Our Goal
One of the aims of Valhalla is to help reforest the world, starting with Guatemala. In the past 100 years half of the planet's forests have been cut down. We are loosing the area of a football field every two seconds and the area of Luxemburg every week. As we lose forest cover, the earth loses its ability to soak up carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen - an essential life performing function for all living things. This severe deforestation is causing land erosion, loss of nutrition in the soil, climate change and loss of genetic material as species disappear.

The Seedling Project
The Valhalla macadamia tree is highly efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide and turning it into water vapor and oxygen. It has a broad and shallow root system that holds water and minerals in the soil. It grows quickly and produces nuts after an average of three years. It can provide food, firewood, and money. Throughout the years Valhalla has given away over 100,000 macadamia seedlings to indigenous people all over Guatemala.

Nuts from the strongest trees are chosen and seeded in an outdoor nursery at the farm. Interested farmers can come to the farm and learn about sustainable agriculture and we try to donate at least a hundred seedlings to each family. In this way we're trying to reverse the slash and burn agricultural trend common to the indigenous of Guatemala.