About Kang Perm Farm

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Background

Paul Fisher, Felix Otieno Ogola and Frederick Ochieng Atieno first met in Kenya at the beginning of May 2025.  About 4 months previously Paul and Frederick had established contact via social media. Frederick and Felix are neighbours. Paul lives in France.

Whilst Frederick and Felix have access to family lands and farming expertise, they also have a need to feed themselves and their families.  Furthermore, whilst living in a close local community there is a collective imperative to assist others with food and work. The key roadblock to developing this initiative is start up working capital. Paul has already begun to provide this essential element to enable KangPermFarm to become self sustaining and durable.

Climate change, pollution and a rising population along with poor agricultural outputs, poverty and low skill levels has established a cycle of unemployment, undernourishment and social breakdown.  This has led to the idea of a permaculture project.

Adopting the principle of “Think global, act local”, has underpinned the ethos of KangPermFarm.

Mission

To establish and sustain a community based permaculture farm in Kangango.

Vision and Values

To promote the human values of equality, liberty and fraternity

To set the example for awareness, sharing and education

To demonstrate that local action provides solutions

To embrace a culture of transparency, honesty, fairness and respect

To be accountable to each other

Objectives

To contribute to poverty eradication

To ensure food security to ameliorate climate change

To support healthy living, economic development and education

To promote permaculture to protect ecosystems and biodiversity  

To establish community enterprises to combat unemployment  

To protect the environment

Success Criteria

Sufficient crops to feed the community and to sustain the next farming season

Compost to enrich the land

Seminars to educate and promote permaculture

Community participation

Start up projects in the locality  

Investment to expand the range of activities

Crops

This is a selection of the crops that have been planted, are growong and have been harvested.

• Maize
• Beans
• Soya beans
• Avocado
• Pawpaw
• Mangoes
• Bananas
• Yams
• Sugar Cane
• Ground Nuts
• Passion Fruit
• Irish Potato
• Onions
• Kale
• Pumpkin
• Cow Peas

Animals

• Chickens
• Goats
• Sheep
• Bullocks

The first half of 2025 has seen the establishment of KANGPERMFARM; the ploughing and fencing of land, the purchase of tools, the set up of a bank account, the husbanding of crops already planted, investment in seeds, the construction of a compost and many small adjustments to the use of the land.

More land has been added to the original fields.

A major investment in 2 acres of sugar cane has been a startling success which involved help from the community and assistance from sugar kane expertise locally.

The compost has had to be expanded as the supply of vegetable and animal waste has grown as the farm has expanded.  This has had a cummulative effect on the fertility of the soil and the processing of organic waste.

The farm is completely organic; no chemicals are used except for the veteranary treatments for the animals; de-worming and antibiotics!

Already healthy crops of maize have ensured a sustained food supply for the community.

The remainder of 2025 will see a major investment in dairy cattle. Already the infrastructure to accommodate two dairy cattle is in place along with the substantial investement in ? grass to maintain a high quality diet for these highli productive beasts.

Furthermore, an investment in Irish Potatoes is envisaged in the last quarter of 2025. Top quality seed potatoes will ensure a blight free crop.