Crazy for Organic!

When I was five years old, I was on an eight-hour trip from Nairobi to Western Kenya to visit my grandparents.

I was admiring the beautiful Limuru area and I boldly declared to my mother that when I grew up, I would marry a young lad from Limuru and become a farmer! My mom laughed it off until early 2004 when I also made another bold declaration that I had found my young lad from Limuru and we were getting married that year!

It has been 35 years since my first declaration and I know that dreams do come true. I am married and currently a farmer in Limuru. I was born and raised in the city, so you can imagine how little faith people had in this city girl who could not tell apart a bean plant from a weed!

I was too excited to care and soon started growing a variety of organic vegetables in my kitchen garden. My family began to enjoy a wide variety of vegetables and my venture proved quite successful as we always had more than enough food to eat.