Leading the members of the Mazingira (means "Environmental" in Kiswahili) Development Group in making green manure tea. We used tithonia, a plant that fixes nitrogren from the air and grows abundantly along roadsides, walking paths and virtually everywhere.

Members sample some boiled green soybeans. While Kenyans eat green maize and groundnuts, they don't typically harvest soybeans early and boil them. I presented this edamame as a readily available and inexpensive dietary supplement for growing children or other people with high nutritional needs such as people living with AIDS.

A Mazingira member, Petere, and his wife stand in a pit used for brickmaking. They have started reclaiming the otherwise barren patch of subsoil as a vegetable garden, an important food security practice often overlooked in Kenyan villages.

Peter and his wife stand in a grove of bananas that were planted in a former brickmaking pit. With these banana trees, Peter is able to supplement his family's diet and sell extra bananas for a small income.