Tree Talk, June 2006

is funding Tree Talk newspaper and tree seed for every school in Uganda. Thanks, WFP!

Tree Talk and WFP are helping 230 schools in the N and NE to grow 200,000 trees this year, including thousands of Mvule trees Here is Mr Ochaya, the headmaster of Laroo PS in Gulu, with a Tree Talk Mvule that is one year old.

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Tree seed is the beginning of all trees.With this Tree Talk, we are sending seed for Mvule to districts in the center, north and east. This is a fast-growing and rewarding tree. We are sending seed for Podo to the cooler districts in the west and south west. Crack the coat of the Podo seed before you plant it. It is a good timber tree. Finally, for the hot dry areas, we are sending the seed for a tree called Echoma in Ateso and Loba in Lugbara. It has a delicious fruit. But this Tree Talk seed cannot be enough for you, your school and home. Happy mother with seed for a tree called Lira.It produces quick shade and building poles.

We need a variety of trees around us. Every tree has its own purpose. Planting just one type of tree is like eating just one type of food. Would that be good? No!

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Tree seed is life!

When to collect your seed

So you need to collect your own seed for all the different trees you need. Below is a table on some useful trees. Learn your trees and study when they produce seeds. Some trees produce seeds once a year, others twice. Some trees make seed for a short time, others over a period of months. Some seeds need treatment before you put them in your nursery bed. Some germinate with no help from us. Others need nicking or soaking. Keep this table near you so you can consult it. Many trees are seeding now so start collecting! This boy at Lacor P7 School is collecting seed for a tree called Jatropha. Jatropha makes a good live fence. Its Luganda name is Kiryowa. You can grow vanilla on it.

How to collect your seed Look for good mother trees. For fruit trees, collect from trees with many good tasting fruit. For timber trees, collect from trees that grow straight and have many seeds.

Work with friends so that you can collect from as many trees as possible. 30 trees is a good number and will give you good genetic variety.

Mix the seeds up so that the seeds from different trees are in one basket. Then divide them between you and your friends. Now you can start your nursery!

Everyone is sad about the loss of Mvule but there is no need to feel hopeless. Do not regret: instead, start planting! Mvule is easy to germinate and grows fast. It is not a difficult tree.

This is the Mvule fruit. It is loved and dispersed by bats. The leaves of Mvule are good for mulch.

This is how the foresters get Mvule seed. They break the fruit with a machine. You can break the fruit up by hand. Once it has grown to the height of one metre, it can survive up to six months without rain. It also resists termites. Some people think that Mvule takes a very long

time before it can be harvested, about 80 years. This is not true! You can harvest Mvule after 30 years. This is when it has reached a diametre of 60 cm at the height of the

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is our great tree but it is now endangered. There is too much cutting and not enough planting.

so easy to grow

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Mvule

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chest of an adult (breast height). Compared to other hardwoods, Mvule is very fast growing. Mvule resembles teak and is valued for floors, furniture and boats.

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The resin from the stem has medicinal value.

Harvesting your own Mvule seed If you cannot get Mvule seed from the National Tree Seed Centre, you can harvest your own. The female tree produces plenty of seeds. This is usually around March. Collection is easy. You can pick the fruits from the ground. Collect the mature fruits, crush them and put them in water. The seeds will sink and can easily be separated. After separating, the seeds should be dried in the shade for a few days to reduce moisture.

New Vision Mvule

Wrong use of Mvule

In 2005 Tree Talk and New Vision sent Mvule seed to 500 lucky readers. Later we wrote to them to find out what they did with the seed.

Mvule is a timber tree of very high value. This means that when its wood is cut as timber it sells for a high price, much higher than other wood. Because Mvule trees are endangered in Uganda, they are not meant to be harvested here. So most Mvule timber in Uganda is brought in illegally from Congo by people who are taking advantage of the chaos there. This is against the law and bad for the environment of Congo.

A 16 year old Mvule in Jinja, as fast growing as a pine.

Emmy Kalyebara from Kyenjojo sent this photo (right). He got six seedlings. He planted one at the Shell station in Kyenjojo town and gave five to a friend. Paul Alibu of Adjumani got 57 seedlings and sent this photo below.

Mvule being used for brick burning in Mukono. (Photo: FORRI) But even in Uganda Mvule trees are being cut, often for wrong reasons such as to burn bricks. Mvule is too valuable to be used for such a purpose. Instead of burning a valuable tree like Mvule, it is better to burn a tree like eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is a fast-growing tree. If you work in a brick works, make sure you plant a small forest of eucalyptus to meet your fuelwood needs.

Mvule ends up being a big tree. So it is very good for planting around institutions like health centers, hospitals and subcounty headquaters where there is plenty of land and no cultivation. (Photo: Ebert)

But you can also grow Mvule on farms. If you want

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Mvule being used to process lime in Tororo district. (Photo: FORRI)

Mvule for farms, schools, subcounty headquarters to grow crops around the Mvule tree, you can prune the lower branches so that it creates less shade. Space your trees about ten metres apart on your farm. You can also cut Mvule to get poles. It coppices (makes more shoots).

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Tree Talk is working with 230 schools in Lira, Apac, Pader, Kitgum, Gulu, Kumi and the whole of Karamoja. The aim is to plant woodlots, boundary and compound trees. Parents are clearing land for woodlots. Communities are getting involved! WFP-Tree Talk are giving barbed wire and over 600 seedlings to each of the 230 schools. Parents clear the land, bring poles for the fence and plant the seedlings. So far over 120 schools have planted their woodlots, and the first rains are not yet finished. More will be planted during the second rains. Meanwhile all schools in Uganda are urged to grow their Tree Talk seeds. Have you grown your Lusambya (Markhamia) and Cassia (Senna) seed from the last Tree Talk?

Kumi Boys PS donated space for this nursery, the only one in the district.

Above: Adyel PS in Lira: teachers and pupils from lower classes line up seedlings as they plant their woodlot. Below: upper classes make the fence.

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A pupil pots seedlings at Kumi Boys PS in the WFP-Tree Talk nursery.

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Tree Talk Plus: Parents and schools do great work

Caretakers at the Kumi Boys PS nursery. They are growing 20,000 Mvule seedlings as well as seedlings of many other trees.

Tree Talk mobiliser for Gulu, teacher Secondo Okot, with a parent at Lacor P7 School. They have made a beautiful live fence for the woodlot with Kituba. Live fences are long-lasting.

The Borassus palm is a very useful palm. In Lwo it is called Tugo. It is greatly valued by many Ugandans, including the Acholi people. Each fruit contains three seeds, orange in colour. These can be pounded and eaten. The softened outside is delicious. After pounding and eating, the Acholi like to heap the seeds. They then eat the first shoot that comes out of the seed (cotyledon). They say it tastes like cassava and call it Ocwiji. Finally, the tree is a source of palm wine. When the palm tree is cut, it can be split into 16 to 20 poles. These are very resistant to termites. Alternatively the trunk of each tree can make three or four traditional beehives. These sell for 3000/= each.

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A Borassus palm in an IDP camp. This is a tree that gives many products to people. The seed is traditionally spread by elephants but you can also plant it.

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Know your trees: Borassus palm, Tugo or Ekudut

A heap of Tugo seeds in Gulu. They will sprout, producing an edible shoot called Ocwiji. A Borassus palm fencing pole at the WFPTree Talk woodlot at St Joseph PS in For God village near Gulu town. This woodlot has three species: eucalytpus, cassia and leucaena.

Write to PO Box 22366, Kampala. Every letter published wins a T-shirt.

Musizi tree: We love to protect the environment by planting more trees and giving care to them. Agric and compound teacher Aliabu Julius and pupils of Nawansaso Day and Boarding School, Kamuli

Schools should not wait to be told to plant trees. Even before Tree Talk’s emphasis on regreening the

nation, our school had established a live fence, forest and orchard. SP Okong Angiro, Agric teacher, St Mary’s Girls PS, Namalu.

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We prepared seed beds for all these trees: Mugavu, Musasa, Mvule and Musizi. Kisiibo Musah, agric teacher, with pupils, Oriyoi PS, Tororo Paul Kasadha writes that he planted many cassia trees at St Peter’s SSS, Namuwendwa, Kamuli. Well done! Trinity College, Buwagi, Jinja: environment teacher HK Ntambula and students have planted Grevillea, Moringa and Cassia. How about planting some Mvule too? Greetings from the Karambi SS Tree Talk Club. We treasure much tree planting! Douglas Kule, Headmaster

So some students in Australia are making small sacrifices so that they can save pocket money for fees for Tree Talkers. Some are walking to school instead of taking a bus. Some are not having "eats" after school. Some are "going without" things they usually enjoy. Thanks, Australians! Tree Talkers, if you would like to send a message to these students or study at Nyabyeya, write to Tree Talk,

PO Box 22366, Kampala.

Fun facts about Australia • It is the flattest and driest inhabited continent on earth. • It is both a continent and a country. • It is the home of the eucalyptus! • It has special animals, like kangaroos. Their babies grow in pockets on the front of the mother. TREE TALK is a project of:

Straight Talk Foundation, 45 Bukoto St. Kamwokya, PO Box 22366, Kampala Tel. 0312-262030/1

World Food Programme, KAMPAL A, UGANDA. TEL: 0312-242000

To encroach means to move into something that does not belong to us personally. Forest reserves do not belong to us personally. So we must not encroach upon them. Forest reserves belong to the nation and have serious jobs to do. Above all they protect our environment and stabilise our rain, streams and weather. We can collect forest products from them but NOT move into them to live or cultivate crops. If we encroach on forest reserves, sooner or later we will create desert in Uganda. Let's fight encroachment together. Do you live near a forest reserve? Well these are the rules about forest reserves that the National Forestry Authority wants everyone to know:

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Communities and teachers: Tree Talk is offering a training for you in late 2006. Get selected by sending photos of your tree nurseries, boundary planting and woodlots to Tree Talk PO Box 22366, Kampala.

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Schools in Australia want to help you and other students go to Nyabyeya Forestry College to study for a diploma or a certificate.

Yes! A newspaper called The West Australian was shocked when it found out that many children in Uganda do not eat lunch because there is no firewood to cook the food.

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Busy students at Nyabyeya. You can be one too!

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Do not encroach on Australian newspaper, students offer school fees forest reserves

Sad sight: a forest reserve that is being damaged by encroachers.

•No fresh encroachment will be tolerated, and any encroacher who entered reserves after 1992 should leave voluntarily. •Encroachers who had vacated the reserves should not go back. • Always allow the demarcation of the boundary and the registration of encroachers to go on peacefully. Teachers and learners, help foresters to combat encroachment.

member Gladys Biira with her first born Calvin Mirembe potting seedlings for sale. “Our organization is getting a lot of money from these nursery seedlings,” she says.

We already know one CBO we will invite: SHWO from Kasese! SHWO stands for Self-help Women Organisation. On the right is SHWO Buy high-quality tree seed from the Uganda National Tree Seed Centre, PO Box 23889, Kampala. Tel: 041-286049. Only 2500/= for 50g of Mahogany.

Forestry Inspection Division, National Forestry Authority and National Tree Seed Centre.

Editor: C Watson Writers: S Walaita, SP Amunau, G Kiyingi Design:Gb Mukasa Printer: The New Vision

Everyone is sad about the loss of Mvule but there is no need to feel hopeless. D o not regret: instead, start planting! Mvule is easy to germinate and grows fast. It is not a difficult tree.

This is the Mvule fruit. It is loved and dispersed by bats. The leaves of Mvule are good for mulch.

This is how the foresters get Mvule seed. They break the fruit with a machine. You can break the fruit up by hand. Once it has grown to the height of one metre, it can survive up to sixmonths without rain. It also resists termites. Some people think that Mvule takes a very long

time before it can be harvested, about 8 0 years. This is not true! ou Y can harvest Mvule after 30 years. This is when it has reached a diametre of 60 cm at the height of the

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is our great tree but it is now endangered. There is too much cutting and not enough planting.

so easy to grow

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Mvule

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chest of an adult (breast height). Compared to other hardwoods, Mvule is very fast growing. Mvule resembles teak and is valued for floors, furniture and boats.

Ready in 30 years ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

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The resin from the stem has medicinal value.

Harvesting your own Mvule seed If you cannot get Mvule seed from the National Tree Seed Centre, you can harvest your own. The female tree produces plenty of seeds. This is usually around March. Collection is easy. You can pick the fruits from the ground. Collect the mature fruits, crush them and put them in water. The seeds will sink and can easily be separated. After separating, the seeds should be dried in the shade for a few days to reduce moisture.

New Vision Mvule

Wrong use of Mvule

In 2005 Tree Talk and New Vision sent Mvule seed to 500 lucky readers. Later we wrote to them to find out what they did with the seed.

Mvule is a timber tree of very high value. This means that when its wood is cut as timber it sells for a high price, much higher than other wood. Because Mvule trees are endangered in Uganda, they are not meant to be harvested here. So most Mvule timber in Uganda is brought in illegally from Congo by people who are taking advantage of the chaos there. This is against the law and bad for the environment of Congo.

A 16 year old Mvule in Jinja, as fast growing as a pine.

Emmy Kalyebara from Kyenjojo sent this photo (right). He got six seedlings. He planted one at the Shell station in Kyenjojo town and gave five to a friend. Paul Alibu of Adjumani got 57 seedlings and sent this photo below.

Mvule being used for brick burning in Mukono. (Photo: FORRI) But even in Uganda Mvule trees are being cut, often for wrong reasons such as to burn bricks. Mvule is too valuable to be used for such a purpose. Instead of burning a valuable tree like Mvule, it is better to burn a tree like eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is a fast-growing tree. If you work in a brick works, make sure you plant a small forest of eucalyptus to meet your fuelwood needs.

Mvule ends up being a big tree. So it is very good for planting around institutions like health centers, hospitals and subcounty headq uaters where there is plenty of land and no cultivation. (Photo: Ebert)

But you can also grow Mvule on farms. If you want

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Mvule being used to process lime in Tororo district. (Photo: FORRI)

Mvule for farms, schools, subcounty headquarters to grow crops around the Mvule tree, you can prune the lower branches so that it creates less shade. Space your trees about ten metres apart on your farm. ou Y can also cut Mvule to get poles. It coppices (makes more shoots).

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Tree Talk is working with 230 schools in Lira, Apac, Pader, Kitgum, Gulu, Kumi and the whole of Karamoja. The aim is to plant woodlots, boundary and compound trees. Parents are clearing land for woodlots. Communities are getting involved! WFP-Tree Talk are giving barbed wire and over 600 seedlings to each of the 230 schools. Parents clear the land, bring poles for the fence and plant the seedlings. So far over 120 schools have planted their woodlots, and the first rains are not yet finished. More will be planted during the second rains. Meanwhile all schools in Uganda are urged to grow their Tree Talk seeds. Have you grown your Lusambya (Markhamia) and Cassia (Senna) seed from the last Tree Talk?

Kumi Boys PS donated space for this nursery, the only one in the district.

Above: Adyel PS in Lira: teachers and pupils from lower classes line up seedlings as they plant their woodlot. Below: upper classes make the fence.

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A pupil pots seedlings at Kumi Boys PS in the WFP-Tree Talk nursery.

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Tree Talk Plus: Parents and schools do great work

Caretakers at the Kumi Boys PS nursery. They are growing 20,000 Mvule seedlings as well as seedlings of many other trees.

Tree Talk mobiliser for Gulu, teacher Secondo Okot, with a parent at Lacor P7 School. They have made a beautiful live fence for the woodlot with Kituba. Live fences are long-lasting.

The Borassus palm is a very useful palm. In Lwo it is called Tugo. It is greatly valued by many Ugandans, including the Acholi people. Each fruit contains three seeds, orange in colour. These can be pounded and eaten. The softened outside is delicious. After pounding and eating, the Acholi like to heap the seeds. They then eat the first shoot that comes out of the seed (cotyledon). They say it tastes like cassava and call it Ocwiji. Finally, the tree is a source of palm wine. When the palm tree is cut, it can be split into 16 to 20 poles. These are very resistant to termites. Alternatively the trunk of each tree can make three or four traditional beehives. These sell for 3000/= each.

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A Borassus palm in an IDP camp. This is a tree that gives many products to people. The seed is traditionally spread by elephants but you can also plant it.

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Know your trees: Borassus palm, Tugo or Ekudut

A heap of Tugo seeds in Gulu. They will sprout, producing an edible shoot called Ocwiji. A Borassus palm fencing pole at the WFPTree Talk woodlot at St Joseph PS in For God village near Gulu town. This woodlot has three species: eucalytpus, cassia and leucaena.

Write to PO Box 22366, Kampala. Every letter published wins a T-shirt.

Musizi tree: We love to protect the environment by planting more trees and giving care to them. Agric and compound teacher Aliabu Julius and pupils of Nawansaso Day and Boarding School, Kamuli

Schools should not wait to be told to plant trees. Even before Tree Talk’s emphasis on regreening the

nation, our school had established a live fence, forest and orchard. SP Okong Angiro, Agric teacher, St Mary’s Girls PS, Namalu.

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We prepared seed beds for all these trees: Mugavu, Musasa, Mvule and Musizi. Kisiibo Musah, agric teacher, with pupils, Oriyoi PS, Tororo Paul Kasadha writes that he planted many cassia trees at St Peter’s SSS, Namuwendwa, Kamuli. Well done! Trinity College, Buwagi, Jinja: environment teacher HK Ntambula and students have planted Grevillea, Moringa and Cassia. How about planting some Mvule too? Greetings from the Karambi SS Tree Talk Club. We treasure much tree planting! Douglas Kule, Headmaster

So some students in Australia are making small sacrifices so that they can save pocket money for fees for Tree Talkers. Some are walking to school instead of taking a bus. Some are not having "eats" after school. Some are "going without" things they usually enjoy. Thanks, Australians! Tree Talkers, if you would like to send a message to these students or study at Nyabyeya, write to Tree Talk,

PO Box 22366, Kampala.

Fun facts about Australia • It is the flattest and driest inhabited continent on earth. • It is both a continent and a country. • It is the home of the eucalyptus! • It has special animals, like kangaroos. Their babies grow in pockets on the front of the mother. TREE TALK is a project of:

Straight Talk Foundation, 45 Bukoto St. Kamwokya, PO Box 22366, Kampala Tel. 0312-262030/1

World Food Programme, KAMPAL A, UGANDA. TEL: 0312-242000

To encroach means to move into something that does not belong to us personally. Forest reserves do not belong to us personally. So we must not encroach upon them. Forest reserves belong to the nation and have serious jobs to do. Above all they protect our environment and stabilise our rain, streams and weather. We can collect forest products from them but NOT move into them to live or cultivate crops. If we encroach on forest reserves, sooner or later we will create desert in Uganda. Let's fight encroachment together. Do you live near a forest reserve? Well these are the rules about forest reserves that the National Forestry Authority wants everyone to know:

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Communities and teachers: Tree Talk is offering a training for you in late 2006. Get selected by sending photos of your tree nurseries, boundary planting and woodlots to Tree Talk PO Box 22366, Kampala.

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Schools in Australia want to help you and other students go to Nyabyeya Forestry College to study for a diploma or a certificate.

Yes! A newspaper called The West Australian was shocked when it found out that many children in Uganda do not eat lunch because there is no firewood to cook the food.

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Busy students at Nyabyeya. You can be one too!

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Do not encroach on Australian newspaper, students offer school fees forest reserves

Sad sight: a forest reserve that is being damaged by encroachers.

•No fresh encroachment will be tolerated, and any encroacher who entered reserves after 1992 should leave voluntarily. •Encroachers who had vacated the reserves should not go back. • Always allow the demarcation of the boundary and the registration of encroachers to go on peacefully. Teachers and learners, help foresters to combat encroachment.

member Gladys Biira with her first born Calvin Mirembe potting seedlings for sale. “Our organization is getting a lot of money from these nursery seedlings,” she says.

We already know one CBO we will invite: SHWO from Kasese! SHWO stands for Self-help Women Organisation. On the right is SHWO Buy high-quality tree seed from the Uganda National Tree Seed Centre, PO Box 23889, Kampala. Tel: 041-286049. Only 2500/= for 50g of Mahogany.

Forestry Inspection Division, National Forestry Authority and National Tree Seed Centre.

Editor: C Watson Writers: S Walaita, SP Amunau, G Kiyingi Design:Gb Mukasa Printer: The New Vision