NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that ...

For the last twenty years, Sarah Nyaga, a smallholder farmer from Embu County in central Kenya, has farmed coffee. Like most across Kenya, she relies on the export market. A greater percentage of ...

The more I’ve learned about alternative surfboard manufacturing, the more I become impressed by the innovation and ingenuity popping up around the world–whether it’s a seaweed and beeswax resin board ...

Just outside Nairobi, in the lush hills of Tigoni, we discovered Kenya’s most surprising culinary secret, Brown’s Cheese Farm. Known for producing over 30 varieties of handcrafted cheese, this ...

In the lush tea fields of the Sitoi Estate in Nandi Hills, Kenya, a quiet standoff with deep colonial-era roots is underway. Women like Milka Chapkwony are back in the fields, picking tea not as ...

Shalom Farm sits on 25 acres of land in Kitale, Kenya, boasting a wide range of crops including bananas, sweet potatoes, spinach, collard greens, traditional vegetables, maize and beans, which are ...

A mushroom farm in Kenya and fungi-based panels give hope for sustainable building A large mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, ...