Tree Planting Ecocert Creation

Rifai Sicilia created its first ecocredit with the help of Silvi App dMRV using hypercerts. This ecocert represents the 2024 tree plantings across the network of reforestation projects. This ecocert will be put up for sale as part of the Celo green money initiative. Proceeds from…

Mutual Credit Onboarding

Onboarded two new mutual credit vouchers to the Rifai Sicilia pool including Oasi - can be redeemed for permaculture design, installation and maintenance services, and BTRFLY - can be redeemed for farm goods from Butterfly Hill Farm including seeds, trees from the nursery, and fu…

Monthly Members Call (February)

Our February meeting call with 9 members in attendance.

Launched new website

We redid the entire website and now have a new landing page with links to social media, and a better description of who we are and what we do. We also have a link for direct donations

Onboard 10 Syntropic Agroforestry Farms

With the Octant grant funding, the plan is expand from our syntropic agroforestry demonstration site to 10 more sites. The ideal location will be a young family farm that wants to transition to syntropic agroforestry. We will select the sites to be distributed throughout the isla…

Plant 1000 trees in Syntropic Agroforestry System

With winter and spring coming up it is time to plant the trees that will go in our syntropic agroforestry system at our flagship experimental site Butterfly Hill in Castellammare del Golfo Sicily. With the help of the community and volunteers we will host mutual aid workdays, wor…

Winter and Spring Planting

The planting of 1000 trees in winter and spring along with the installation of irrigation along with preparing the soil with tilling and amendments.

Q2 2024 Milestone UPdate

We onboarded 20 new members into our community through our fire preparedness video calls. We have potted another 500 moringa trees in our new nursery We have laid irrigation lines for 1 hectare of land in the syntropic community food forest. We have created educational and market…

Training Session 1

Held an onboarding training session using coordinating the olive harvest using the Committment Pool

Irrigation Installation

As summers are becoming increasingly hot and dry, it's imperative to have an efficient way to irrigate the newly planted syntropic agroforestry system especially in the early years as the trees need time to establish their roots. As we are introducing tropical trees like avocados…

Write Article on Bioregional DAOs

Create a high level overview of how to design Bioregional DAOs using blockchain technology following both the BioFi and Permaculture Design. Create a nested framework for Rifai Sicilia to operate the portfolio of projects and describe how value flows through the ecosystem includi…

Plan and Organize Syntropic Agroforestry Expansion

With funding from the Octant round our goal is to expand our operations of syntropic agroforestry and ReFi toolkit to more farms. To first achieve that goal we will need to organize as a core team to on how to best go about that including selecting the right partner farms, procur…

Constructed Greenhouse

A portion of the funds raised was used to purchase the material and pay for labor for the construction of the greenhouse at the Butterfly Hill Syntropic Agroforestry Farm. The greenhouse can hold up to 1200 treelings in pots and can seed over 5000 trees in trays.

Greenhouse Revenue

First 100 euros of revenue from the greenhouse that was built in the summer 2024 following our first 1st Ma Earth Grant allocation. We sold 20 moringa trees to a rifai sicilia community member that will be used in her syntropic agroforestry system. We met Marianne at the syntropi…

Charmverse Knowledge Repository

One of our biggest barriers to community adoption is the knowledge gap. Over the past month we have worked to create an online space where we can organize training materials about regenerstive finance and all the tools we are using in italian language. In addition to the knowledg…

Syntropic Agroforestry Planting

Completed the late fall planting of 285 olive trees and 100 almond trees at our demonstration farm site in Sicily.

Created the first Commitment Pool

Created the commitment pool on Sarafu network and added the initial 500 cUSD seed funding from the Celo grant along with matching funds from Grassroots Economics

GG18 - Climate Round

GG20 - Climate Round

GG21 - Climate Solutions Round

Regenerative Land Projects

Land Regenerators

Celo GG20 Climate Bonus Round

Our project was selected to be part of the GG20 Celo Public Goods Climate Bonus Round . Celo Claim: Your project uses the Celo Network to coordinate its operations (such as cStable payments, a Celo SAFE, Celo Hypercerts etc...) As a regional community focused on ecological regene…

GG21 - Real World Builders

Regen Coordination Global

ReFi Mediterranean GG23

Octant - Epoch 7

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