Nutrition through food forests & gardens in Kenya

by Drylands Natural Resources Centre
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Nutrition through food forests & gardens in Kenya
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Nutrition through food forests & gardens in Kenya
Nutrition through food forests & gardens in Kenya
Nutrition through food forests & gardens in Kenya

Project Report | Feb 4, 2025
Nutrition Through Food Forests & Gardens report

By Nicholas Syano | CEO & Founder

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INTRODUCTION

Happy new year to us all from DNRC fraternity.We hope that the year is off to a good start. We are happy to once again share our quarterly report with us all. DNRC main goals are environmental regeneration, economical regeneration and social regeneration. Under this project on food forests and organic kitchen establishment, its addressing both environmental, social and also economical needs of both the organization and the farmers. When we establish food forests, we plant diverse trees, shrubs, vines, tubers, ground covers, and also herbs which provide both food and biodiversity.The organic kitchen gardens established also provide organic vegetables for domestic use and sale of extra for income. Also by using natural pest and disease control concoctions, we protect the environment thus the importance of this project towards achieving DNRC main goals. Thanks for all the support to this project.

During the reporting quarter, DNRC continued to maintain both DNRC food forests and kitchen gardens as well as training and following up farmers to manage their individual food forests and kitchen gardens for constant supply of healthy foods for both DNRC staff, interns, visitors  and farmers. DNRC staff incharge of the food forest and kitchen gardens  majorly focused on the following activities during this reporting period: General management of the food forest, harvesting of both fruits and vegetables, pruning of both production trees and the nursing trees,Mulching, pests and disease management, mulching, manure application, harvesting and marketing both fruits and vegetables.Below are more detailed activities during the reporting quarter.

DNRC FOOD FOREST

During this reporting period, DNRC staff in charge of the food forest was majorly involved in the management of the food forest mostly in  pruning (chop and drop), heavy mulching of the production trees, manuring and harvesting of vegetables and fruits from different layers of the food forest. A total of 50 kg of vegetables were harvested in the food forest as well as 20 kgs of bananas and 5 kg of guavas.

DNRC KITCHEN GARDENS

During this reporting quarter, the focus was on increasing vegetable production at DNRC by expanding the vegetable beds and tending the existing ones.To this end,30 new vegetable beds were established and about 30kg of vegetable harvested for DNRC use and extra sold for income. Other activities during this period were Integrated Pest Management, weeding, mulching and manuring.

FOCUS FOR THE NEXT QUARTER

  •  Management of the DNRC food forest
  •  Management of DNRC organic kitchen gardens
  •  Farmers training and follow ups on food forests and kitchen gardens
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Drylands Natural Resources Centre

Location: Nairobi - Kenya
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Project Leader:
Nicholas Syano
Nairobi , Nairobi Kenya

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