active pilotUttarakhand · India5 farmers · 96 trees

Pay a farmer.
Plant a tree.
Watch it root.

Your money goes directly to a farmer who plants — and tends — one specific tree for you, in a place that scientifically needs it. You get to watch it grow.

100% of your money reaches the farmer. We never touch it.
100%
direct to farmer
Native
species only
7 days
to photo proof
verified planting
Tree #PT-014 · day 312
growing
Banj oak
Tended by Sunita-ji, Almora · 2.4m tall
survived year
01
Sunita
Sunita Devi
Dhauladevi, Almora
"Your oak made it through its first dry season."
Before you give

Where does your money
actually go?

Give to most charities and it vanishes behind a wall — no photo, no proof, no way to know a tree was ever planted.

Here, every rupee goes straight to a farmer, and you watch your tree grow — in dated photos — for the next twenty years.

Did a tree actually get planted?
Is it still alive — or already dead?
Or did my money just… vanish?
the questions you never get to ask

How it works
The direct model

No middlemen.
One farmer, one tree.

Traditional reforestation NGOs lose 20–40% of every donation to overhead before a single sapling is bought. We're not a charity — we're a directory. Your payment goes straight to the farmer's bank account. We make the introduction and verify the photo.

Trade-off, openly: no tax deduction yet(that needs charity registration we haven't done). If you want a write-off, use a registered NGO. If you want every rupee to reach the soil, use us.

How a typical donation splits
Traditional NGO
58% farmer22% ops20% fundraising
PlantTree.life
100% farmer0% us
We're funded separately — not by skimming yours.
The science-first part

Right tree.
Right place.

Every plot is screened on six measurable axes before a single seedling goes in the ground. Only native species. Only community land. We share the science with farmers — it's a playbook, not a gate.

Where we plant · pilot phase

Six districts. One state.
One thing at a time.

We're starting in Uttarakhand — 0 districts actively planting, 0 field-visited and preparing, 0 under desk research.

0 active
0 field-visited
0 researching

The people doing the work

One tree.
One farmer's afternoon.
One acre of forest closer.

Start with a single tree. We'll show you exactly where it went, who planted it, and how it's doing — for the next twenty years.

Pilot tally
96
trees planted
5
farmers paid
142
donors
100%
direct