We don’t just teach farmers how to increase food production. We teach techniques for healthy, sustainable living, so when they are ready, communities can thrive without our help.
The importance of respecting and protecting the land are key elements of our farmer training programme. But change can take a generation so we ensure the same messages are taught to children in the communities.
The farm itself embodies the restorative power of nature: it runs on solar power.
Making farmer training available outside the Training & Demonstration Farm means that people with no access to transport, as well as those in more rural areas, still have the opportunity to learn from us and help their communities.
With access to farmer training, communities in rural areas can set micro-economies in motion, which keep growing, year on year.
In the past, women were held back by a lack of education. Not any more. 80% of the famers we train are female and we are proud to see them empowered and using new skills to earn an income so they can expand their farms, start new businesses or save for the future.
58% of the Kenyan population is under the age of 24 and many of the younger generation associate farming with bare sustenance and discard it as a viable career path. Our Youth Farming Initiative is aimed at tackling youth unemployment and revolutionising how children view farming by giving them the resources and education that they need in order to thrive independently.
Plastic pollution is a major threat to our planet and oceans. Patience Komora, a 22 year old student built this innovative greenhouse at our demonstration farm with the objective to recycle and reuse wasted plastic bottles, and reduce the harmful effects on the environment. Over 900 wasted bottles were repurposed during the construction of this greenhouse!
We run an alternative energy programme that educates people about the damage firewood and kerosene does to the environment. As an alternative, Haller shows communities how to build biogas digesters. Cheap to build and to run, they are the most effective way for poor communities to produce clean energy.