Planting Trees to Restore Ecosystems
At TAP-EARTH, we desire to lessen fears associated with environmental concerns and nurture healing of geographic areas negatively impacted by humans and in some cases nature.
TAP-EARTH will plant a tree or 1000’s of trees on your behalf so you can participate in reforestation. Consider joining others who plant trees as memorials, as gifts to honor others and celebrate events. Once planted, you will receive an email confirming the restoration project where your tree(s) were planted.
What Can You Do?
For Individuals
Trees are always a perfect gift for any occasion promoting love of each other and the EARTH.
For Businesses
Purchase individual trees for individual recognition or corporate acres to meet more aggressive demands associated with corporate responsibility.
What We Do
- Encourage all to become better stewards of the EARTH
- Recognize our individual and collective impact and interdependence on nature
- Provide opportunity for individuals and groups to participate in reforestation and restoration of ecosystems
How It Works
Due to industrialization, growing the world’s food supply, and natural disasters such as flooding and fire, opportunity exists to actively participate in restoration.
TAP-EARTH identifies and purchases land for re-forestation and ecosystems restoration to offset our growing carbon footprint through carbon sequestration.
TAP-EARTH adheres to best practices from the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service and US Forest Service Forest Management Division for sustainable land management.
View Reforestation and Ecosystem Restoration Projects:
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Expedient Action Required to Heal
God intended good for us. He wants us to be responsible but he also encourages us to find joy in our lives and above all else to find hope and rest in him. We look forward to meeting you as a customer and to planting a tree for you.
We once noticed a sign in a bakery asking people to save a tree by not using a coffee stirrer. There are many plants that may be harvested to provide tools like stirrers that thrive from being pruned. Please enjoy a cup of coffee and stir it with pleasure knowing you took part in planting to offset such consumption.
TAP-EARTH is committed to being good stewards of the EARTH by identifying, procuring and implementing a restoration management plan for natural habitats negatively impacted by natural disasters, development projects, timber harvest or crop production. We are also committed to working cooperatively with specialists in restoration to expedite and encourage healing of the ecosystem.
We have four major goals:
- To produce dramatic results under tracts of timber and over wide open areas of land to enhance wildlife habitat, soil improvement and water quality;
- To provide opportunities for people in areas of the world who do not have access to land to participate in one of our restoration projects by purchasing trees for planting;
- To provide evidence of our results through before and after images and to follow a responsible business model;
- To encourage the love of God, nature and all people by highlighting their amazing inter-connectivity.
Meet the Owner
Sandy Sparks grew up in South Georgia working in large fields of tobacco and peanuts and watching corn grow over thousands of acres. Observing wildlife in rural areas of South Georgia encouraged a special appreciation for the need for areas of bramble or thick undergrowth for quail and rabbits, wet weather watering holes for all wildlife, ground cover to maintain and encourage soil production and health, as well as a canopy of diverse trees to support birds and many other animals. Over fifteen years ago she and her husband embarked on their first restoration project managing the reforestation and eco-system diversity of an abandoned peach farm. Later they began efforts to encourage wildlife, improve soil health, and encourage plant and tree diversity within an idle timber tract at their Two Church Project.
She and her husband became concerned with the tenor of discussion across the world regarding the environment and the desire of many impact their carbon footprint in a meaningful way. It became apparent that some of the distress may actually be a sense of helplessness and guilt because geographically not everyone can readily participate in environmental restoration projects. In an effort to encourage healing of the Earth through reforestation and eco-system management projects and to encourage healing among our fellow citizens, TAP-EARTH was founded to provide a path for both.
Our Projects
Peach Farm Project
Land Management of a reclaimed peach farm. When purchased the land consisted of peach trees that were no longer productive and bulldozed into the middle of the property and a low lying area consisting of a creek, some hardwood trees, pines, and cedar.
Two Church Project
Land Management of tract procured from a Corporate Timber Company. Efforts underway to restore land impacted by timber harvesting including prescribed burning, fire breaks to prevent wildfires, ground management to prevent run off into surrounding creek and food plots to restore habitat for wildlife.
Counties Creek Divides
Pine Forest struggling in sections due to inappropriate trees for type of soil and other environmental elements. Involving regional timber, forestry and natural resource experts.
Current Project: MatchTract
Goal: To positively impact clear-cut tract with grading work to prevent erosion, to oversee planting and reforestation efforts and implement a corporate commitment by TAP-EARTH to match numbers of trees purchased (up to 20,000) through January 2023.