29/07/2025
🌱🌍 ¡Felices 7 años a Contour Lines ! 🌍🌱
Nos llena de orgullo ser parte de este movimiento que transforma realidades desde la raíz.
Desde Frutas del Mundo nos honra contribuir con más de 600,000 árboles frutales injertados, que no solo son el motor productivo de los sistemas agroforestales, sino también una esperanza de ingresos sostenibles para las familias rurales. 🌳💚
Agradecemos profundamente la mención a nuestro equipo de vivero, liderado por Jason Mayen , y al departamento de postcosecha Daniela Mayén Fuentes que seguimos fortaleciendo día a día, con el compromiso de seguir impulsando un desarrollo rural regenerativo, justo y con impacto real. 🌾✨
¡Que sigan creciendo las líneas de contorno y los frutos de este gran trabajo colectivo! 🙌
🌳𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝟳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁.🌳
Seven years ago today, in a trailer office on a Virgina farm, Sean Dixon-Sullivan asked Tommy Turok how to create a 501c3. He knew how. After two hours of online forms and one pot of coffee, Contour Lines was born.
One simple goal, plant as many feet of Contour Lines as possible.
Sick of seeing orgs that waste time with meetings, meeting about meetings, then meeting about that meeting they previously met on, just to finally draft a proposal... that would require more meetings; sick of orgs that revolve around "educating" only to preach their so-called superior way to farmers who would then go home and never implement it, or "planting projects" that only drop off trees to take a photo and then never return, only for the trees to die; sick of orgs that waste tons of funds with offices full of admin staff, teams of who-knows-who driving around in fancy pickups, achieving who-knows-what; sick of what Sean sees daily visiting communities in Guate—the same old story from campesino families who have seen nonprofits offering, paternalizing, wasting money and achieveing nothing, committing the same error for decades, still, since Roland Bunch published "Two Ears of Corn" on this exact subject over 30 years ago.
Tommy and Sean knew a shift in nonprofit development has been needed.
For 7 years they've scaled a work model. Low overheads, no pickups, no offices, just Tommy and Sean on the admin side and a team of bad@ss local techs getting **it done. Contour Lines.
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𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲:
🌳Providing the productive backbone of our agroforestry sites and the main incentive for campesinos to plant them—the grafted fruit trees, over 600k to date—thanks toDwight Carter of Frutas del Mundo, his nursery crew led by Jason and post-harvest dept. led by Daniela.
🌳Guiding us with the wisdom and experience in how to organize and motivate rural communities, thanks to Abelardo Pop, our original field technician, and now supervisor and trainer of the rest of the field teams.
🌳Doing the work, from training the families, designing and planting the sites, to monitoring, gathering data and coordinating the harvests—our field technicians are the next generation of leader, making this regenerative transition happen across Guatemala. Thanks to Ronaldo, Wilson, Diego and Victor, and their up-and-coming sub-techs, now leading teams of their own.
🌳Supporting from afar, yet just as essential, thanks to our donors. One Tree Planted, Fundación Mundo Azul, I Give Trees, Ecosystem Restoration Communities, Agroforestry Regeneration Communities, Abundant Earth Foundation, Trees That Feed Foundation, One Earth
And bringing income to the families restoring their land with Contour Lines agroforestry projects, motivating them to further expand this work to our post-harvest department, thanks to the Contour Lines Post Harvest department, Contour Lines Center, led by Nictê Milhose and Ulysses Milhose.
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See flyer in the comments, how you can support the movement.💪
