Hillside Organic Garden
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About Hillside Organic Garden
Hillside Organic Garden Kabete was founded in Fortsmith in 2017 by Alice Mwangi in her family’s ¼ acre land. The garden is situated in a residential estate in Nairobi’s Metropolitan area of Upper Kabete, in Kiambu. This location is a tropical mountainous climate with two rain seasons, one in March – June and another in October to December. Temperatures range from 16 -25 degrees Celcius through-out the year with colder season being between June and August. The nights are frosty especially in the cold season.
The land has a sloppy topography, with red loamy soil that is deep and well drained (Nititsols). These soils are highly leached, not fertile and cannot support growth of most crops without fertilizer. The soils are slightly acidic and ideal for coffee and tea bushes. We have however, developed ways to overcoming these limitations to production, by use of techniques such as fermentation to develop well formulated compost fertilizer among other natural methods of soil fertility and crop nutrition management.
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What We Do,,
At Hillside Organic Garden there are over 100 different plant species with different ecological, economic and medicine values and functions.
We integrate gardening with small animals especially Chicken, Rabbits, bees, worms (red wigglers), to make a wholesome, circular, ecologically sound system that is cost effective and highly productive.
The aim of the 100% organic production is for our family’s food, community exchanges and farmers’ market and for ecological functions such as mineral cycling, soils covering and feeding of microbes.
We also do trainings and consultancy work for upcoming gardeners, NGO and organization as well as community services.
We also offer free and inspiration training using the garden’s social media platforms (Facebook and WhatsApp) contact us to join
what drives us,
Our Core Values,,
- Ecological – we value environment and nature greatly and endeavor to observe and apply natural methods in the garden.
- Equity of all: We are guided by principle of equity for all and there should not be exploitation of the strong by the weak. We inspire for all to have access to healthy food by promoting ‘Grow your own food’ principle.
- Sustainability – all our growing take care of the earth, making use of the earth resources in a way that ensures even the future generation benefit and that we are not taking too much resources than we need to from nature.
- Circular regeneration – we are guided by principle of regeneration of the resource especially the soil by ensuring we put back what is taken out albeit in a different form.
Regeneration of soils fertility using Organic matter