I · About
Why any of this exists
Soko Harvest is an argument made in soil: that a small piece of degraded Kajiado land can be more productive, more beautiful and more profitable than it was — and that this is repeatable.
- Holding
- 2.17 acres
- Location
- Isinya, Kajiado
- Method
- Regenerative
- Open to
- Visitors & growers
Most of the land around here has been asked to give without being given anything back. We started from the same ground, and the whole point is that we did not start from better.
Four things we believe, plainly
- 01
Small is not a compromise
Two point one seven acres worked properly is denser, more diverse and more productive per acre than anything a tractor can reach. The constraint is attention, not area.
- 02
The soil is the balance sheet
Everything else — yield, resilience, what we can charge — is downstream of organic matter and water infiltration. We manage those first and let the rest follow.
- 03
A farm should be worth walking through
Beauty is not decoration here. A place people want to spend a day in is a place that funds its own education programme and sells its own produce.
- 04
Prove it or drop it
We measure what we claim, publish what we measure, and say plainly when something did not work. A method nobody can check is a story, not an argument.
We did not start from better ground. That is the whole point.
What the ground has given back
Four years of it, measured rather than claimed. These are outcomes on the ground, not projections.
- 1,240
- Trees established
- 126,000
- Litres of rain harvested
- 8
- Tonnes of compost made
- 72+
- Native species recorded
- 850+
- Families supplied weekly
- 100%
- Free of synthetic input
Indigenous and fruiting, since inception
Held on site rather than lost to runoff
From farm residues and animal bedding
Birds, pollinators and understorey plants
Through boxes, market and wholesale
No manufactured fertiliser, herbicide or pesticide
The argument is the place
None of this reads properly on a screen. Walk it instead — the beds at first light, the trees that were sticks four years ago, and lunch within sight of where it was grown.