Africa: Kenyan urban youth defy stereotypes to provide kitchen gardening solutions
Last year, the Ministry of Agriculture through a project dubbed, the National Agriculture and Rural Inclusive Growth Project (NARIGP) provided requisite kits for the establishment of kitchen gardens to at least one million vulnerable households in rural and urban areas.
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Xinhua|
2021-01-31
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NAIROBI, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) — Unlike her peers who may be wary of their well-manicured nails, June Kamba is not afraid to get dirt under her nails; as a matter of fact, she draws pleasure from thrusting garden tools into the earth and scooping soil with her bare hands.
Kamba, 24 is a self-taught organic kitchen gardener, offering gardening solutions to clients looking forward to growing food that is free from chemicals.
“There has always been a compelling desire within me to wean people off the consumption of inorganic food. Kitchen gardening stood out as the most effective way of achieving my aspiration,” Kamba told Xinhua on Saturday.
“Halisi gardening services was born last year as the vehicle intended to help me achieve my long-held dream,” she added.
Vegetable gardening has well been with us, historians point to a time when a man stopped being nomadic, choosing to occupy a single land for a prolonged time.
This new lifestyle is assumed to have encouraged the cultivation of edible herbs, which were predominantly used for medicinal purposes.
