Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests is a Maya Nut school lunch program that serves Maya Nut drinks, cookies and other dishes in schools in the most impoverished parts of Central America and requires participating communities to reforest at least 2 hectares of land with Maya Nut and other fruit trees in exchange for receiving the lunches.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests was born of the need to reforest sites where Maya Nut has gone locally extinct and to motivate local people to consume Maya Nut because in many places, Maya Nut is stigmatized as food for poor, landless peasants, or for animals. By serving it to children as part of school lunches, we provide children (and their parents and teachers) with a positive Maya Nut experience. We hope this will create a new generation of Maya Nut consumers who appreciate Maya Nut for food and who help us conserve Maya Nut forests. The reforestation component of Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests will ensure that more communities enjoy the ecosystem services provided by Maya Nut forests and also have free and easy access to a source of Maya Nut for food and income.