Wawee Valley Project Update #4

THE MODEL FARM HAS BEEN COMPLETED!

Although there were a few bumps in the road due to personnel changes, the Wawee Valley Foundation team ultimately managed to establish the model farm with regular monitoring by a locally appointed coffee expert. The agroforestry design surrounding the hen house will provide various income streams, from short-term to long-term gains; it is an economically sustainable and climate-proof model for the valley’s communities.

The farmer manager and the locally appointed coffee expert will continue to host training and harvesting workshops for community farmers, empowering more farmers to become stewards of the land.

In addition to buyers in Singapore and the US, the team is looking for more collaboration across the region to push their products. Their aspirations to make regenerative-organically grown products more accessible to the world are truly astounding, and we are proud to be supporting projects that regenerate the supply chain.

Soil samples have been collected and are now undergoing testing at Maejo University, giving us more information on the quality of the soil and its current soil organic carbon (SOC) content. We can’t wait to see the happenings and changes below ground in this beautiful forest.

While we understand soil health and SOC could take years to rebuild, the reNature team offered a glimpse of the project’s carbon sequestration estimate. The Wawee Valley project is estimated to sequester 9,785 tons in the next 10 years. Same as our other regional, reNature-led projects. This estimation is based on literature reviews and their research database, identifying the number of crops planted, their biomass remains, and carbon fraction potential in 10 years.

Stay tuned for our next update to see the soil test results!