ROOT TO FOOD Farmers’ Resource Guide: Achieving Food Production without Toxic Pesticides
The use of highly hazardous pesticides, banned in other countries, are still in use in Kenya and across Africa. They leave toxic residues on our food, harm our health, damage the soil, and kill bees and other helpful insects that are essential for farming. Root To Food Initiative (RTFI) has launched a useful resource guide:...
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Grow Soil
We have sandy soils at our farm in Fikirini, Kwale County, at the Kenyan Coast. When we acquired the farm, the soils were severely depleted and could hardly sustain any crop. The owners likely sold the land out of frustration. We knew full well what we were getting ourselves into. It was clear that it...
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