Lessons from organic farmers who dared to dream big - FarmKenya Initiative
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Esther Kagai, an organic farmer and trainer on her Kiserian farm. Peter Gicharu was a small boy in 1953 when he began farming. He was in a primary school near Mang’u, Kiambu County, and growing food crops in the school garden was part of practical lessons in agriculture. Back then, Gicharu did not know that what he and the other pupils were practising was organic farming. He, however, remembers that they did not use any chemicals to enhance soil fertility or kill pests,...
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