Canada: Urban farmer gives away Christmas trees to thank community
A farmer in Toronto is in his eighth year of giving away Christmas trees for those less fortunate.
City News
Dec 11, 2023
Excerpt:
Each year, Jessey Njau’s Zawadi Farms purchases fresh trees from a friend’s forestry farm and loads them onto his truck to donate.
He posts on Reddit and asks users to DM him for the location details, in exchange for one tree they’re able to pick up for free on a first come, first serve basis.
Njau came to urban farming via the tech industry, and the tree giveaways started as a way to give back to the farming community for the generosity they showed in getting him started.
“(They were) really generous with the knowledge, the tools, the resources for me to learn and adapt and become a farmer on my own,” Njau says.
“And at the end of… the first season, we had a bunch of Christmas trees that I wanted to use as a way of saying thank you to the community.”
He usually gets around 20 trees each year. When I spoke with Njau, he said he had about seven left.
