Welcome to Hillside Organic Garden, Kabete — a living classroom for regenerative agriculture. Learn how to restore your soil, grow nutrient-dense food, and build a garden that gets better every year.
We inspire and train people how to do it — starting with a hillside in Kabete.
Prolonged use of synthetic fertilizers and herbicides, coupled with soil erosion, leaves our arable soil depleted. The capacity of these soils to produce good harvest at the lowest cost deteriorates — and we end up needing to put more synthetic fertilizers to produce even less harvest each year.
Regenerative farming ensures that the soil improves every year rather than deteriorates. It restores the all-important organic component of soil — rebuilding microbial activity that improves fertility, physically and chemically.
Nature is the best teacher.
Real yields, no synthetic inputs.
Community grows the practice.
Every garden matters.
Everything we grow and make comes from the same regenerated soil.
Our animals are raised organically for our own food and for sale of the extra. We sell kienyeji eggs, chicks and meat. We also keep rabbits and catfish.
We produce our own organic fertilizers, soil amendments, potting soil, and native microbes — the ingredients that rebuild living soil.
We sell the vegetables we grow organically — and we eat the same food. Nutrient-dense, freshly harvested, and honest.
Fruit and herb plants, splits and seeds — including heirloom maize and vegetable seeds for anyone planning to establish a garden.
"Using mulch and compost has been the game changer at Hillside."
Alice Mwangi · FounderWe learnt from nature, and the rewards have been generous. So we pass them on.
Every season, the soil improves — a little more organic matter, a little more life.
Nature teaches; we listen. Mulch, compost, microbes, water — the rest follows.
We share seed, knowledge and harvest. Neighbours become regenerative gardeners.
A ¼ acre urban plot can feed a family — and become a teaching centre.
Notes from the garden — observations, tips and stories.
LifeHack
How a simple mulch layer turned dry, depleted soil into a living sponge that holds water and feeds microbes.
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Nature
Disturbing the soil is expensive. Leaving it alone turned out to be the cheapest, most productive choice we ever made.
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Learning
Growing indigenous maize and vegetables isn't nostalgia — it's resilience. Here's how we save our own seed.
Read articleWe are a leader in organic farming in Kabete. Come learn, buy produce, or simply visit the garden. Everyone is welcome.