Grow a Tree, Centurion

Grow a Tree was launched in April 2008 and offers the following products and services:

Grow A Tree (GAT) Starter Packs
The packs provide everything needed to grow your own indigenous South African tree from a seed. They retail at R50 each. Included is a coloured hessian bag, 1kg of compost, unique number for logging GPS coordinates, and instructions on how to plant and care for the tree.
These trees are fantastic for enhancing biodiversity in South Africa since there are 27 different indigenous varieties to choose from, each species with its own Grow A Tree nickname and poem.
Over 30 000 ‘Grow A Tree’ Baby Starter Packs have been sold to date. They are popular for weddings and corporate events and are stocked by Pick n Pay, Builders Warehouse and other retailers.

Sponsor A Tree (SAT)
and companies over the years through the ‘Sponsor a Tree’ programme. The cost is R20 per tree and trees are grown for a year before being planted out at a beneficiary’s site- mostly schools around Gauteng. Trees being grown include Wild Plum, Monkey Thorn and Pompom Tree. When the trees are planted at the beneficiary sites Grow A Tree ensures that the tree holes are already dug before delivery, to ensure that the trees will indeed get planted at that location.

Kids Learning Kits (KLK)
For R10 per child Grow A Tree runs workshops teaching children how to grow a tree from seed. Grow A Tree has worked with over 4 000 school children in 40 different schools over the years. The interactive workshop is fun and inspiring and includes a lesson on the ‘3 P’s’- patience, persistence and perseverance. After a brief lesson on the trees and their importance, the kids get planting. Each kid is encouraged to give their tree a name to further deepen their emotional connection to the trees. In the spirit of multiculturalism and respect for indigenous culture, the children are taught to plant a tree in no less than 5 languages- Zulu, Sotho, Xhosa, English and Afrikaans.

• the entire South Africa

• Afrikaans
• Spanish
• Zulu