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We received the remaining 1/3 from Gitcoin rounds, Giveth.\nAll of us regroers in also a cryptoartist so a portion of this personal investment comes from tokenized goods and web3 projects.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from funding sources and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "5", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "77", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "answer": "0xC675486888761B33E7115Cc04B5e40B42A96799A", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "@Serste2, @simon_wairiuko, @mlibty, @lenara, @LISSETT36655708\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials for other main team members publicly associated with the project. These may be used to determine eligibility of the project.: ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed that your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG19-Eligibility-50843c8b3ab44ad297731a00efa6e389?pvs=4", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Thanks to the work of our six regroers over the past decade we sensibly increased land cover, water retention and overall ecosystem health of the lands we steward. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please detail how your project meets the Climate Solutions Round eligibility criteria. https://climate-coordination-network.notion.site/Climate-Solutions-Round-Eligibility-bf14ea78d9d24a2f8952cb5270f11b00?pvs=4", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Simon: I was able to plant crops and trees both at Malindi and Nyandarua\u2026 also added another beehive and bought timber to construct more in January.\n\nSerena: I was able to set up solar-powered watering systems for the forest nursery in Maremma and cover part of the farm's annual expenses. I also bought vermicompost and wild birds feed for the winter.\n\nMarko: I planted three more trees and some smaller plants. I started putting stones because at beginning we had no pond, so during dry periods, it collected dew during the night.\n\n", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've received funding in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. You can also include the challenges you've faced. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you minted a Hypercert for your project? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://hypercerts.org/app/view#claimId=0x822f17a9a5eecfd66dbaff7946a8071c265d1d07-18168015852275825502773033665389536577847296", "hidden": false, "question": "If Yes, please provide a link to your Hypercert (https://hypercerts.org/app/gallery-all) ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We use several sets of tools, ranging from direct observation, both situational and seasonal, to Soil observation devices such as Ph/Humidity probes. We also regularly retrieve satellite imaginary for the lands we steward and juxtapose it to archive ones. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from the Climate Coordination Network (CCN) for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Natural Based Solutions", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Europe"], "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based: Choose from: ", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Africa"], "hidden": false, "question": "Primary Location/Region where the project is making an impact: Choose from: ", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 150k sub-round funded by Shell? All grantees must agree to a KYC process to be eligible to receive these funds. ", "questionId": 22}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:829", "title": "regr\u00f2", "logoImg": "bafkreigndmzghx57mawaujko4zevk7m4t4cfw4f6ioijnalrae6jh623t4", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigviu44o2kkr7j4q2qxwwdswuu2mgj3zgrstwsjaatgvo4csygasa", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://projectregro.com", "bannerImg": "bafkreiasksmym6toqjr7j2yljirwg6v5s7jm6uhz4wufqbcfuduyhx5oi4", "createdAt": 1691766849210, "userGithub": "serste2", "credentials": {}, "description": "\n# regr\u00f2 is a Climate-focused project active in seven countries. \n\n## Each regroer stewards the land they own/rent/have access to following principles and techniques from a variety of disciplines and fields:\n\n- Assisted Natural Regeneration\n- Permaculture\n- Agroecology\n- Conservation Agriculture\n- Regenerative Agriculture\n- Carbon Sequestration Science\n- Climate Change Science\n- Indigenous & Local Knowledge\n---\n  ![alt text](https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6b9f236d-d779-4e9a-8275-5050ec642135/preview_foo20211119-31491-kba2yh.png/:/)\n# Introduction\n\nIn Croatia, Italy and Kenya Marko Serena and Simon  are implementing Solar Energy and sustainable water management at different scales.\n\nIn the Italian Alps and Apennines more than 20 hectares of forest are being protected and augmented, while the same is happening in Nyandarua and Golas with local trees and natural guilds.\n\nIn Chile, under the Hornopiren volcano, Lissette is cleaning the forest from abandoned trash and repurposing the materials into compelling sculptures.\n\nIn Germany and Brazil Lenara is growing low-maintenance urban carbon sinks, biodiversity havens inside the city.\n\n*Our aim as growers, farmers and artists is to share knowledge and resources, while augmenting the land we can steward, restore and protect from intensive agriculture, exploitation and pollution.*\n\n---\n\n# The regr\u00f2 projects in depth - Read from the regroers\n\nregr\u00f2 in Kenya\n ![alt text](https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6b9f236d-d779-4e9a-8275-5050ec642135/IMG_8239.jpg/:/rs=w:1280,h:1707)\n**Farmer/Grower: Simon**\n\nMy land is in Kenya, in the Nyandarua region\n\nProject started Nov, 2021\n\nregr\u00f2 collaboration started Nov, 2021\n\n---\n\n# Gitcoin Grant Round 18 Update\n\n\n**What I was able to achieve/build/buy thanks to your support:**\n\nI was able to introduce 3k catfish in my 300 sq. meters pond (surface area). Previously the pond was just empty and served as a water pan. I was also able to introduce water plants. \nOn another small 30sqm surface area pond, I introduced tilapia: bought pipes and fittings, an aerator and a pump to keep the water as fresh as possible. Also started experimenting with a small aquaponic system.\nDuring a previous drought most of my young trees couldn\u2019t make it. With the help of Gitcoin grant I was able to replace my small bamboos, 470 eucalyptus, bought 200 cypresses and 300 prunus africana; an indigenous species very useful especially for medicinal purposes. \n\n**How is my project evolving, the future I could grow:**\n\nHaving a bee colony in one of the three beehives on land, most of the fruits and crops in our garden is pollinated 50% by that colony. My garden is a 4 portion \u00bc acre with sunflowers and squash on one portion, brassicas on the other, legumes on the third portion and nightshades on the last one. The intention is to maintain a consistent annual crop rotation routine so no crop of the same family will grow in one portion for four years. I want to have more colonies, more beehives as the future of our world's food security  depends on our little yellow striped friends.\nBearing that in mind, we do our best to protect them by never using chemicals to spray the fruits or the crops as pesticides. Pretty much everything is organic. In the future, we want to introduce useful plants along the fences as both a food hedge (fedge) and a natural pest-control hedge. \n\n---\n\nregr\u00f2 in Italy\n![alt text](https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6b9f236d-d779-4e9a-8275-5050ec642135/4.jpg/:/rs=w:1280,h:962)\n**Farmer/Grower: Serena** \n\nMy land is in Italy, in the Tuscany and Lombardy regions\n\nProject started Feb, 2015\n\nregr\u00f2 collaboration started Apr, 2017\n\n---\n\n# Gitcoin Grant Round 18 Update\n\n\n**What I was able to achieve/build/buy thanks to your support:**\n\nEstablish the pilot Solar-powered watering station, buy/produce seeds and winter nutriment for wildlife in 4 feeding stations for 24 months, grow 130 new oaklings from genetically diverse seed, clean up two hectares of polluted forest in both Apennine and Alps, harvest from the pilot oyster mushrooms indoor cultivation + container harvest of potatoes and onions, grow the wild and heirloom seed bank, transform a neglected space into a micro synergic garden for biodiversity, advocating and convincing a neighboring olive trees orchard owner to transition to no-till/grassing, stopping this way the great soil erosion and biodiversity loss on half the hilltop. \n\n**How is my project evolving, the future I could grow:**\n\nI\u2019m researching and designing a new plot in the Alps, where ancient terraces once hosted community-grew food forests. The vegetation testifies a very close relationship between the locals and the woods, as villagers are still able to recall intercrops under the chestnut/walnut/hazelnut canopies. Furthering the exploration, I\u2019ll gather soil samples and prepare to produce and apply natural soil conditioners where needed. These restored territories could offer several crops, some from the local tradition and some new: buckwheat, potatoes, cabbage, blueberry and wild strawberry will have endemic shrubs and herbs as growing companions, such as heather, pellitory, nettle and mugwort. Beside restoring and enhancing the historical value of these ancient food forests, a very interesting system we could favour and then observe in this plot is the mycorrhizal symbiosis in Ericaceous, here as endemic blueberries and heathers. \n\nAt regr\u00f2 in Maremma, Tuscany, the main goal for the near future is to secure the 23 hectares of recovering forest from hunters, gatherers and polluters. The most endangered area has been subjected to cuttings in its perimeter to allow access to game: a general population decline in boar, roe deer, mourning dove and corvids is visible after the hunting season, while a recent decree, designed to curb the wildlife\u2019s assaults to civilization, has declared \u2018hunting ground\u2019 even highly protected areas in the country. Many of the species we try to protect in Maremma are currently listed as at high risk of extinction. Your contribution will help build, grow and maintain borders to keep exploiters outside the forest while preserving and restoring wildlife corridors.\n\n**The regr\u00f2 animal sanctuary**\n\nA recent change in legislation will allow us to open a sanctuary for animals rescued from the food chain and other exploitative systems. We are in the process of researching the necessary documentation and educating ourselves about the needs these survivors will have, and how to ensure them a safe place to thrive. The structures we will build for the animals will reuse materials we found on site from the previous owners, and locally sourced natural materials. \n\n---\n\nregr\u00f2 in Croatia\n![alt text](https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6b9f236d-d779-4e9a-8275-5050ec642135/e8RhKxwJ%20(1).jpg/:/rs=w:1280,h:1707)\n**Farmer/Grower: Marko**\n\nMy land is in Croatia, in the Istria region\n\nProject started May 2021\n\nregr\u00f2 collaboration started Apr, 2022\n\n---\n\n# Gitcoin Grant Round 18 Update\n\n\n**What I was able to achieve/build/buy thanks to your support:**\nSummer 2023: Arrange and buy things for watering, installed one water collector from the roof of tools container, get various water plants, arrange a garden for eatables, plant various plants and flowers, get e trimmer and chainsaw branches cutter.\n\n**How is my project evolving, the future I could grow:**\n\nFor 2023/2024: Planting more trees and making the garden part bigger and fencing it, fight the invasive blackberries and get some barn manure. Get more water plants and make more floating islands. Mulch a part I can\u2019t cut by hand, build few more compost sites, get more local wild smaller plants to grow there, build constructions for climbing plants, create more micro stone-zones for agaves, succulents and similar. Install two water containers near the garden and install the watering tubes through the garden. Build and repair some drywalls. Start making sculptures using cut branches, old clothes and cement, paint the tools container. \n\n---\n\n# Welcoming Lissette and Lenara\n\nThis round regr\u00f2 presents two new projects: \n\n**In Chile, Lissette's project**\n  ![alt text](https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6b9f236d-d779-4e9a-8275-5050ec642135/klpUQ_Il.jpg/:/rs=w:1280,h:640)\nCleaning natural habitats from trash, creating multi-media sculptures with the salvaged materials and documenting her relationship with the forest through paintings and photographs.\n---\n**In Germany and Brazil, Lenara's project**\n  ![alt text](https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/6b9f236d-d779-4e9a-8275-5050ec642135/regro%20-%20garden%20banner.jpg/:/rs=w:1280,h:640/qt=q:28)\n## Urban experiments for carbon sequestration \n\n**Goals:**\n- provide carbon sink and biodiversity increase together with urban liveability advantages\n- scale suitable to small urban land plots\n- low maintenance, long lifetime\n\n**Process:**\n- research\n- implementation\n- measure impact at regular intervals\n\n**Pilot plots and projects:**\n- DIY green roof (Germany)\n- lawn alternatives comparison (Brazil)\n\n---\n---\n---\n\n\nPlease, consider visiting [our website](https://projectregro.com) to enjoy the curated photo galleries.\n\nThank you!\n\n                                                                         the regr\u00f2 project\n ", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "projectregro"}, "recipient": "0x0722A26283c29dd82982718d748baea13259E9A3"}}