Tamalu Farm’s approach is grounded in syntropic agroforestry, a dynamic system that integrates all seven layers of a forest in an agricultural landscape. This fosters increased social, economic, and environmental benefits for its users. Syntropic agroforestry mimics and accelerates natural succession processes to capture carbon, water, nutrients and biodiversity in degraded and undeveloped land.

Tamalu Farm’s one-acre market garden consists of a growing space with over 80 varieties of integrated fruit, vegetable, herb, native and timber tree species. They sell directly to customers through a subscription model, and they offer educational farm visits so that they can see how their food is grown and understand the different ways of managing land.

The farm plans to expand by setting up ForestFoods farms across the country and a logistics and distribution hub in Nairobi with an integrated supply chain. To help them advance towards these goals, L.E.A.F. Africa recently joined the Kenya Climate Innovation Centre in 2020 through the Commercial Forestry programme, in partnership with the economic development foundation Gatsby Africa.