Recently I was asked, "How did you get started in planting trees?" I showed the person a picture of a Mahogany tree, something that is perhaps one of the most beautiful trees in the world. This tree was planted only 25 years ago and was already almost 2 feet in diameter.

This tree was at the school in Belize I was serving at. As I drove around the community I saw several houses with beautiful mahogany trees in front of them. Around that time a friend started telling me about how you can plant them in a field and in 25 years harvest them.

So we decided to give it a try and in our first year we planted 20,000 trees over about 25 acres. Recently I walked through the plantation and some of the trees were as tall as me. Of course not all of them are that tall but the early results are very promising.