A Rocha Kenya offers a great opportunity for conservation awareness and action to the community living around Arabuko-Sokoke Forest and Mida Creek. Constant involvement and encouragement of the members of Muvera WA ASSETS is crucial to keep the interest of the community in conservation. Tree nursery management, tree planting and use of farming God’s way methods in their farms is very key.
Farming Gods Way is a farming practice that has proven to be productive in places where it has been practiced, in fact it is a method that borrows insights from how GOD Himself being the First farmer does ‘’Farming ‘’ as observed from what happens in the forest where so many litters of leaves decay to provide the land with the best ever nutrients for plants to grow well. At Gede we have the FGW demonstration plot aiming at imparting knowledge to people that we work with so that they replicate this to their farms. The outcome from the plot is extremely encouraging, the crops that were grown from the FGW demo sites were healthy and its yields were extremely high that we have been selling the produce and the money proceeds to the ASSETS different programs.
With these results in mind we have extended the plot to accommodate other crops that were initially not kept in the demo site. We have increased nine plots so that we can grow other types of crops that are on demand, such as spinach, onions, dania and carrots among others.
Apart from all these, farming God’s way trainings will soon be introduced to our target audience so that everyone is well aware of all the benefits and importance of FGW. As it has proven to be more and more productive, Farming God’s Way is bringing hope to farmers in Dakatcha. Mr Stephen Moneni is slowly reaping the benefits after two seasons of practice. ‘It is amazing that I didn’t have to weed my plot during the second season’, he says, ‘and the difference between the plot and the rest of the farm is evident, I am pleased’. Having been a strict maize farmer, Stephen has now diversified his crops and made compost for his farm in a bid to increase his yields.