Bio Gardening Innovations, a holistic gardening project in Emuhaya, Western Kenya supports smallholder farmers to break away from monocultures and create thriving, overflowing “food forests” on their farmland using modern forestry techniques.

Partnering with the Tudor Trust and Pangea, the entity sought out local farmers who had already shown some interest in agroecology. Combining the farmers’ indigenous knowledge of the land with permaculture methods, they embarked on a project to turn maize fields into food forests. The diversity of the food forest is integral to restoring soil fertility and encouraging the return of native wildlife and insects.