William Rubel Agricultural

Plantings for 2023 Rainy Season

As of this writing, August, 2023, Idris is collecting seeds for trees and is planting in preparation for the October rainy season. Current seedling quantities are are limited by water.

Examples of seedlings in stock for the upcoming rainy season”

200 avacado

100 mango

250 Kayapa (tree used for fencing)

70 Local mahogany

150 Lmarggwet (cottonwood)

150 black passion fruit

40 papaya

40 Marubaine (three with 40 medicinal uses)

Vegetable crops

50 pili pili peppers plus more coming along

Many Skuma (kale)

A variety of flower seedlings are also available at the nursery.

William Rubel Agricultural, Feeding Station for Children, Pre-school and early Primary School

Memita Disables Tree Nursery and Creativity Center Opens Nursery School

Idris Lekaria, director of the Memita Disables Tree Nursery and Creativity Center in Wamba, Kenya, announces the opening of a school for young children in a village remote from a school. The teachers are trained teachers, but without work. The students are hungry, so the school will both provide education and food. If you would like to assist financially with this project, please use the contact form. Thank you.

William Rubel Agricultural

Idris Lekaria’s Memita Disables Tree Nursery, Wamba, Kenya

Idris Lekaria, horticulturalist, is the founding director of the Memita Disables Tree Nursery, in Wamba, Kenya, is the only nursery in Samburu East. As a nursery specializing in trees, its primary focus is afforestation, or, as founder Idris Lekaria puts it, “Making the land green again, and fruity.” Food scarcity is an issue so one component of the nursery’s tree growing program is to grow fruit trees and fruit bearing vines, like passion fruit. Then nursery also grown vegetables and ornamental plants, produce pots and concrete tables, and offers training programs in what for the Samburu is the new art of gardening. Idris is a well trained horticulturalist who has developed a set of best practices for horticultural projects in the arid environment of the arid equatorial North.

If you are interested in supporting this nursery, even small donations would make a difference. There are also opportunities for staying at the nursery in Wamba to help with Idris’ project through a work-stay ecotourism experience. Use the contact form if you are interested and I will get in touch with Idris.