2016 Eco Palm Orders

Advent has come and gone, Christmas is a faint glow in our rearview mirror, and epiphany has promised new gifts for the coming year. In this brief period before Lent, it's a great opportunity to make your Holy Week plans and order Eco-Palms.

The Presbyterian Hunger Program partners with Eco-Palms to bring you branches truly worthy of celebration. Conventionally, palms are harvested in rainforests that are critical habitats for migrating birds. The more fronds harvesters cut, the more income they generate, which results in over-harvesting and threatens the rainforest. Middlemen transport the palms out of communities for processing where more than half are discarded because of poor quality.

Your church’s purchase of Eco-Palms for Palm Sunday ensures fair wages, environmental protection training and development assistance for harvesting communities throughout the rainforests of Guatemala and Mexico.  Palms are harvested sustainably and processed in the harvesting communities, ensuring more of the benefit goes to the workers and towns where the palms are grown.  Last year, almost 1,000 PC(USA) congregations purchased Eco-Palms for Palm Sunday. Help more harvesters and their families by ordering Eco-Palms this year.   

Mission Associate, Enough for Everyone, Presbyterian Hunger Program

Downloadable resources (video about eco palms, bulletin inserts or brochures)

Eco-Palms will arrive the week of March 14-18
Palm Sunday:  March 20 

You will receive an email when they arrive to schedule a pickup at the Presbytery Office 8300 East Pointe Road, Lincoln

When your palms arrive, please store them in a cool location (such as a refrigerator or cool basement) and trim the stems 2-3 inches and place them upright in water (as you would a vase of flowers) until Palm Sunday. It is imperative you air the palms out in order to prevent them from molding or deteriorating.