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Evans Ouwor Odula and Elin lindhagen Duby, 2011 TT-Medium, 14 pt
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I. OVERVIEW OF RUSINGA ISLAND Accent 6
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The total surface area of Rusinga island is 44.1 km2 Green
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Rusinga is of volcanic origin, the central parts are very hilly rising up to
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Less than half of the total area of Rusinga are used for agriculture as some at: 0.5"
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parts are very steep and deemed unsuitable for cultivation, the others are Numbering
used for roads, homesteads etc. Formatted: Font: Bold
The soils on Rusinga are developed on undifferentiated Tertiary volcanic Formatted: Font: Bold
rocks and on colluvium from volcanic rock and are deemed to have fairly low Formatted: Font: Bold
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Climate Formatted: Normal, No bullets
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Rusinga lies in the “Lower Midland Livestock-Millet Zone” with a (weak) 0.5"
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short to medium cropping season and intermediate rains. Formatted: Font: Not Italic
On average the annual rainfall is 800- 1250 mm, distributed unequally over
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Main rainy season stretches from March through May
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Shorter rainy season in November
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Shorter rainy season is too short to grow crops, which leaves only one main
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Socio-Economic Factors Formatted: Font color: Green
Rusinga has a population of 17 629 inhabitants, making it a density of 400 Formatted: Bullets and
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persons/km2, this is extremely high considering that a large part of the
population are subsistence farmers Formatted: Font: Bold
Between 1908 and 1920s there was a drastic decline in population on
Rusinga due to a sleeping sickness epidemic, but the population has
increased steadily ever since. Formatted: Font: Bold
The population on Rusinga are mainly Luo, this tribe migrated from the
region of the Nile in Sudan to the shores of Lake Victoria in the 15th C. Formatted: Superscript
Luo’s were originally cattle herders but today live mostly off fishing and Formatted: Font: Bold
subsistence agriculture. Formatted: Font: Bold
In Kenya’s political world, based on tribal identities, the Luo have often been
discriminated against and they have been poorly represented in decision-
making processes. As a result, the Nyanza region, where the majority of
Luo’s are based, is one of the poorer parts of the country, lacking in
infrastructure such as roads, electricity, medical infrastructure and safe
drinking water. Formatted: Font: Bold
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High population density is causing soil erosion and degradation, Formatted: Bullets and
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overfishing, deforestation and the loss of flora and fauna Formatted: Font: Bold
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environmentally marginal agricultural zones in the region’.1 Formatted: Font: Bold
In the last few years Rusinga Island has suffered from increasingly
unpredictable rainfall. In 2010 the second, short rainy season never came,
leaving the island in serious drought. 2011, up to the date of writing
(June) has so far not seen any proper rains. Locals are saying they have
not seen a year so dry since 1955. The crops are drying and people are
hungry, the President has pronounced it a state of emergency. Formatted: Font: Bold
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II. BADILISHA PERMACULTURE DESIGN Formatted: Font color:
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The Swahili translation of Badilisha is ‘transformation’ and this is exactly what Formatted: Font: Italic
Badilisha Ecovillage aims to achieve. It is hoped that the permaculture design at
Badilisha can serve as an inspiration for the local community for sustainable
agricultural practices and help raise awareness of the importance of preservation of
biodiversity and traditional knowledge of trees and plants.
Permaculture practices have the potential to help reverse the negative cycles of
environmental degradation with deforestation resulting in soil erosion, increasing
desertification and extended periods of drought. In order for the community to
really adopt new practices, they must however be able to see it work with their own
eyes. With the increasingly challenging climate and unpredictable rains it is going
to be essential to establish demonstration sites for truly resilient systems.
Badilisha also incorporates the other aspects of permaculture, focusing on building
healthy and long lasting relationships with the local community, working with
schools and youth and promoting education in non-violent communication. The
resource centre suggested in the design will serve as a focal point for this
community work. It is hoped that providing a centre for learning and gathering will
also inspire and promote interest in sustainable practices, especially amongst the
youth.
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Water Systems
1 Connelly, W T (1994) ‘Polulation pressure, labour availability and agricultural disintensification: The decline of farming
on Rusinga Island, Kenya’, Human Ecology, Vol 22, No 2, 145-170.
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Our research indicates that the annual rainfall for Badilisha is 800-1250 mm.
This means that the total amount of rainwater that could be harvested from
all existing buildings plus the new buildings planned is 214 412.5 litres per Formatted: Font: Optima
annum.
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well as the harvesting capacity from the road, please see the rainwater
collection spreadsheet in the Appendix.
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water, run off water from the road is directed into the system of swales by a
trench channel at the back of the office. Overflow from water tanks directed
into swales.
Aquaculture system help store more water on the land whilst also providing
fertilised water for crops
Mulching everywhere helps retain moisture in the soil
A back up drip irrigation system fed by a water tank, using water from the
lake pumped with a solar pump feeds a drip irrigation system kept
underneath mulch to avoid evaporation
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Nutrient Cycling Formatted: Font color: Green
The two kitchens and showers use banana circles as ‘greywater to food’
systems
Nitrogen fixing and phospate fixing perennial plants are used in throughout
the design to build fertility
Thermophyllic compost heaps and wormery for soil fertility
Compost toilets provide for a humanure compost heap which feeds the trees
in the food forest
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digester will anaerobically process the human waste from the toilets. The
sludge will grow high protein fodder for the cows then can be processed
through the worm composting systems.
Vetiver grass in food forest is cut and used as mulch
Use of ‘chicken tractor’ system for integrated pest management, soil
preparation in alley cropping system, indigenous food crops garden,
medicinal herb garden and food forest
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Food Forestry in the centre of the site producing fruits, tubers, beans, peas
and herbs
Mandala garden producing a diverse range of vegetables, tubers and fruits
Alley cropping system producing staple crops, vegetables, tubers, legumes,
squashes, fruits and sunflowers for cooking oil production
Small herbs garden and medicinal herb mandala garden for medicinal and
kitchen herbs
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Indigenous food plant garden for production of various indigenous food
crops as well as seeds
Several banana circles producing sweet potato, lemongrass, banana and paw
paw
Chickens, ducks and quails for eggs
Mudfish pond for fish. Formatted: Font: Bold
Medicinal Herbs Formatted: Font color: Green
A variety of local medicinal plants for primary health care are planted in the Formatted: Bullets and
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medicinal herb garden including various indigenous medicinal plants, in an
effort to preserve local traditional knowledge. Formatted: Font: Bold
Medicinal plants for every day use such as lemongrass are also planted in the
small herbs garden next to the kitchen. Formatted: Font: Bold
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Neighbourhood Stewardship/ Community Formatted: Font color: Green
A feeding programme is operated to the neighbouring school. Formatted: Bullets and
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School children from surrounding schools help provide mulch material for Formatted: Font: Bold
Badilisha and are also invited to participate in activities. Formatted: Font: Bold
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Energy Formatted: Font color: Green
Combination of solar and wind to ensure a more consistent power supply
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Biogas system for cooking. Formatted: Bullets and
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Resource Recycling Accent 11, Add space between
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Iron sheet from the education hall walls to be re-used for roofing on guest
houses and guest kitchen
Old refrigerators used for the seed bank. Formatted: Font: Bold
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III. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ELEMENTS IN DESIGN
Elements listed are numbered according to the map. Formatted: Font: Not Bold,
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1. NURSERY Formatted: Font color: Green
Nursery for tree seedlings and food crops.
Behind the nursery at the corner, a mulch pit where water from the road
enters and feeds into first swale through a channel behind the office building.
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2. OFFICE, RESOURCE CENTRE AND SEED BANK Formatted: Font color: Green
Two office rooms and a large room with library and computers to serve as a
resource centre on permaculture, non violent communication, sustainable
community development and education.
The office also stores the seeds from the seed garden in a seed bank.
NB: Seeds could be stored in traditional way using neem and ash.
Office is solar and wind powered. The combination of solar with wind will
ensure a more consistent power supply, especially with the increased use of
energy in the resource centre with new computers. A battery and an inverter
already exists for the solar system.
Office building has two rainwater tanks, one of 5000 L and one smaller of
500 L. Water from these tanks and their overflow feeds the small food forest
below the office building and the mandala garden.
Already existing:
Office rooms with tables and one computer.
One set of shelves with books
Solar system with inverter and battery
Guttering for half of office building and 5000 L water tank
Needed:
Wind power system to supplement the solar system.
Computers for the resource centre.
More books and more shelves for the library.
Shelves for seed bank and air tight storage units
Guttering for half of the office building and a 500 L water tank.
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A small herbs garden just outside of the office/resource building with several
indigenous and medicinal herbs. The small herbs garden is placed close to the
kitchen and eating area for everyday use.
Already existing: Herb garden with neem, lemongrass, aloe vera, vinca rosea,
euphobia hirta.
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4. SHOP Formatted: Font color: Green
Building next to watchman’s hut, selling produce from Badilisha (vegetables,
herbs, seeds) and essential commodities for visitors and volunteers. Shop- front
facing the road with a space next to the shop for sitting.
Shop build with ‘ferro cob’ using the same techniques as ferro cement, with
chicken wire and mesh but using cob instead of cement. This will serve as a
demonstration of different natural building techniques available and their value.
The building is designed to have maximum airflow.
The watchman’s hut and the gate already provide shade from the afternoon sun
but a small tree is also planned for better shading.
Consider “cob” or “ferro-cob” with steel roof to save money and demonstrate to
people how efficient and beautiful buildings can be built with local materials. I
would design to have maximum airflow and protection from the west sun.
The shop has a 500 L watertank, fed also from the watchman’s hut. This water is
used for the nursery and the small herbs garden next to the shop. The overflow
of the water tank is directed into a trench by the road, which then feeds into the
system of swales.
Needed:
Building materials- cement, sand, wood
Shelves
Chair
Cash box
Guttering for watchman’s hut and shop
500 L water tank
Signage
5. WORMERY Formatted: Font color: Green
Wormery fed with kitchen scraps. This provides excellent fertiliser for the
mandala garden.
Already Existing:
Wooden structure for compost
Needed:
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6. COMMUNITY TOILET Formatted: Bullets and
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A small ferro cob building with entrance towards the road, serving as a public Formatted: Font: Optima
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surrounding community working on permaculture design as a community share.
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Consider having a community share tool shed for others working on pc
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Already existing.
A mud and wood structure with iron sheet roof
2 spades, 1 wheelbarrow, 5 hose pipes, 2 machete, 1 rake.
Needed:
4 Hammers, 4 handsaws, 4 spades, 4 rakes, 4 forks, 4 matok, 4 wheelbarrows
Several pairs of gloves, rubber boots and protective clothing
Laser level for broad acre work
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initial funding i.e. laser level for broad acre work
7.9. BANANA CIRCLE Formatted: No underline, Font
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A banana circle with bananas, lemongrass and sweet potatoes planted around a Formatted: Bullets and
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greywater, ensuring water is reused. Continue to experiment with growing
different food species in this banana circle
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Simple kitchen with three rocket stoves and an outdoor oven for cooking.
Eventually, once the site is more established a biogas system will be installed
with a gas stove.
Rocket stoves are built with banana stalk, clay, sand, cow dung and a metal Formatted: Font: Bold, No
plate which are all available locally for free (small metal cut off’s are easy to find). underline, Font color: Auto
They are easily built and fully biodegradeable apart from the one small metal
plate.
The rocket stoves are designed to improve fuel efficiency and reduce
consumption of fire wood up to 70%. This is due to a specific airflow system
which improves combustion, in combination with circulation of the hot air which
increases the contact time of the flame with the pot. To further increase
efficiency of the stove, the clay is built up around the pot, which provides more
thermal mass and contains the heat, thus further decreasing cooking time.
Rocket stoves will also be fuelled by castor oil seeds from castor oil plants
planted on the site. Castor oil seeds contain a lot of oil and burn very well. The
seeds and their seed pods are simply crushed up and used like kindling. A
handful of crushed up seeds will provide for the cooking of one dish easily,
potentially fed with a stick or two if needed. This way the use of firewood is
further decreased.
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At the back of the kitchen a pergola structure provides shade for washing dishes
with climbers such as passion fruit. A table (you could build with ferro cement
with a drainage to the banana circle) for washing dishes, a drying rack for the
dishes, and a sink ensures the women working in the kitchen do not have to
stand bending down when washing dishes. Dish-water is fed by a pipe from the
sink to banana circle.
Already Existing:
Simple iron sheet structure.
Fire place inside for cooking
A model rocket stove has just been built under the shade roof.
Needed:
Wood for pergola structure
Climbers for pergola
Clay outdoor oven (clay and sand)
More rocket stoves (clay, sand, cow manure, banana stalk and a metal
plate)
Table, sink and pipe for washing up station
Shelves for utensils
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Simple rondavel with thatched roof and reed mats as walls. Inside four tables and
chairs for eating. To be used as eating area for school children part of feeding
programme as well as course participants.
Already Existing:
Basic structure with reed mats as walls
Needed:
Roofing materials for thatching
Four tables and chairs for eating area inside.
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Hall for courses, workshops and meetings with chairs and tables. The hall has an Formatted: Bullets and
iron sheet roof, cement floor and walls built from mud in traditional Luo style. Numbering
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The hall is designed for airflow by building walls only ¾ of the way up and
keeping the space between the wall and the roof covered in mesh for insects.
Protection from the hot western sun is provided by the living fence just behind
it. Outside of the hall is a pergola structure with climbers for shade.
Connected to the hall is a resource room with shelves for teaching materials.
The hall is powered by solar system and a small wind turbine and has an
adequate battery back up system to power teaching tools, i.e. digital projector,
tv, sound equipment, etc.
Already existing:
Iron sheet hall
30 plastic chairs
two blackboards
clock
Needed:
Mud and clay to convert walls into natural building
Mesh for insects for windows
Cement to make the floor and ensure walls do not degrade so fast
5 tables and 25 chairs
Door for resource room entrance
Shelves for resource room
Boards for ceiling
Gutters all around building and two water tanks of 5000 L to feed pond
system, one water tank placed next to chicken coop
Pergola structure made out of wood for shading outside hall and climbers
Solar system and small wind turbine with extra battery and inverter and
a lighting system.
Projector
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TV with DVD
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13. a) RABBITS Formatted: No underline, Font
The rabbits are placed behind the hall in a small area around the swale fenced color: Green
off for them to forage. The rabbit hutches are constructed according to Toby Formatted: Bullets and
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Hemmenway’s combination of rabbit hutch with worm bin. In this system, a
wire-bottomed rabbit hutch is elevated on posts and an open wooden bin
placed below. Shredded newspaper or dry leaves are placed in the bin to a
depth of 6 iches. The bin collects rabbit manure, urine and spilled food. Once
the bin is full, red worms are added and a new box placed underneath. The
first bin is left to produce worm compost.
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simple, very small rabbit hutch
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b) QUAILS Formatted: Font: Optima, Bold,
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A small quails hutch is provided for nesting. In the day time quails mostly Formatted: Normal, Indent:
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Small quails hutch Formatted: Bullets and
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14. DUCKS AREA WITH ELEVATED DUCKS BATH
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surrounding fruit trees. Ducks will feed on grasses, slugs and kitchen scraps. Numbering
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shelter for ducks- wood, mesh and nails Formatted: Font: Bold
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15. FISH POND Formatted: Font: Optima, Bold
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A mud fish pond with reeds and small bamboo around it. The pond is dug in a Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.75"
flower shape so as to increase the amount of fertile edge space. Small habitats
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Just before the pond a small duck bath is created from the overflow, providing
more habitat for the ducks.
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Mudfish
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An African ‘green house’ which is basically a polytunnel covered with a light
canvas and netting to ensure shading. Used to grow various species of
vegetables.
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11.CHICKEN
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11. , RABBIT AND QUAILS HOUSES
Chickens, rabbits and quails placed above the pond so that nutrients will flow
into the water. The houses are also placed just next to the food forest so that
they can be let out there.
Each of the animals, the quail, rabbits and chickens have slightly different needs.
Hutches are not the most ideal for them. Rabbits need a place in the heat to have
a burrow to be in optimum health. We create these for them with an area to
forage and a protected cage. The best chicken systems are the food forage forest
systems for them. It may be worth considering moving the chickens to the food
forest area (28) and having their shelter, roost, etc, on the edge of that system. I
would also have ducks associated with the pond system to fertigate the waters.
The quail can mostly free range once plants have established.
Already existing:
Chickens, rabbits and quails
Temporary structures
Needed:
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A mud fish pond with reeds and small bamboo around it. Associated ducks with this Formatted: Bullets and
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pond site by digging a hole a meter deep and fill with water and see how long it takes to underline, Font color: Auto
drain. If it takes days, this is good. If not, it will need additional clays like the stuff from the Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
hill we used on the rocket stove. Then it can be gleyed for a final seal. Also create little
habitats with rocks, logs etc. for increased speciation and protection for little guys from the
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Labour to dig out the pond – ASK WARREN See comments above.
Mudfish
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A mixed cropping system with plants selected for their function in the system as color: Green
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support each other as well as helping to increase soil fertility, attract beneficial
insects, repel pests and cover the soil to retain moisture. This is where staple
crops are grown for the feeding programme, as well as sunflowers for cooking
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oil. The combination of agroforestry with growing staple crops creates a more
diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable system.
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Trees: Calliandra, Leucena, Mulberry and Sesbania,
Used for fodder, mulch and compost
Crops between tree systems:
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Insect repellant: desmodium
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Needed:
desmodium, pumpkin, squash, watermelon seeds
lentils, beans and green gram seeds
sunflower seeds
maize seeds of a good variety
pineapples for cuttings
another thought is creating cooking oil with sunflower as a staple crop
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b) COMPOST PILE FOR ALLEY CROPPING
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Numbering
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A ‘zone 5’ forest with indigenous trees for contemplation, observation,
preservation of species and demonstration for the community. The indigenous
forest also has bee hives.
Signs for every tree with information on the species and its uses.
Already existing:
Neem tree
Needed:
Ochol, Kang’o, Sang’la, Pedo, Powo and Otati seedlings (Luo names, all
available locally)
Bee hives and bees
Does this include the huge fig species you see at the sacred sites around Formatted: Bullets and
Rusinga? Numbering
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15.19. BEE HIVES Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Bee hives with native bees. Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
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color: Green
A round hut, 5.8 m diameter with mud walls, painted in Luo style with iron sheet
roof, collecting rainwater to a rainwater tank shared with guest kitchen. Inside Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
four single beds and a round table around the centre pole. A meditation Formatted: Font color: Green
Guest house is powered by a solar system.
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Already existing:
Basic structure with wooden poles and iron sheet roof
Needed:
Mud walls and paint from soil
Door and mesh for windows
Guttering all around with gutter stretching to guest kitchen water tank
Four single beds and a round table
Sheets, pillows and mattresses
Wind turbine and lighting system inside, small charging station for
phones and other electronic equipment
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16.21. PAW PAWBANANA CIRCLE color: Green
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Numbering
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Paw PawBanana circle with paw pawbananas, lemongrass, cassava and sweet
potatoes fed by dish water from guest kitchen, to ensure water is recycled. . I
would consider doing a paw paw overstory to demonstrate a different system
17.22. SHOWERS Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Simple structures with reed mats as walls around showers. Water is fed into Formatted: Bullets and
mulch channels around showers with bananas planted around to create more Numbering
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privacy as well as to ensure to recycle all water. .
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Black piping on the kitchen roof to be used to create hot water showers if
desired.
Needed: Formatted: Indent: First line:
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reed mats Formatted: Bullets and
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buckets for shower Formatted: Font: Bold
black pipe Formatted: Font: Bold
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18.23. GUEST KITCHEN Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Simple Luo style round hut with mud walls, mud floor and iron sheet roof with Formatted: Bullets and
guttering feeding into a 5000 L water tank. Inside a table for preparing food, Numbering
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rocket stoves for cocking, shelves for plates, utensils and food storage. Eating
area with two tables and chairs.
Black pipe on roof of guest kitchen curled up creates an easy water heating
system.
Needed:
Wood, nails, mud, clay and cow dung
Iron sheet for roofing and guttering
Labour
2 eating tables, 15 chairs and 1 table for preparing food
rockets stoves made with banana stalks, clay, sand and cow dung
pots, pans, plates and eating utensils
5000 L water tank
Table outside for washing dishes
Vermiculture compost outside for kitchen scraps
19.24. FIRE PIT Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Fire pit with logs to sit on . Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
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Needed: logs to sit on.
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20.25. CAMPSITE Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Space for three or four tents. Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
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Needed: Trees for shade.
21.26. COUPLES GUEST HUT Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
A smaller Luo style round hut with double bed made out of traditional style Formatted: Bullets and
mud, clay and cow dung. With iron sheet roof and a small 500 L water tank. Numbering
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Needed:
Mud walls and paint from soil
Door and mesh for windows
Guttering all around
500 L water tank
A double bed
Sheets, pillows and mattress
Bedside tables
2 chairs
Lighting system
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22.27. INDIGENOUS FOOD CROPS AND SEED GARDEN Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Demonstration garden and seed garden for seed bank with traditional food crops Formatted: Bullets and
from the local area. All plants well marked with little signs with botanical and Numbering
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Luo name as well as its uses, including preparation.
Plants in seed garden are planted in clusters together of minimum 5 so as to Formatted: Indent: Left: 0.25"
ensure they are not cross fertilised.
Crops include:
Sorghum
Millet
Yams
Amaranthus blitum/ Michicha
Amaranthus hybridus/ Michicha
Asystasia Gangetica/ Atipa
Asystasia Mysorensis/ Atipa
Basella Alba/ Ndemra
For more information on the species in this garden please see the appendix. Formatted: Font: Italic
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Needed: Seeds and seedlings.
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23.28. MEDICINAL HERB GARDEN Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
A garden dedicated to medicinal herbs. Smaller herbs in a key hole bed with Formatted: Bullets and
larger shrub and medicinal around it. Botanical and Luo names, uses and Numbering
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preparations on little signs. I would consult with a local medicine person who
works with the herbs to see what they think. Sometimes there are certain ways
to grow medicinals to maximize their healing properties.
Plants include:
Artemisia
Aloe Vera
Garlic
Vinca Rosea
Lemongrass
Papaya
Cassia Occidentalis
Cassia Alata
Kalanchoe Piñata
Tithonia Diversifolia
Ginger
Moringa Oleifera
Moringa Stenopetala
Phaseolus Vulgaris
Datura Stramonium
Amaranthus Gracilis
For more information about medicinal plant species and their uses please see the Formatted: Normal, Indent:
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appendix. numbering
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24.29. MEDITATION TREE AND CIRCLE Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Large circle shaded by a large tree underneath which a cob seat has been created Formatted: Bullets and
for meditation, contemplation and sun set watching. Flowers and aloe vera Numbering
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planted all around the edges.
Needed:
Aloe vera and flowers
25.30. PIT LATRINES CONVERTED INTO COMPOST TOILETS Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Two pit latrines in cement with cement floors to be converted into compost Formatted: Bullets and
toilets for production of humanure compost. The whole in the floor would be Numbering
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covered and a seat created with a 5 litre bucket underneath for collecting the
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humanure compost. A separate bucket next to the seat with saw dust/ mulch
should be available at all times. The compost is composted in a fenced off and
covered compost just behind the compost toilets.
Already existing:
Two cement pit latrines
Needed:
2x5 l buckets
2 buckets for carbon
wood for floor and for seat.
ventilation tubes
paint for the walls
insect repellant dried flowers
guttering around pit latrines and showers and 500 l water tank
humanure compost piles behind compost toilets
o wood for boxes, fence around the compost piles and a iron sheet
for cover
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color: Green
26.31. SHOWERS
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Already exisiting showers in cement buildings with bucket showers. Formatted: Font color: Green
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color: Green
Banana circle fed by showers in no 26. Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
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33. HUMANURE COMPOST PILE
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Numbering
A covered compost pile with a lid for humanure compost. Divided in two secions, Formatted: No underline, Font
one being filled and one being left decomposing or 6 months. color: Auto
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Numbering
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Needed:
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wood for boxes
fence around the compost piles Formatted: Font: Bold
iron sheet for cover Formatted: Font: Optima, No
underline, Font color: Auto
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28.34. FOOD FOREST at: 0.75"
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A food forest growing a variety of crops. The food forest uses companion Left: 0.25"
planting, intermixing plants to grow on multiple levels in the same area, just as Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
plants do in a forest.
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An already establishedThe food forest system haswith the following crops: Numbering
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Avocado Formatted: Bullets and
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Papaya
Neem
Mango
Lemon
Banana
Leucena
Acacia
Tipuana Tipu
Mulberry Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
Bugambilia Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
vetiver grass Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
lemon grass Formatted: Font: Optima, No
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cassava
sweet potatoes Formatted: No underline, Font
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cow-pea Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
desmodium Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
Artemisia Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
Rosemary Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
Moringa Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
passion fruit Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
gravilia. Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Auto
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Swale dug on contour, mulched and planted with sweet potatoes and desmodium Formatted: Indent: Left: 1"
as a cover crop and cassava and bananas on the outer side of the berm. The Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
swale acts to slow water coming down the slope and sink it into the soil, keeping
the soil continuously mulched ensures moisture is retained. Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
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36. CHICKEN AREA UNDERNEATH WATER TANK Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
Chicken house underneath structure for water tank for drip irrigation. The small
area of food forest is fenced in allowing chickens to forage.
The following species are planted as good foraging plants:
Needed:
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Amaranth Numbering
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Corn
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Millet
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Comfrey
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Pigeon Pea
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Sunflower
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Bananas
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Paw paw Formatted: Font: Bold
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A chicken tractor is also used for preparing the alley cropping system, the Accent 11, Bulleted + Level: 1
indigenous food crop gardens and the medicinal plant gardens. + Aligned at: 0.5" + Indent
at: 0.75"
The 5000 L water tank is a back up irrigation system pumping water from the
lake with a solar pump connected to a drip irrigation system.
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30.37. MANDALA GARDEN Left: 0.25"
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color: Green
A 9 m diameter mandala garden, highly productive due to the extensive amount
of edge space. Formatted: Bullets and
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The mandala garden is planted with various kitchen vegetables including :spider
plant, tomatoes, peppers, black night shade, kale and eggplant with onion and
garlic planted throughout for pest control. Cassava and banana planted around.
In the middle a mulch pit with bananas, cassava and sweet potatoes planted
around it. The mulch pit is covered by a grid and used as a shower.
Needed:
wooden grid for shower
bucket for shower
wooden pergola structure for climbers
climbers
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38. COMPOST HEAP Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
Two compost heaps, one in use and one being built. Building on the ‘compost in
21 days’ system. The process uses an aerobic process, it is a rapid bio digestion
process where the ideal conditions for the rapid growth and colonisation of
bacteria are created an maintained. This facilitates expedient destruction and
breakdown of organic materials, giving off heat as part of the biological reaction.
The process builds good compost in 18-21 days.
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31.39. SMALL FOOD FOREST Formatted: No underline, Font
Small food forest including banana and papaya as overstory, cassava as color: Green
understory, sweet potatoes as ground cover. Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
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Needed:
Sweet potato cuttings Formatted: Bullets and
Numbering
Cassava cuttings Formatted: Font: Bold
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PHOTOS OF BADILISHA Formatted: Indent: Left: 0",
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March 2011- PDC with Warren Brush
Mandala garden The site for the food forest
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View over Badilisha and food forest planted
May 2011
Food forest and part of Mandala garden Trees are mulched and doing well
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32.COMPOST HEAP Formatted: No underline, Font
color: Green
Two compost heaps, one in use and one being built. Building on the ‘compost in Formatted: Bullets and
21 days’ system. APPENDIX. Numbering
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List of Medicinal plants and their uses. Formatted: Font: Bold, No
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Evans could you please add in information here about medicinal plants from the Anamed Formatted: Font color: Auto
book. Please see format below. Formatted: Font: Not Bold, No
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Artemisia Formatted: Font: Not Bold,
Aloe Vera Italic
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Garlic Numbering
Vinca Rosea
Lemongrass
Papaya
Cassia Occidentalis
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Cassia Alata
Kalanchoe Piñata
Tithonia Diversifolia
Ginger
Moringa Oleifera
Moringa Stenopetala
Phaseolus Vulgaris
Datura Stramonium
Amaranthus Gracilis
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Brassica Carinata Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
English: Ethiopian cabbage/ Ethiopian mustard, Luo: Kandhira
Locally available Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Medicinal uses: Amongst the Luo, water obtainted after boiling leaves is used to treat color: Auto
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diahorrea. Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
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color: Auto
Carissa Edulis Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
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English n/a, Luo: Ochuoga 85
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Locally available
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Medicinal uses: This plant is among the most important sources of traditional medicine. Formatted: Font: Optima,
Roots are boiled and taken with soup to strengthen bones and general health amongst the Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
Kamba, Meru, Pokot and Maasai. It is also often taken with other plants for gonorrhoea. Formatted: Normal
The Kamba drink the boiled root extract for chest pain, whereas the Luo use it for Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
indigesion, lower abdominal pains in pregnant mothers, the Samburu for polio symptoms and
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the Pokot for headache and fever in children. The Nandi use a decoction from boiled Italic, No underline, Font
branches and leaves for treating breast cancer, headache and chest pains. color: Auto
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Other uses: Also good goat fodder and good hedge plant. Formatted: Font: Optima,
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color: Auto
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Cleome Gynandra Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
English: Bastard mustard/ Spider herb/ spider flower/ cat’s whiskers,
Luo: Dek (90)
Medicinal uses: An infusion from the root is used by the Makueni for chest pain. The Luo use Formatted: Font: Optima,
the vegetable as a cure for constipation. Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
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Coccinia Grandis Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
English: Ivy gourd/ Scarlet gourd, Luo: Mitkuru 92
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Available at Badilisha Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Medicinal uses: Leaves mixed with ghee are used for hima (pain on the side of abdomen and color: Auto
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lightening of the skin) in children. The medicine is applied externally. Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
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color: Auto
Euclea Divinorum Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
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English: n/a Luo: Ochol/Akado underline, Font color: Auto
Locally available Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Medicinal uses: This is one of the most important medicinal plants. Roots are boiled with the color: Auto
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roots of Croton dichogamus and the decoction used to treat chest pains, pneumonia and Formatted: Font: Not Italic
internal body pains amongst the Kamba. Amongst the Luo, Kamba, Tharaka and Nandi, a
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root infusion or boiled root (occasionally the bark) is widely used as a purgative. The Italic, No underline, Font
Machakos use it as a medicine for the spleen. Soup made from the bark is also taken as a color: Auto
worm medicine and the boiled root infusion is used for stomach ache and diarhorrea among
the Kamba and Pokot. The Kikuyu chew the roots for toothache. Formatted: Font: Not Italic
Other uses: The leaves are used as sleeping mats for initiates during their period of seclusion Formatted: Font: Optima,
amongst the Sabaot. The Kamba and Kikuyu use the roots and the Mbeere the bark as dye. Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
The wood is hard and usually small, used for building houses and grain stores, handles and
walking sticks. The branches are used as toothbrushes. Formatted: Font: Not Italic
Formatted: Font: Not Bold
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List of indigenous food crops and their uses
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Amaranthus Hybridus Formatted: Font: Bold, No
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English: Amaranth/ Chinese spinach/ Spiny amaranth/ Spleen amaranth Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
Luo: Ododo/ Omboga/ Alikira
Available at Badilisha Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Food uses: Leaves and young shoots are used as a vegetable. This is the most common and color: Auto
Formatted: Normal
most widely used in the wetter regions. Most of it is picked from the wild or occasionally it is Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
spared when found growing as a weed. In Nyanza the species is cultivated in small home
Formatted: Font: Optima,
gardens. Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
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Basella Alba Formatted: Font: Bold, No
underline, Font color: Auto
English: Vine spinach/ Indian spinach/ Ceylon spinach/ Malabar spinach
Luo: Ndemra
Locally available.
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Food uses: Leaves used as vegetable. Leaves are soft and usually cooked with other coarse Formatted: Font: Optima,
vegetables. Leaves are also given to cattle to increase milk yield in some places in Nyanza Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
(Homa Bay) Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
Formatted: Font: Optima
Brassica Carinata Formatted: Font: Bold, No
underline, Font color: Auto
English: Ethiopian cabbage/ Ethiopian mustard, Luo: Kandhira Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
Locally available Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Food uses: Leaves are used as vegetable. A popular vegetable amongs the Luo. Amongst the color: Auto
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Luo, leaves mixed with those of akeyo (Cleome gynandra) are boiled, made into lumps, dried Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
in the sun and stored in a clay pot as a dry season food. This can be eathen with apoth as
Formatted: Font: Optima,
mboga. The cooked vegetable has a characteristic sharo odur and is not bitter. Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
Medicinal uses: Amongst the Luo, water obtainted after boiling leaves is used to treat Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
diahorrea. Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
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Cajanus Cajan
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English: Pigeon Pea Luo: Obong (81) Formatted: Font: Bold, No
underline, Font color: Auto
Food uses: The peas from this plant may be mashed with other foods like potatoes, cooked Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
with maize, or made into a stew (mboga) and eaten with ugali. Amongst the Luo, the peas
Formatted: Font: Bold
are also boiled, mashed and rolled into balls or boiled with sorghum
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Italic, No underline, Font
Other uses: The stalks of obong are also used as firewood during the wet and planting color: Auto
seasons. It also serves as an important fodder plant during the dry season after crop harest. Formatted: Normal
The dry leaves and pods are important food for donkeys, cattle and goat. Formatted: Font: Not Italic
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Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
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Cleome Gynandra
Formatted: Font: Optima
English: Bastard mustard/ Spider herb/ spider flower/ cat’s whiskers, Formatted: Font: Bold, No
underline, Font color: Auto
Luo: Dek (90)
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Food uses: The leaves and flowers of Dek are boiled, then butter added and eaten with ugali Formatted: Font: Optima,
made from finger millet. In the Luo tradition this is served to important visitors such as in- Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
laws as a sign of respect. Dek is usually cooked with other vegetables such as cowpeas and Formatted: Normal
amaranth. In western Kenya milk is also added to reduce bitterness. The Luo also mix leaves
with those of kandhira (Brassica carinata), boil them, make them into lumps, dry them in the
sun and store them in a clay pot as a dry season food. Formatted: Font: Not Italic
Medicinal uses: An infusion from the root is used by the Makueni for chest pain. The Luo use Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
the vegetable as a cure for constipation. color: Auto
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Coccinia Grandis underline, Font color: Auto
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English: Ivy gourd/ Scarlet gourd, Luo: Mitkuru 92
Available at Badilisha Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Food uses: In the northen parts of Kenya the soft juicy, bright red fruits are eaten raw or the color: Auto
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ripe fruit may also be boiled in water, flour added and made into a stiff porridge. The Luo Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
use the young leaves as a vegetable.
Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
Medicinal uses: Leaves mixed with ghee are used for hima (pain on the side of abdomen and color: Auto
lightening of the skin) in children. The medicine is applied externally. Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
Formatted: Font: Optima,
Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
Corchorus Trilocularis
Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
English: n/a Luo: Apoth 102 Formatted: Font: Bold, No
underline, Font color: Auto
Available at Badilisha Formatted: Font: Bold
Formatted: Font: Optima,
Food uses: Leaves are eaten as a vegetable. The vegetable is slippery when cooked and hence Italic, No underline, Font
is normally mixed with other coarse vegetables, usually Gynandropsis gynandra, Crotolaria color: Auto
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brevidens and C. ochroleuca or cowpeas.
Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
Medicinal uses: The Luo uses Apoth cooked with cowpeas, milk and butter to aid breast Formatted: Font: Optima,
feeding mothers with lactation. Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
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Cordia Manioca Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
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English: Sandpaper tree, Luo: Oseno 103
Formatted ..
Locally available Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
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Food uses: The pulp of the fruit is eaten
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Medicinal uses: Roots are boiled and the extract taken for vomiting and malaria, especially Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
for children. The Tharaka also give leaf extract to animals and people to remove retained Formatted ..
placenta.
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Formatted ..
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Crotolaria Ochroleuca
Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
English: n/a Luo: Mito 107 Formatted ..
Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
Locally available
Formatted ..
Food uses: Leaves widely used as a vegetable in western Kenya. The vegetable is slightly Formatted: Normal
bitter and is normally cooked with milk or other vegetables such as cowpeas and Corchorus Formatted: Font: Optima, Italic
species.
Formatted ..
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Erucastrum Arabicum
Formatted: Font: Bold
English: n/a Luo: Nyaner Kadhira 129 Formatted ..
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Food uses: Leaves are eaten as a vegetable. color: Auto
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Grewia Bicolor Italic, No underline, Font
color: Auto
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English: n/a Luo: Powo 137 Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
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Food uses: Fruits are eaten raw. Occasionally the fruit is crushed and then eaten. Formatted: Font: Optima,
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Medicinal uses: Bark is chewed and placed on buts as a bandage by the Kitui. The Masai use color: Auto
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diahorrea in humans and mixed with another species (sokotwo)for the extraction of the
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English: n/a Luo: Obudho 156 Formatted: Indent: Left: 0"
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Food uses: Young, tender fruits of some small cultivars are eaten as a vegetable. The cooked
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Other uses: The gourd is used as a container by many African tribes.
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Ochol, Kang’o, Sang’la, Pedo, Powo and Otati Formatted: Font: Not Italic
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Building Number on Area catchment Rainfall Total
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Badilisha Permaculture Design Document, 2011 Formatted: Font: Optima, 8 pt
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map m2 mm2 litres
Toolstore 6 6.56 975 6396
Security house 4 6.55 975 6386
Community 2 56.88 975 55458
house
Education hall 10 62.37 975 60811
Guests hut 15 37.82 975 36874.5
Guest kitchen 18 37.82 975 36874.5
Kitchen 8 11.9 975 11602.5
Total 219.91 214 412.5
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