GROW AHEAD

Grow Ahead helps aid reforestation projects run by small scale farmers. These projects combat climate change and benefit communities by relying on regenerative farming practices. Pyzel Surfboards donates $1 for every surfboard sold globally to help combat climate change, offset our carbon footprint, and fund small scale farmers who support reforestation and education among their local community. 

The most recent project we've funded with Grow Ahead is reforestation in Brazil with native and fruit trees, which guarantees healthy food, recovery of native forests, care for natural resources (water, land, biodiversity) and build peasant and popular feminism and income generation for peasant families. To learn more on this initiative, check out our blog post on Grow Ahead: Women Led Reforestation in Brazil.

In 2021, each Pyzel sold globally allowed us to donate funds to a project spearheaded by the indegenous people descended from the Lacandona, Ch'ol, Tsotsil and Tzeltal Mayans located in the Selva Lacandona (Lacandona Jungle) in Chiapas, Mexico. The Nueva Palestina community, and much of the surrounding area, is being impacted by water scarcity due to deforestation. This project planted 25,000 trees, focusing on using traditional Mayan agroforestry systems, to boost biodiversity, support soil health and restore freshwater to the lagoons, rivers and springs of the Yaxal Lum K'inal or the Lacandona Jungle.

In 2020, we also helped fund reforestation and beekeeping in Guatemala. This project worked with 200 members of a local indigenous cooperative to establish trees and plants on their family farms that will serve as coffee shade trees and food for bees, while supporting organic food production and more biodiverse farms. Learn and read more by checking out our blog post on Grow Ahead: Reforestation and Beekeeping in Guatemala.