Adventures in farming

Where it all began Our adventures in Kenya began in 2010 when Tim Fox told me about a group of orphan children near the town of Butere who struggled to eat on a regular basis.  Villagers didn’t have enough to always feed their own children, so orphan children were...

Farmer Field Schools

We began our farming project in Kenya back in 2011 with the intention to feed local orphan children around the village of Mundeku.  After initially supporting one particular family to take in these children, it became clear that a better approach was to provide maize...

Princess Margaret at Martha’s Guest House

James Shiraku Inyundo was born to a poor family who could not afford for him to go to school. Aged just 15 he set off on foot from his home near Kakamega for Nairobi over 300 km away looking for work. In 1924 he secured a job with the East African Railways &...

Farm – Ebubala Primary School maize

One of the reasons we set up the farming project was to provide food to the nearby Ebubala primary School.  After the annual maize harvest, we are able to donate a number of sacks of maize to the school. Once the maize is ripe, it is cut by hand and the stalks broken...