PROJECTS
Growing From Experience
GREENPOP is new. The experience behind it isn't.
Our own projects are only beginning, but GREENPOP brings together decades of practical experience in agroforestry, native plants, nursery management, landscape design, ecological planting, soil, traditional plant knowledge, and community education.
Rather than pretend we already have a vast GREENPOP portfolio, this page will grow along with the work itself.
For now, our projects fall into three groups: Built Work, Pilot Forests, and Case Studies.
BUILT WORK
Experience Already in the Ground
Before GREENPOP existed, members of our team were already designing landscapes, growing trees, managing nurseries, working with agricultural systems, and participating in ecological restoration projects.
Pongaraya Butchantha has operated Sufficient Space Agroforestry since 2017, providing landscape and farm design, plant sourcing and procurement, tree planting, contracting, and training in self-reliance, including food, herbal medicine, household products, and soil. His wider work has included agricultural consulting, community training, and traditional Thai medicine.
Apakorn Butchantha grew up on his family's agroforestry farm, practicing the “Three Types of Forests, Four Types of Benefits” philosophy associated with King Rama IX.
With formal education in plant science and landscape technology, his experience extends from nursery management and large-tree production in Japan to participation in Miyawaki-style forest projects with SUGi and Wonderfruit.
Through Baan Suan Onson, this knowledge continues as practical work with plants, landscapes, forests, and agroforestry in Thailand.
GREENPOP builds on that experience rather than starting from zero.
Agroforestry · Landscape Design · Native Plants · Nursery Management · Tree Planting · Soil · Ecological Restoration
PILOT FORESTS
From Nursery to Landscape
GREENPOP's pilot forests grow out of a wider body of work in native tree production, ecological planting, agroforestry, and landscape restoration.
The work begins in the nursery, where large numbers of native seedlings are grown, selected, prepared, and delivered for planting. Pong's nursery supplies approximately 100,000 tree seedlings each year. This capacity creates the foundation for projects at many different scales, from individual landscapes and farms to larger forest restoration initiatives, community sites, and ecological developments.
GREENPOP began with approximately 3,000 native seedlings transported from Pong's nursery to our land in rural Thailand. That first planting wasn't conceived as a demonstration project or case study. There was no GREENPOP yet.
Our pilot forests give us places to test ideas, develop planting methods, observe ecological change, and learn directly from the land before applying that knowledge to wider projects.
They are living laboratories for native forests, soil restoration, agroforestry, biodiversity, water management, food systems, and ecological landscape design.
As GREENPOP develops, these pilot forests will connect nursery production with real-world restoration: from seedling to planting to established forest.
Grow. Plant. Observe. Learn. Adapt.
CASE STUDIES
Learning From Forests Already Growing
GREENPOP doesn't believe every useful idea has to originate with GREENPOP.
Across Thailand and beyond, people are already experimenting with new ways to restore forests, rebuild soil, change agriculture, cool cities, create outdoor classrooms, and bring biodiversity back into human landscapes.
Our Case Studies will document projects we have participated in as well as projects that inspire us.
The Wonderfruit Ancestral Forest is particularly important to the GREENPOP story. Members of our extended team participated in the project, and encountering the forest at Wonderfruit introduced us directly to the Miyawaki approach and helped set in motion what eventually became GREENPOP.
Future case studies will look beyond forests alone.
We want to understand what works, what doesn't, what can be adapted to Thailand, and what happens years after the photographs from planting day have disappeared from social media.
Because the interesting question isn't:
What did you plant?
It's:
What grew?
THE NEXT PROJECT
This page is deliberately unfinished.
Every new GREENPOP forest, restored landscape, school project, community garden, urban intervention, regenerative farm, and experiment will become part of it.
Some will become full case studies. Some will simply teach us something. The best may do both.
If you have land, a school, a business, a community, or simply a place that could become more alive, perhaps the next project starts there.
Let's grow something.