How I started my ‘Garden of Eden’ in dry Machakos

Joseph Mutie's biggest challenge is marketing his produce.

After returning home from Afghanistan in 2013, where he was working as a truck driver for a US army contractor company known as Dyncorp International, Joseph Mutie, 30, decided to venture into farming fully, specialising in fruits and vegetables.

He used four acres of his father’s land to establish a green orchard with an assortment of fruit trees such as mangoes, lemons, oranges, pawpaws, Hass avocados, bananas as well as vegetables like  spinach, amaranthus, collard greens, tomatoes, capsicum, carrots, among others.