Forest Pack Initiative
The Forest Pack Initiative is Green Gold Social’s innovative climate solution and social enterprise, designed to make reforestation and agroforestry accessible, scalable, and community-driven while generating income to sustain our environmental work.
Why the Forest Pack?
Traditional tree seedling production is costly, water-intensive, and logistically challenging, especially in dry areas like Chongwe. Seedlings require constant watering and careful transportation, often limiting how far restoration efforts can reach.
The Forest Pack solves this challenge by shifting reforestation upstream, from transporting seedlings to empowering individuals and institutions to grow trees themselves, wherever they are.
What is a Forest Pack?
Each Forest Pack is a 1kg package containing over 2,500 indigenous tree seeds, carefully selected to support climate action, sustainable agriculture, and food security.
Seed varieties include:
- Musangu (Faidherbia albida)
- Gliricidia Sepium
- Mutondo (Julbernardia globiflora)
- Acacia
- Musekese
- Tamarind
- Baobab
Clients can also customize their own forest packs by selecting the seed varieties most relevant to their land, farming system, or restoration goals.
Pricing Options
- ZMW500 Forest Pack-4 seed varieties
- ZMW1000 Forest Pack-7 seed varieties
This flexibility makes restoration affordable for small-scale farmers while attractive to institutions, landowners, and urban households.
Climate and Livelihood Impact
The Forest Pack delivers dual impact:
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Supports reforestation of species heavily cut for illegal timber and charcoal, especially Mutondo and Musangu
- Promotes carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery, and land restoration
- Enables agroforestry systems that improve soil fertility and reduce reliance on chemical fertilizers
- Economic and Social Impact
- Creates income for indigenous women and youth seed collectors across Zambia, including Chongwe, Serenje, Livingstone, Choma, Mongu, Chama and beyond
- Generates green jobs for youth involved in sorting, packing and labeling
- Supports local Zambian businesses supplying packaging and branding materials
- Generated unrestricted income for Green Gold Social to sustain reforestation and climate programs
Who uses the Forest Packs?
Our customers include:
- Small-scale farmers adopting agroforestry
- Individuals restoring undeveloped land
- Schools, churches and institutions greening their spaces
- Climate-conscious individuals supporting restoration efforts
To date we have sold over 20 forest packs, with growing demand beyond Lusaka and inquiries from Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, and Kenya.
Scaling the Innovation
What began as a survival strategy has become a scalable climate enterprise. With additional support, we aim to:
- Expand seed varieties to up to 20 indigenous and climate resilient species
- Develop an online ordering and payment platform
- Scale regional and cross border distribution
- Strengthen income opportunities for seed collectors and youth
Our Broader Impact
Through the Forest Pack Initiative and our wider restoration work, Green Gold Social is:
- Planting 20,000 indigenous trees
- Restoring 1 square kilometer of degraded land affected by illegal timber harvesting and charcoal production
- Advancing community-led climate action and sustainable agriculture in Chongwe District
The Forest Pack Initiative proves that climate solutions can be practical, inclusive, and economically viable, placing restoration power directly in the hands of communities.
