Little Mavericks

One woman kneels in the dry, cracked dirt and plants a single tiny tree.

Show Notes

One woman kneels in the dry, cracked dirt and plants a single tiny tree. Meet Wangari Maathai: a Kenyan scientist who answered a whole country losing its forests by teaching village women to plant trees, one at a time, until there were more than forty million. The big idea: you don't have to fix the whole forest by yourself, you just have to plant your one tree. Be the hummingbird. A true story for curious kids, ages 6 and up. Part of Little Mavericks.

What is Little Mavericks?

True stories of real people who did what everyone said was impossible. A big-wave surfer, a scientist, an inventor, an explorer, an artist. Every episode is one maverick's story, told as an adventure for curious kids, and it ends with one big idea worth keeping. Living legends and history's boldest, side by side. Made for ages 6 and up, and the grown-ups listening along.

Each episode is written and narrated with AI, then fact-checked and reviewed by a real person before it's published.