A tiered cone garden full of leafy greens

A Garden That Keeps Producing

No child should sit in a classroom next to a dead garden.

Many schools want a food garden: for school feeding, for CBC agriculture and nutrition lessons, and to teach learners where food comes from. Starting one is easy. Keeping it alive through dry spells, holidays and staff changes is the hard part.

ARA installs climate-smart food-growing systems that fit a school compound, trains the people who run them, and stays on to keep them productive. We use cone gardens and moist beds because they grow a lot of food in a small space and use water carefully.

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What Your School Gets

Everything needed to go from an empty corner to regular harvests

Installation

Cone gardens and moist beds sized to your compound, filled with a compost-rich soil mix and planted with crops your kitchen uses.

Training

Two tracks: teachers, who link the garden to lessons, and groundskeepers, who handle watering, planting and day-to-day care.

Aftercare

Regular check-ins to replant, deal with pests and diseases organically, and fix problems before they kill the garden.

Harvest records

We log what the garden produces, so your board, county officers and partners can see results, not just photos.

Annual Maintenance Plans

After installation, choose the level of support that fits your school. We confirm visits and inclusions during your site visit.

  • Sustain
    KES 18,000 / year

    Keep it healthy

    For schools with a trained groundskeeper who need scheduled check-ins and expert backup.

  • Thrive
    KES 60,000 / year

    Fully supported

    Our most complete plan, for schools that want ARA to run the garden alongside them.

For Counties & NGOs

Running a school feeding, nutrition or climate-resilience programme? ARA can install and maintain gardens across many schools and share harvest data you can use in programme reporting.

  • One partner for installation, training and aftercare
  • Harvest records per school, logged from the first season
  • Climate-smart, water-wise technologies suited to dry spells
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Moist bed garden under shade net

How It Works

  1. Site visitWe look at your space, water source and sunlight, and agree what to grow with the head teacher.
  2. InstallationWe build the gardens, fill them with a compost-rich soil mix and plant.
  3. TrainingTeachers and groundskeepers learn to run the garden.
  4. AftercareYour maintenance plan keeps the garden producing, with harvests recorded.

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