Fundación
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Would you like to sow with us?

“Education is the best investment in progress: forming agents of change who return to lift up their community.”
— Our founder

The Foundation does not take monetary donations. What we sow with the community is built with knowledge, time and supplies that support our gardens. These are the ways to join:

Volunteering

  • Specialised volunteering: share your profession or craft with the programmes.
  • Workshops and knowledge: from science to trades, knowledge can be sown too.
  • Planting and workdays at the school gardens and the Bonplandia Laboratory.

Supplies for our gardens

  • Seeds, seedlings and fertiliser for the 14 school gardens of the Tierra Programme.
  • Gardening tools, hoses, shade cloth, mesh and timber for planting beds.
  • Materials for the laboratory and the classrooms: from magnifying glasses to botany books.

Institutional allies

  • Universities: research, internships and community science alongside the Bonplandia Laboratory.
  • Environmental authorities and NGOs: conservation and environmental education alliances.
  • International organisations: joint programmes with our parent foundation, Lotus Children’s Foundation.

What support looks like

Doña Ligia shares her knowledge with volunteers next to the garden seedlingsBiofertiliser workshop at the El Patio gardenCommunity workshop in a classroom with the flags of Colombia and the United KingdomVolunteers with gloves planting in a garden bedVolunteers preparing the planting beds under the shade clothThe community gathered in the garden during the volunteering dayA volunteer crouching to plant seedlings at the El Patio gardenTwo boys water the plants at the school garden led by doña Ligia

How to get your support to us

Write to us and we will coordinate together: every garden and every workshop has different needs, and we would rather talk first than simply receive. We reply personally.

Write to us