Wovoka

Westhoff Elementary · Kindergarten Career Day · 22 Oct 2026

Thanks for visiting the forest table.

Your child met a forester today. Here is what they saw, how to plant the seeds they brought home, and what we do.

What your child saw

Trees grow our treats, and clean the air.

  1. How a tree works Trees breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. The carbon they keep is stored in the wood, so a tree is a carbon piggy bank.
  2. Sniff and guess Vanilla, coffee, cinnamon and chocolate. Each one grows on or near a tree: vanilla is a vine that climbs trees, coffee grows in their shade, cinnamon is bark and cacao pods grow on the trunk.
  3. What a forester does Listen to the communities who live on the land, plant seedlings together, measure every tree for the carbon it stores, and build stations to dry coffee and vanilla so farmers can sell them.
  4. Where we work Mindoro, Camarines Norte and Bukidnon in the Philippines: forest by the rivers, mangroves on the coast and green hills ready for new trees.

The seeds in the bag

Pashiiy, California chia.

A native wildflower of the Walnut area. The Tongva people, who have lived in this basin for thousands of years, ate its seeds and used them as medicine. It is the same idea we work by overseas: the people of the land know which plants feed and heal.

Plant them this fall

  1. Find a sunny spot. Bare soil or a pot, in full sun, away from the lawn sprinklers.
  2. Sprinkle and pat. Scatter everything in the bag. The sand is mixed in to spread the seeds out. Press the soil gently; don't bury them deep.
  3. Let the rain do the rest. Water once, then let winter rain take over. Sprouts usually come up within two weeks, and blue-purple pompom flowers bloom in spring.

The bag has sand in it, so plant the seeds rather than eat them.

For the grown-ups

What Wovoka does.

Wovoka is a natural capital operator. We restore degraded tropical land with the communities who hold it: native forest, agroforestry and mangroves, and the products, markets and carbon that make that land pay.

Our partners hold the land rights: Indigenous communities under ancestral domain titles, and people's organisations under community-based forest management agreements. Nothing is developed before the community's free, prior and informed consent.

In Oriental Mindoro and Camarines Norte we are planting native trees and mangroves with GCash GForest, more than a million trees from 2026 to 2030. Our Mindoro project is listed on Verra's pipeline as VCS 6023.

See the projects How we work

How it fits together

From these landscapes.

The land we restore grows things people buy. Each brand sells on its own site.

Coffee growing under tall shade trees on a smallholder farm in Oriental Mindoro
From Mindoro, Philippines

Mindoro Coffee

Robusta, Arabica, Excelsa and Liberica from smallholder farms in Oriental Mindoro, shade-grown under trees, with processing at origin in Roxas.

Visit Mindoro Coffee (opens in a new tab)

For families and classrooms

Tammy & Friends, from Carbon Kids

A comic for ages 4 to 8 set in the Mindoro forest, with free games to play on the TV. The first book is still being made.

Play the games (opens in a new tab)