How Makueni farmer is using liquor bottles to fight hunger

Charity Mueni displays assorted seeds contained in used liquor bottles at Kayata Village in Makueni County. [Photo/Patel Mulevu]

Used liquor bottles are easily dismissed as an environmental eyesore. But to Charity Mueni, a peasant farmer at Kayata Village in Makueni County, they hold the key to food security.

The mother of two grows maize, mung beans, cow peas, pigeon peas, sorghum and assorted bean varieties hailed as highly nutritious on a three-acre parcel of land. She also grows cassava, sweet potatoes, oranges and bananas. She also keeps indigenous chicken, goats and fish.