Sponsor a Kitchen Garden

You can sponsor your own Nutrition Garden.

Decide which type of Kitchen Garden you would like to sponsor (Institutional or Domestic) and fill out our Sponsorship Form.

We will deliver and install the selected Kit and propvide it to one of the communities or familes on our waiting list.

Your name will be printed onto a sign on the Garden and photographed with GPS positioning, then uploaded onto our Garden Map.

You can see where your money was used and who it helped.

Ask for a sponsorship form.

 

bag garden

The Real Impact bag garden
gives urban families the
ability to grow fresh greens
with very little land

Nutrition Garden kits

Real Impact builds and sells the full hardware requirements to set up a new Nutrition Garden for institutions and communities in East Africa.

There are two templates, Institutional kits (for communities such as schools, health clinics, churches); and Domestic kits (for extended families, chiefly in urban locations).

Both of them feature fully pre-assembled kits of parts and the price of $1640 includes delivery and installation by our own team in the Central Thika region (prices in other regions by application).

 

Institutional Nutrition Garden Kit

  • Wood framed propagation house with plastic walls and workbench. (4 x 3m)
  • This is linked to a 12-inch deep vermi-compost tray (4 x 1m) made of a sheet of corrugated plastic and draining on the lower side into a gutter and then into a vermi-liquid tank with a tap (100 litres)
  • The unit has a clear corrugated plastic roof with a gutter leading to a rainwater harvesting tank (1000 litres)
  • The water from the tank can be fed into a drip irrigation system for 6 beds (each with 2 drip lines) 25 meters long. The kit includes necessary header pipes, drip lines and fittings.
  • Delivery and installation for destinations in Central province.

Cost: $1,640

Add-on pack

Some organisations with functioning agricultural clubs may already have access to tools, fertilizers and plant materials. For those who do not, we offer an add-on pack gives the institution all the tools it needs to start using the Nutrition Garden at once:

  • Seed trays, knapsack sprayer, watering can, fork, jembe, panga, bucket, harvest crate, weighing scales, wheelbarrow etc.
  • Nutrition Garden starter seed pack (carrots, amaranth, kales [sukuma wiki], fine beans, spinach, cabbage and pumpkin)
  • Nutrition Garden starter plant pack (tissue cultured matoke banana and sweet banana and sweet potato vines)
  • Five kilos of litter-feeding ‘earthworms’ to start the vermi-liquid and vermi-fertiliser production
  • A carefully selected supply of fertilizer and manure suitable to get the garden productive in the shortest time

Cost: $tbc

kit  kit

The Nutrition Garden kit is pre-manufactured and installed on site.

 

Domestic Nutrition Garden

Real Impact has developed simple systems for growing vegetables in used flour bags, filled with compost. A central post, fixed into the ground through the base of the bag, supports the bag when it is filled.

Transplants, such as, kales (sukuma wiki) and amaranth are planted into holes in the bag from the outside. Kales can be planted at 60 plants per bag, equivalent to 60 plants per meter square, since one bag stands on one meter square of ground. If kales are planted in the conventional way, in the ground, the planting density is only 6 plants per meter square. Therefore kales grow in bags represent a potential ten-fold increase in productivity per unit area of land – very relevant for small-scale farmers by virtue of limited land availability.

These systems also use less water than open ground crops, which are subject to water loss by evaporation. Bags in crops do not need to be weeded and can be situated on otherwise poor unproductive land.

Amaranth is promoted as a ‘bag’ crop rather than planting in the soil because it produces a lot of seed which can be a serious volunteer weed in following crops. Spinach is no longer grown in bags because it can be planted at 60 plants per meter square in the soil, so there is no land-saving benefit.


The domestic kits include:

  • Six 50kgUnga bags (flour bags) each with a 1.5 meter wooden post
  • Growing instruction booklet for nutrition garden bags
  • Nutrition Garden starter seed pack (carrots, amaranth [terere] cabbage, fine beans, sukuma wiki (kales) spinach and pumpkin.
  • Nutrition Garden starter plant pack (sweet potato, matoke banana, sweet banana).  Assembly instructions for vermi- liquid fertiliser bin
  • 50 litre vermi-liquid fertiliser  bin, with a drain tap
  • a 5-meter gutter and down pipe (to be fixed to the dwelling) leading to a rainwater harvesting tank (200 litres)
  • Seed tray, cylinder sprayer, watering can, fork jembe, panga and wheelbarrow

Cost: $      Delivery can be arranged at cost depending on distance.