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Getting a tax deduction and offsetting your carbon emissions by purchasing carbon offsets from Community Friends will soon be available.

We are in the process of establishing a Mi tree nursery in a rural Sri Lankan village. Mi trees were once an important part of rice cultivation because the Mi tree fruit attracts bats which fertilize the rice crops. With the introduction of chemical fertilizers, farmers were told they could cut down the Mi trees. Soon farmers were dependant on the chemicals. Now we are reintroducing Mi trees to farmers and educating them on the value of natural fertilizer. To make sure that the new trees we plant are not cut down, we are including farmers in a profit sharing of the carbon offset revenue each year.