FREEING PEOPLE FROM HUNGER
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Growing To Give is a registered 501c3 non-profit that develops projects and partnerships to free people from hunger across the country and around the world.
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We love trees, and we plant them in living patterns that accelerate healing. Our Spiral Tree Farms use sacred geometry, ecological science, and logical forestry to restore land, capture carbon, and build biodiverse habitats that thrive. Trees are climate engines: they absorb CO₂ and release oxygen, cool air and water, anchor soil, recharge groundwater, shelter wildlife, and lift human wellbeing. Yet forests worldwide are stressed by shifting rainfall, hotter summers, colder snaps, pests, fires, and floods. Scattered plantings and tiny bare-root plugs too often fail—many don’t survive their first winter—so we’re breaking the mold with a system designed for rapid establishment, fast canopy development, and durable, self-reinforcing ecosystems.
Instead of straight rows, we plant in Archimedean spirals that optimize spacing, airflow, light capture, and water distribution. Drones map each site, overlaying perfect spiral geometries; autonomous markers and laser points flag exact planting spots so trees are placed with millimetric consistency. Spirals act like biological flywheels: roots interlock, mycorrhizal networks connect individuals into a nutrient-sharing web, and the pattern itself moderates wind and heat while channeling rainfall into the root zone. The result is higher survival, faster growth, and earlier canopy closure—critical to shading soil, suppressing weeds, and stabilizing local climate.
We transplant tall, nursery-hardened tree seedlings—typically 10–15 feet—grown in our patented pyramidal (conal) pots. This form mirrors natural root architecture, preventing circling and transplant shock while eliminating the costly “up-potting” steps that can damage roots. With robust root systems already primed for field conditions, these trees establish quickly, push vigorous leader growth, and withstand browsing better as their crowns rise beyond grazing height. Within a few seasons, we create an instant forest where a functioning forest layer appears: canopy overhead, shrubs and forbs beneath, fungi and microbes weaving the soil food web below.
Speed matters. A fast-closing canopy accelerates carbon drawdown and microclimate recovery. By deploying tall transplants in spiral configurations, early-year biomass and soil-carbon gains can be dramatically higher than plug-planting baselines—often an order of magnitude or more in the first year—because larger trees photosynthesize more, drop more litter, and activate fungal networks sooner. As spirals knit together, carbon storage scales naturally with biodiversity, water retention, and habitat quality.
Spiral plantations are tailored to place:
• Conifer spirals (softwoods) for rapid, climate-tolerant cover, typically planted ~7 feet on center and thinned strategically in later years to favor the strongest, straightest stems.
• Mixed hardwood spirals that interleave compatible species—some sun-loving, others shade-tolerant to share defenses, stagger phenology, and build resilience mirroring how wild forests organize: diversity reduces pest pressure, spreads risk, and creates layered habitat for birds, pollinators, amphibians, and mammals.
1. Site intelligence: soils, hydrology, grade, wind, heat islands, and access are mapped.
2. Drone geometry: fixed-wing mapping defines spiral centers and radii; rotor drones drop physical markers and laser points at each planting location.
3. Groundworks: augers drill clean holes on the marks; amendments and mycorrhizal inoculants are added as needed.
4. Transplanting: tall seedlings are set at depth, backfilled, watered-in, and mulched.
5. Spiral ground covers: circular weed-suppressing mats are pinned to hold moisture, boost soil temperature in cool seasons, and protect the emerging fungal network.
6. Aftercare: low-loss spiral irrigation, root-zone fertigation (where appropriate), and living mulch strips speed establishment while sensors guide weaning from irrigation.
Our goal is not just trees—it’s the underground city that sustains them. In spiral patterns, roots and fungi connect sooner, sharing water, carbon, and signals across individuals. This “wood-wide web” gets the forest talking improving drought tolerance, nutrient cycling, and disease resistance. By designing for the network, not the individual tree, we create forests that self-organize and self-repair.
Spiral Tree Farms are working forests and living sculptures—rewilding with purpose. They stitch corridors for wildlife, buffer streams, quiet winds, lift pollinators, and provide edible and medicinal understories where appropriate. Urban and peri-urban spirals cool neighborhoods and invite people back into relationship with land. Rural spirals stabilize eroding soils, shelter crops, and can be managed for timber, non-timber products, or community use—always with regeneration as the first principle.
• Geometry: Spirals balance spacing, light, and wind while harvesting rain.
• Physiology: Tall transplants leap ahead, outpacing stress and predation.
• Ecology: Diversity plus mycorrhizae equals resilience.
• Technology: Drones, sensors, and precise layouts cut waste and cost.
• Stewardship: Local training builds capacity for pruning, thinning, seed saving, and data-driven care..
You are welcome to support in whatever way feels right for you.
Join us in bringing the Spiral Tree Farm & Forest Initiative to life by becoming a valued sponsor. Your contributions—whether through in-kind donations such as irrigation materials, off-grid renewable power equipment, soil, plants, or seeds—will directly support our mission to transform underutilized land into flourishing, sustainable spiral forests. Together, we can create a thriving forest ecosystem that nurtures people, the land and the environment. To explore sponsorship opportunities, contact us today at sponsors@growingtogive.org.
Your $25 donation helps hand-collect rare and resilient tree seeds from ancient, thriving specimens around the world. These include the Black Locust from centuries-old farm field groves, the nearly-lost American Chestnut preserved in surviving old-growth stands, and the endangered Rosewood, gathered with care from protected mother trees in the Brazilian Rainforest.
Helps us hand-collect tree seeds from ancient forest around the world.
Preserves seed from endangered trees.
Protects the forests of tomorrow.
Your $100 donation helps plant a spiral forest that grows faster, knits together more quickly, and self-organizes into resilient ecosystems that cools the land, shelters wildlife, and produces food, medicine, and clean air. Your support creates a powerful ripple with each loop of the spiral forest strengthening the next.
Grows straight, trunked tree saplings to create a 10-15-foot-tall forest the first year it's planted.
Builds patterned weed suppressing ground covers.
Your $100 gift helps build the spiral "farm a sacred" geometry system designed to maximize yields, conserve water and fertilizer, and regenerate the land it grows on. By stepping into the spiral, you’re supporting a smarter, cleaner way to grow food—and ensuring that every loop of the system feeds both people and the planet. With your help, we are changing the shape of agriculture.
Helps plant a spiral forest.
Spread the word on social media, in your community, or among friends and family to help us reach more communities that need support.
When you give to Growing to Give, you're not just donating — you're sowing the seeds of transformation.
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