Organic farming in a semi-rural community

Kenya

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1. Describe your project, your place, and its inhabitants (including animals): This is a host family project, where we do farming projects for self-sufficiency and also to support vulnerable widows and children. Our aim is to try to be self sustaining and not entirely depend on donations to support some of the the community projects we are implementing, like supporting widows with a mature animals to create their own livelihoods assets to support themselves, establish school fund to support needy children with school fees, promote talent based related activities in the community. My place is well secured, well fenced and its a safe place. We have never experienced any inseurity concerns since we started hosting volunteers from 2018. We are a Luo community originally migrated from South Sudan and settled around Lake Victoria in the western part of Kenya, so we eat fish a lot...hahaha at the same time we have variety of local, natural and healthy foods. We have a unique culture and traditions such as marrying more than one wife, it has been with us since time memorial, though this culture is fizzling out with the new generation.. We are more darker and tall people, we speak locall Luo language, english and Kiswahili. We are a community that love visitors, accommodative and treat them well as one of us. We have few tourist sites around here like the hippo point, Kit Mikayi (stone of the first wife), fishing beach, Antelope Santury. We keep different animals like cows, goats, sheep, poultry (chicken, duck, gees, a dog. We have also started beekeeping project. 2. List the activities that WWOOFers will participate in and what you want to teach them: Activities WWOOFers will participate in are as follows: 1. Planting and gardening/weeding of crop/vegetables 2. Cleaning 3. Beekeeping 4. Building and repair work of structures in the farm 5. Cooking We will teach the wwoofers our culture, language, how to cook ugly, chapati and different types of food. My wife is a very good salonist and can teach anybody who is interested in hair dressing,,,. 3. What could a WWOOFer's day look like at your site (time slot for participation in activities, expectations...)? A WWooFers's day looks like this: -work starts at 8:00 am as per the days program -break for breakfast at around 9:30 am -continue with work till around 11:30 am -break for lunch at around 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm -afternoon rest till around 3:00 pm -work till around 4:00 pm -the day ends Note: This is a tentative program and can change due to a number of factors like when its sunny and hot one cannot work in the garden or when its raining and its impossible to work during such time. We usually alternate and work early morning or late afternoon when its not hot. The program is accommodative and can be adjusted as a team. 4. Play the guide! Talk about your own hobbies (music, cooking, etc.) and those possible around (hiking, swimming, etc.): My hobbies include traveling to see nature, swimming, hiking, music/dancing, physical exercise (gym), cooking, making friends, evening walk. I am easy to ineteract with, very social, a good listener and like joking and making others laugh. Very open minded and esy going. They say i have a big heart to love and accommodate, hahaha On the issue of feeding, we feed on mostly on farm produce, what we grow in our garden such as maize, millet, pampkins, banana, mangoes, different types of vegetables, fish, chicken/meat.... We provide three means a day, breakfast which commonly tea or porridge, pumpkins, potatoes, mandazi, lunch usually include ugali/rice with vegetables, pumpkin soup or beans mixed with maize..... and supper/dinner include ugli or rice or chapati with vegetable, meat, fish, green grams, beans.... Since its a family host, we do almost all the activities together as a family. On the accommodation, we have a flat which is private and is within the comounds where volunteers stays. The house has own toilet and bathrooms. It has electricity and running water, though sometimes we experience blackout for like a day or few days but its not so common. The rooms are shared especially when we have more volunteers than the available rooms. We are doing farming through out the year, during rainy season or during dry season, therefore, we have more the same farming activities except during dry season we do mostly vegetables and not maize farming which takes longer period to mature.

Learning opportunities

Vegetable farming

Fruit or nut farming

Poultry farming

Pig farming

Forestry

Beekeeping

Aquaculture

Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas

Vegetable or fruit preservation

Beer, cider, wine, or juice making

Methods or systems

No-till farming

Permaculture

Regenerative agriculture

Host type

Nonprofit / Community

2 Hectares | 4.9 Acres

Accommodation

4+ WWOOFers

Bedroom

Children accepted

Pets accepted

Meals

Omnivore

Vegetarian

Vegan

Length of stay

1-2 weeks

3-4 weeks

Over a month

Nicholas

Member since 2023

Languages spoken: English Response rate: 100%

November 2025

Open

Planned visit

Closed

Kenya

Kisumu International Airport

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