Beatrice Gatumbo is the Sales & Networking Supervisor at TAMALU FARM, LEAF Africa - ForestFoods.

Tamalu Farm is a 10-acre site regenerative farm at the slopes of Mount Kenya. The farm layout is split into a number of enterprises:  The Agroforestry Market Garden currently consists of half an acre of growing space with over 80 varieties of integrated fruit, vegetable, herb, native and timber tree species. The annual produce from this section goes into our weekly vegetable box deliveries.

They also grow Cash Crops, including Miraa, Blueberries, Gooseberries, Passion, Pepino melons and more, depending on season.  Various Livestock demonstrations include pasture raised layers in egg mobiles; rotational high intensity non selective grazing of sheep.

In the interview, Beatrice and Els Breet speak about the benefits of organic farming and syntropic agroforestry - and about being able to demonstrate these benefits at the respective farms. Both consider farm visits as a great option to educate their visitors on where and how food is actually grown. It is interesting to listen to them speak about their different target groups and the joy of working at a farm.