“Salum, are you saying they will pay you one hundred and fifty million shillings?! That’s over sixty thousand dollars!”
“Ssshhh, don’t shout.”
“Sorry! Sorry! That’s insane! Is that the price in the market?”
“Yes, it is. The return is extremely good with Pine trees, with the industry in general. Demand exceeds supply. Money does grow on trees.”
Jonathan stood silent for a moment, dumbfounded.
“So wh-….what… what will you do with the other six acres?”
“I will be selling one acre of trees every year while planting another acre. I’ll always have two acres free to give the soil time to recover after harvesting. That’s the plan, and then I’ll start investing some of the money I make on other projects.”
Sixty thousand dollars was more than what Peter Odhiambo made every year and it was mor
