Plant something that lasts.

Sylva begins with a simple idea: what if people could do something today that would still be growing decades from now?

A tree can outlive the moment it is planted. It can provide shade, shelter wildlife, improve the landscape and become part of a place that future generations inherit. That is what Sylva is about.

We are not trying to create another website where people make a donation and never know what happened to it. We want to create something real, personal and lasting — a real tree, on real land, in Portugal, with a real connection between the person who supports it and the tree that grows.

Why we are doing it

The world is full of things that are temporary. We wanted to create something different — something that gives people the opportunity to put their money toward something alive. Something that grows. Something they can return to. Something they can give to someone they love.

When someone supports a Sylva tree, they should know where their tree is, what tree they supported, what it means, and how it is growing — and eventually, they should be able to visit it.

The current Sylva concept is based around planting 5,000 real trees in Alpedrinha, Portugal, with trees connected to certificates and GPS coordinates. That is the foundation of everything we are building.

Our mission

Plant real trees and give people a meaningful way to become part of their growth. Someone in another country should be able to support a tree in Portugal. A family should be able to create a grove. Someone should be able to plant a tree in memory of someone they lost.

Years from now, these individual decisions should become something much larger. A forest.

The first forest

Our first major objective is to establish and grow the Sylva planting project in Alpedrinha, Portugal — a place where the trees are not simply numbers in a database. They are physically there. Growing. Changing. Becoming part of the landscape.

Our initial vision is 5,000 real trees. Five thousand individual trees. Five thousand stories. And when those trees begin to grow together, they become something much bigger than 5,000 separate purchases. They become a forest.

Step by step, not all at once.

We don't need to launch everything at once. We need to get the foundation right first.

Phase One — Make the trees real

The land, the planting plan, the species, the people and processes to plant and care for the trees — and a system for tracking every one. Every tree gets a tree number, a location, a certificate, and GPS coordinates where applicable. That's the beginning of accountability.

Phase Two — Make the experience personal

This is your tree. This is where it is. This is what you helped create. Simple, not complicated.

Phase Three — Different ways to participate

Single Tree — one person, one tree. Family Grove — three trees, named, for a family. Legacy Forest — ten trees, a family name, aerial footage, and a physical nameplate on site.

Phase Four — A place for gifts

A birthday gift. An anniversary gift. A wedding gift. A gift for a new baby. Enter a recipient's name at checkout and the certificate is made out to them — because a physical object can be lost, but a tree keeps growing.

Phase Five — Memorial trees

Some of the most meaningful trees will be planted in memory of people. A family could visit it, sit beside it, watch it grow, bring their children, and return years later. Not just a product — a living memory.

Phase Six — Build the Sylva community

As the number of trees grows, the people behind them should be able to follow the project, see planting updates and photographs, and eventually meet each other. One person might only support one tree — but together, thousands of people can create a forest.

Phase Seven — Let people visit

The ultimate goal is to make the connection physical: walk through the land, find your tree, see your family grove, bring friends and children. Imagine supporting a tree from another country, then years later, standing beside it.

Phase Eight — Beyond 5,000 trees

5,000 is the beginning, not the end. Once the first project is established, we look at more land, more trees, more groves — but only once we've proven Sylva can do one thing extremely well.

What success looks like

Opening the Sylva map years from now and seeing thousands of trees. A family visiting their grove. Someone receiving a tree as a birthday gift and remembering who gave it to them years later. Children visiting trees their parents supported before they were born. A landscape changed because thousands of people decided to do something small — one tree, then another, then another — until eventually, it is a forest.

One tree or a family grove.

Every plan includes the pre-order and an official certificate per tree. The monthly plan funds new land and new trees. Cancel anytime.

🎁 Perfect gift — enter the recipient's name at checkout. Extraordinary for birthdays, anniversaries, and memorials.

Here's the part of this plan that doesn't make it into a pretty product photo: land in Alpedrinha doesn't come with water already running to it. To turn dry, cleared scrubland into a forest that actually survives, we need to drill boreholes, install water tanks, dig ponds and swales, and lay irrigation lines across every hectare we plant. Skip that step, and the trees don't make it through their first summer — no matter how many of them we plant.

That infrastructure — the land itself, the boreholes, the tanks, the ponds and swales, the irrigation — is the foundation everything else stands on. It's also the one part of this plan that a single €50 pre-order can't fully cover on its own, especially this early. That's exactly where a donation comes in.