🌿 About Me

Hello dear friends! My name is Polo Roseline, a trained permaculture teacher and designer from Homa Bay County, Kenya. I completed my full 2-week Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) with Paul Odiwuor Ogola of PermoAfrica Centre, graduating in June 2023.

This training changed my life. It helped me reconnect with traditional wisdom, understand ecological design deeply, and see how regenerative agriculture can lift entire communities out of poverty. After graduating, I asked myself one question:

“How do I bring this knowledge home to my people?”

The answer became Happy Organic Farm.

🌻 About Happy Organic Farm

Happy Organic Farm is a community permaculture teaching, demonstration, and training site, registered with the Government of Kenya. It is located in Oneno Village, Korayo Sub-Location, Kochia Central, Homa Bay County.

Our vision is simple and powerful:

🌍 Earth Care

❤️ People Care

🤝 Fair Share

We work to reconnect local farmers—especially women, youth, and vulnerable households—to sustainable gardening, soil restoration, and chemical-free organic farming.

We formed small farming groups so that new regenerative practices can spread quickly across villages suffering from climate change, low yields, and decades of soil degradation.

🌳 Additional Skills & Continued Learning

As part of strengthening this ongoing work, Rose completed Syntropic Agroforestry training in July 2025 with Roland van Reenen and Esther Njeri (Dee J Essy) in Kitui, Kenya. This additional training built on the foundation of Happy Organic Farm, adding forest-based farming systems and land-restoration techniques that support long-term resilience, soil regeneration, and increased food production.

🌾 What We’re Doing Right Now

With the help of our community members, we are actively working on:

🌱 Restoring degraded soils

👩🏽‍🌾 Training farmers in organic and permaculture techniques

👩‍👧 Supporting women and youth with hands-on skills

🥬 Growing vegetables and staple crops for food security

🤝 Strengthening small community farming groups

🏗️ Improving infrastructure at our teaching site (including fencing)

💧 Preparing for the dry season through mulching, compost, and water conservation

Every week, we take small steps that grow into big change.

💛 Current Needs

Your donation today will help support these immediate needs:

🍚 Food support for volunteers and training groups

🚐 Transport costs for community outreach

🛠️ Tools and materials for soil restoration and gardening

🌾 Seeds and seedlings for continuous planting

🧡 Basic personal needs to help Rose remain stable while serving the community

🏡 Ongoing improvements at the farm, including fencing as a long-term priority

These needs may change slightly each week, but they all support the same mission:

empowering village farmers to grow healthy food, restore their land, and care for each other.

🤲 Why Your Support Matters

Our communities face ongoing drought, hunger, and climate challenges. Many households struggle to afford seeds, tools, or even basic food.

With permaculture training and shared effort, everything can change.

Your support helps us:

🌱 Build stronger, more resilient farming groups

👩🏽‍🌾 Ensure women and youth have economic opportunities

🌍 Teach chemical-free, regenerative agriculture

🥗 Increase food security through local organic production

🏡 Strengthen the demonstration site for long-term community impact

Even a small donation makes a real difference.

❤️ Join Us

If you feel inspired, please consider supporting this work today.

Every amount matters — even $5 helps buy seeds, tools, or food for volunteers.

👉 Please donate to support Rose and Happy Organic Farm

👉 Please share this campaign to help the work reach more people

Thank you for standing with us and believing in community-led change.

— Rose & the Happy Organic Farm Community

🌱 Support Polo Roseline & Happy Organic Farm

Empowering Women, Youth & Farmers Through Community Permaculture in Homa Bay, Kenya