By Divya Godbole | Programme Officer
Thanks to your generous support, the Nasio Trust has been able to provide 68 families with kitchen garden equipment to set-up their own kitchen gardens. Kitchen gardens are a cheap and efficient means of improving food security amongst landless labourers or small-scale farmers in rural Kenya. Nasio's kitchen garden equipment includes indignenous varieties of seeds (including for vegetables such as pumpkin seeds, cowpeas, and kale) as well as basic gardening equipment such as a shovel.
Families receiving the gardening equipment are trained its use to maximise the small peice of land they have, either in the village or in the peri-urban towns closeby such as Mumias. Kitchen gardens are sources of income and food as surplus produce can be sold in the local market.
Young people like Gloria, a secondary school student in the Mumias West Sub County, have greatly benefitted from their personal kitchen gardens. She was trained by Nasio's agricultural team to maximise her father's small plot of land through kitchen-gardening. She has since succesfully grown kale and spinach, with enough left over for her to sell. Gloria has also helped train other young people like her in kitchen gardening.
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