Environmental Responsibility
Our vision at Themba Trees is to help preserve the environment by adhering to the following practises:
- Recycling all the nursery’s waste (glass & plastic etc)
- Shredding and composting office waste paper
- Composting all organic material
- Composting all our cuttings and green waste
- Reducing carbon emissions by using locally sourced materials
Social Responsibility:
The heart of Themba Trees is to give hope and sense of place to its employees and organisations that seek to improve the environment and well-being of individuals. We strive to impart to our local youth, the importance of the conservation of our environment. To realise this vision, Themba Trees supports numerous Environmental groups and NGO’s. Themba Trees also creates awareness in our surrounding communities for the Arbor Week by facilitating the distribution and planting of trees to schools, NGO’s and municipalities. Each institution receives indigenous trees, a bag of compost and bone meal as well as instructions for planting and caring for the trees.
Please see the list below for the current and recent projects that we have participated in.
| Date | Project |
|---|---|
| May 2011 | Themba Trees donates trees for the Elgin Valley Tourism Barn Dance |
| March 2011 | Themba Trees donates trees for prizes for Elgin United Church Golf Day |
| February 2011 | Trees are donated to Applewood Preparatory school for their Founders’ day |
| 2008 – 2011 | Themba Trees gives advice on their grounds and donates trees to Agapé, an NGO in Grabouw providing homes, schooling and medical care for severely disabled, sick and abandoned children. Click here to view Agapé's newsletter. |
| Arbor Day 2010 | Themba Trees donates trees and gives environmental education talks at tree planting ceremonies at each of the following schools & NGO’s in Grabouw: Agapé Site 1, 2, 3 & 4, Ikwesi Educare, Siphile Sonke, Thembacare, Village of Hope, Kingsway college, Grabouw High School, Applewood Primary School, Maxonia Primêr & De Rust Futura. |
| October 2010 | Themba Trees becomes a tree partner with Greenpop in a project of greening Cape Town. Greenpop is an organization with the aim of planting indigenous and fruit trees in under-greened schools, creches and community centres. Greenpop involves communities by getting them to join the ‘Treevolution’ by gifting a tree or volunteering to help plant trees. |
| November 2010 | Themba Trees donates an avenue of Pin Oaks to Applewood school |
| August 2010 | At a GreenCab Event held at Old MacDaddy in Grabouw. GreenCab is Cape Town’s only carbon neutral transport service and they planted trees donated by Themba Trees at their award ceremony to reward companies within the Tourism industry taking leaps to reduce their carbon footprint. |
Themba Trees also networks with (and is in progress of partnering with) some of the following organizations:
- CarbonFree
- With a CarbonFree card you can play a part in the restoration of the ecosystem by having an indigenous tree planted in a protected sanctuary. You will receive GPS co-ordinates to watch it grow and earn reward points which can go towards planting additional trees. For more information and to purchase your CarbonFree card online please got to www.carbonworx.co.za
- Food & Trees for Africa
