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Kisumu residents shift to kitchen gardens as high cost of living bites

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Everlyn Okoth waters vegetables in her kitchen garden in Nyalenda, Kisumu. [Michael Mute, Standard]

A stroll inside some of Kisumu's urban dwellings and estates reveals a practice that is rapidly becoming common.

Behind the houses of several tenants, small gardens plush with fresh vegetables flourish under the hot-and-humid weather, waiting to be harvested.

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