Hi everyone,

I’m working with a small non-profit team exploring ways to better support the global permaculture movement — especially when it comes to finding local projects, sharing resources, and connecting across regions.

We’re still very early in the process and would love to gather input directly from the community.
If you’re involved in permaculture in any way — or just exploring it — we’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts.

We put together a short feedback form (just a few questions).
Feel free to DM me or reply here if you’re open to sharing ideas or want to chat.

Thanks for being part of this movement! 🌿

– Elli

About the Agroindustry Support Project (ASP)

The Agroindustry Support Project (ASP) is a Government of Kenya initiative implemented in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). ASP is a flagship intervention under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), designed to catalyze agro-industrial growth across key value chains in crops, livestock, and agricultural equipment.

The project is spearheaded by the State Department for Agriculture and implemented through the Agriculture Transformation Office (ATO), with strategic support from Kenya Investment Authority (KenInvest) and the Agricultural Sector Network (ASNET).

Our Vision

To transform Kenya’s agroindustry into a competitive, inclusive, and sustainable engine of growth and job creation.

Our Mission

To strengthen business support mechanisms, enhance public-private partnerships, and improve the investment climate for agro-enterprises in Kenya.

What We Do

ASP supports:

• Capacity Building: Enhancing the skills and knowledge of over 200 public sector officers involved in agroindustry.
• Enterprise Development: Supporting over 400 agro-based enterprises across Kenya.
• Business Facilitation: Providing platforms for dialogue, investment promotion, and policy alignment across value chains.
• Digital Innovation: Promoting the use of digital tools like e-extension platforms to enhance advisory service delivery and data-driven decision-making.

Target Sectors

• Crop Value Chains: Including tea, coffee, edible oils, pyrethrum, rice, cotton, and more.
• Livestock Value Chains: Including dairy, beef, poultry, and leather.
• Agro-Processing Equipment: Promoting local and imported technologies to support mechanization and value addition.

Our Impact (2025–2029)

• National coverage across all BETA-priority counties
• Strategic support to County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs)
• Improved coordination between public and private actors for agroindustry growth
• Strengthened policy advocacy and data systems for investment facilitation

Partners

• Government of Kenya
• JICA
• KenInvest
• ASNET
• Private Sector Players across Value Chains

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Hi there! We have a small plot (only 5 acres) of boggy/marshy boreal forest near the Canadian border.

We have a small cabin there and hope to put a more permanently livable one in the future. In the meantime, I’m curious what folks think we should do with the land to make it more healthy and useful. It’s currently just kind of a mosquito farm.

There are some drainage ponds along one of our paths that I might deepen, but my partner is afraid that using mosquito dunks will negatively effect the ecosystem.

There is an occasional creek bed that I could clear/maintain to try to keep it flowing. It’s often dry, but will occasionally fill.

There is a grassy plain that floods once every few years, but otherwise acts a meadow when it’s drier.

The trees seem to be mostly Aspen, with a few birch, pine and ash mixed in.

I’d love more solid/dry land (a lot of is spongy during rainy times) but I understand that marsh has an important role in the whole system.

Any ideas on where I should start? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Im not interested in changing the marsh into a different kind of landscape, more interested in what people can do to be successful on marshy land. There is typically no standing water; all of the drainage ponds dry up most years.