Summary

Foresteer starts as a new concept developed by Marcel Jong, focused on restoring land, planting trees, and creating productive green places that support people, nature, and future growth. Research is now taking place in several countries and regions, including The Gambia, Ghana, South Africa, Europe, India, and the Caribbean. Coastal areas are especially interesting because of the possibility to use solar energy for desalination.

Introduction

Today marks the beginning of an important new direction: Foresteer.

The Foresteer concept starts with a clear question: how can barren, dry, degraded, or underused land become green, productive, and valuable again?

The answer begins with the idea of a Green Spot: a place where trees, food production, water, people, and long-term care come together. The goal is not only to plant trees, but to create living places that can grow, support local communities, and become examples for future projects.

Main story

Foresteer is being developed as a practical initiative for land restoration and tree planting. The concept focuses on creating Green Spots: areas where nature and people work together to bring land back to life.

A Green Spot can include trees, crops, water systems, nurseries, composting, renewable energy, local workers, volunteers, and visitors. Every location will be different, because every country, climate, soil type, and community has different needs. The main idea stays the same: restore land in a way that creates long-term value.

The first step is research.

Foresteer is now looking at several possible countries and regions where the first Green Spot can begin. Research is taking place in The Gambia, Ghana, South Africa, Europe, India, and the Caribbean. These locations are being studied because they each offer different conditions, opportunities, and challenges.

Coastal areas are receiving special attention. Access to seawater creates the possibility to explore solar-powered desalination as a future water source. In dry and sunny regions, solar energy can help turn seawater into usable water for trees, crops, and local development. This makes coastal land especially relevant for the first Foresteer research.

The research is not only about finding land. It is also about understanding water availability, climate, local agriculture, access, cooperation, safety, renewable energy potential, and the possibility to create long-term impact.

Foresteer is not intended to be a one-time tree planting project. The ambition is to develop a model that can grow over time and eventually be repeated in other places. The first Green Spot must become a real example: a place where the concept can be tested, improved, and shared.

Foresteer begins with a broad vision, but the first practical goal is clear: find the right location to start.