Project Pando

Project Pando is a non-profit community nursery, growing mostly native trees, shrubs and wood perennials for various community projects around the triangle. The non-profit was built out of the for-profit business, Leaf & Limb, a B-Corp tree service in Raleigh, North Carolina. Project Pando is aimed at building sustainable communities by engaging the human-nature relationship, with the goal of making native plants accessible to the community and to inspire the use of most ecologically-sustainable landscaping elements.

00:00 Introduction

01:24 Does the name "Project Pando" have any specific meaning?

02:33 What is a community nursery?

04:35 Where is Project Pando located?

09:02 How does Project Pando interact with the community?

12:10 What was the motivation behind starting Project Pando?

16:04 What types of trees, or plants, do you work with?

17:31 Which native trees do you work with the most?

19:36 What is the relationship with Leave & Limb?

22:53 Are there any values that drive the work Project Pando does?

24:21 What problems does this project try to address?

28:09 Can humans help heal nature if we are also the source of its suffering?

31:47 If someone wanted to start a similar project, or community nursery, what kind of tips would you give them?

33:43 How can native tree crops address food security?

43:25 Is there anything else you want us to know about Project Pando?

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