Bio Gardening Innovations: Food forests in Kenya
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.
Year: 2021
Country/ies: Kenya
Geographical coverage: Africa
Full text available at: https://afsafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/biogi_compressed.pdf
Content language: English
Author: Ferdinand Wafula
Type: Innovation
Organization: Bio Gardening Innovations, The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)