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UNITED STATES PROJECT

MONCURE, NORTH CAROLINA

Chef Kabui is a big advocate for land ownership, especially for people of color. He makes direct connection between the health disparities and the income disparities with the decline of land ownership among people of African descent in the U.S. In the U.S, Chef Kabui and his friend Stuart Jeckel bought a farm in Moncure. They call the farm The Granary Farm. The farm is located in a community that has about seven families, has a bigger community farm, a cemetery, a home school co-op (Dimensions Family School of Chatham) and about 130 acres of wooded area. The farm's name and mission is based on the indigenous wisdom of the Gikuyu who had granaries along the walking highways where people in the nearby community would put cooked food for the travelers to eat for free. Anybody could go in and eat, but could not take anything with them. There was no need to take anything, because there would be other granaries along the way.

The farm hosts dinners with small and big groups, with conversation being part of the menu. Some guest spent a weekend away from the hustle and bustle of their busy lives. Others come just for the day. Guest also come to work on the farm during the day to grow the food prepared during dinners.

The farm is geared towards learning more about indigenous wisdom that many of us have forgotten.

Chef Kabui is delighted to offer to children today the farm experience he had as a boy, especially for the immigrant families whose parents have a farming background but whose children do not have a similar connection to the where their food come from.

PROJECTS IN Kenya

KITENGELA

Chef Kabui started Organic Chef Farms in Kitengela, about half an hours drive from the capital city, Nairobi. The farm offers youth an opportunity to learn about sustainable ways to produce healthy food and also ways of making a living as a farmer. The farm offers healthy food to the local community. The farm uses organic and permaculture growing methods. Chef Kabui offers workshops and training on healthy cooking during his visits to Kenya. The farm has been sustained through collaboration with various groups and individuals both here and in Kenya. The farm is looking forward towards having interns from the U.S, especially African Americans, interested in making a connection with Africa.

KILIFI

Chef Kabui has four farms in Kilifi County, near the Indian Ocean. The area is a textbook example of the intersection of slavery, colonialism and poor governance. The area has been plagued by those problems for over five hundred years. With poor infrastructure and flagging economic development, locals find it difficult to meet their food needs. Chef Kabui is working to create a demonstration farm in the Magogoni area to stimulate the local economy, and is planting trees to stem the impact of climate change. Another farm is experimenting with growing indigenous foods that are drought resistant and nutritious, such as moringa and teff.

Water access and food literacy are major problems in the area. Many people are too reliant on corn, a crop whose yields have suffered due to climate change. Young people have the opportunity here to learn to grow food in sustainable ways. They have access to the Chef's land to farm and earn a living for themselves.

Chef Kabui has planted a forest of local trees in a farm in Majajani, about 15 minutes from the town of Kilifi. By 2019, the trees will provide cover for grass that will be used for raising livestock. Chef Kabui also supports a tree nursery in Shibe, run by a family who sells trees to local farmers. They plan to begin selling fruits and herbs in the near future.

Kinangop

Chef Kabui has a vegetable farm and orchard in Naivasha. He also keeps some dairy cows for milk. One young man who needed land to farm manages this farm with the Chef's training and assistance. This is a pilot project for making land owned by those in the Diaspora available to local youth to produce healthy food for the country and to empower them to provide for themselves a better quality of life.

Murang'a

This is chef Kabui's ancestral home. While this land is used for growing trees, it is a perfect area to have poultry for a young person in the new future. The area has a reliable source of water and the climate is great for poultry, and easily accessible by road.