I · Our Farm
Organic horticulture, permaculture, agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, mixed farming, agritourism, education and commercial production — all of it on 2.17 acres, all of it feeding each other.
What we inherited
Thin volcanic topsoil, a hard cap where hooves and rain had beaten it flat, and a water table nobody had ever asked to be refilled. Ordinary Kajiado ground.
What we changed
Kept the soil covered, kept living roots in it year round, moved the animals instead of confining them, and put in trees on the assumption that they matter more in year ten than year one.
What it does now
Grows more than forty crops, feeds several hundred households a week, holds its own rain, and carries enough birds and pollinators that we had to start counting them.
Under cover, so the dry season is a season rather than a stop
Each practice pays for the next. That is the whole design — not eight enterprises sharing an address, but one system with eight outputs.
Forty-odd vegetable and herb crops on intensive beds with permanent paths, grown without synthetic fertiliser, herbicide or pesticide.
The layout itself does the work: zones by how often something is visited, water moved by gravity, and every roof, path and slope earning a second job.
Indigenous and fruiting species in belts and alleys — shade, fodder, fruit, timber, windbreak and root depth from the same rows.
Minimum disturbance, permanent cover, living roots year round, and animals integrated as a soil-building tool rather than a separate business.
Cattle, sheep and poultry on a planned rotation, following the crops and leaving fertility behind rather than bare ground.
Standing orders for restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals and retailers who need to know exactly which bed their food came from.
Courses, apprenticeships and open field days for growers who intend to change how their own land is farmed.
Farm days, the long table and quiet stays — for people who would rather spend a weekend somewhere real.
Everything has a purpose. Nothing is decorative without also being functional.
Every roof drains to a tank. The compost sits between the stock and the beds. The road is one loop with no dead ends.
Kajiado does not have four seasons. It has two rains and a long dry, and every decision on this farm is really a decision about water — when it arrives, where it goes, and how long you can hold it.
Rainfall indicative for the Isinya area · not yet measured on site
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.