2.1 Kitchen and Backyard Gardening

• Roles of kitchen and backyard garden in food production: production of fresh healthy foods, saving money and readily accessible food
• Establishing a kitchen or backyard garden and planting vegetables, herbs and spices
• Kenya kitchen crops: sukuma wiki, dhania, onion, spinach, customer and terere
• Taking care of crops in the kitchen and backyard garden

• explain the role of kitchen and backyard garden in food production
• establish a kitchen and backyard garden for food production
• adopt the use of kitchen and backyard garden for food production

“How does kitchen garden contribute to food production?”

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1. Kitchen and backyard gardens
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   A kitchen garden is a small food bed by the cooking door; a backyard garden is the larger plot behind the house. Both produce food for the family.
2. Fresh healthy food
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   A kitchen garden produces fresh, healthy food because leaves can be picked and cooked the same day, from soil you manage.
3. Saving money
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   A kitchen garden saves shillings because seed and manure are paid once, then leaves are picked for weeks instead of buying a bundle every market day.
4. Readily accessible food
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   A kitchen garden makes food accessible: no fare, no closed kiosk, pick only what you need, at dawn or dusk.
5. Preparing the garden
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   Establish a kitchen or backyard bed on a sunny, drained site near the house: clear, jembe, manure, level and water, using safe tools.
6. Sukuma, spinach, customer and terere
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   Plant Kenyan leafy vegetables in the prepared bed: sukuma wiki, spinach, customer kale and terere, then pick leaves without uprooting the plant.
7. Dhania and onion
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   Add herbs and spices to the kitchen garden: dhania sown shallow and kept moist, onion in sunny rows for greens or bulbs.
8. Tending the crops
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   Tending means watering the soil, weeding early, adding manure and mulch, checking pests, and picking so the kitchen garden keeps producing.
9. Adopting the kitchen garden
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   Adoption means using the garden for real meals at school and starting a home bed or sack so the skill feeds the family.