Shipping seeds! (and 200 🌳!)

Short one today — two big updates!

• We’re up to 200 people who’ve claimed street trees!!

• Sending out the first batch of seeds today!

Super small wins but celebrating anyways 🎉

Up next:

• Look out for your seeds in the mail starting next week! I’m sending an envelope via snail mail with instructions.

• An in-person event

• Continuing to march towards 1,000

Till next week!
Mayank

Postscript Trivia 🤓

This weekend I had the chance to travel to Orlando and saw the plant we now call Spanish moss. Some cool facts—

• The indigenous peoples of Louisiana called the plant “Itla Okla” (Tree Hair). Thinking it resembled their Spanish counterparts, the French began calling it “Spanish beard” (which became “Spanish moss”)

• There are SO many legends about the plant’s origin. One includes a conquistador getting his beard stuck in a tree. Hard to unsee it.

• The plant is neither Spanish, nor a moss. It’s part of the bromeliad family (literally a cousin to the pineapple 🍍), has no roots, and takes in nutrients and moisture from the air. It grows in super humid areas and is not harmful to its host tree (epiphytic, as opposed to parasitic).