How one man planted 100,000 trees and built a thriving forest group

After graduating from Bungoma Bible School in 1998, Peter Warui returned to his rural home in Molo, Nakuru County. After years of hustling and bustling around, in 2005 he came across a group of twenty women planting and growing indigenous and exotic tree seedlings to sell to local farmers and the forest department.

Impressed by what the women were doing, Warui collected around 2,000 Orea Africana seeds that had fallen near riparian land following heavy rainfall. “I bought 2,000 polythene bags for Sh500 and planted the seeds in a seedbed, along with some cypress seeds that other farmers in the area had given me,” said Warui, adding that he relied on rainwater and a borehole on the farm to water his seedlings.