Partner With Us
We are building infrastructure, establishing formal structures, and documenting every step. We are looking for supporters who believe in this journey — donors, institutions, fellow farmers, or anyone aligned with making small-scale farming more predictable.
Partnership Pathways
Development Partnership
We are looking for organisations, grant programmes, and knowledge partners who want to support a farm that publishes everything it learns. If you work in agricultural development, climate adaptation, or smallholder support, we would like to talk.
Grant Programmes
We are exploring alignment with the following programmes:
- WIDU.africa — Diaspora entrepreneurship support for African SMEs
- IFAD — Participation in county-level smallholder agriculture programmes
- KCIC — Kenya Climate Innovation Center green technology incubation
- GIZ develoPPP — Private sector development partnerships
Technology Partners
AgriTech companies, sensor manufacturers, and drone service providers working in precision agriculture for smallholder farming.
Knowledge Partners
Universities, research stations such as KALRO Mtwapa, county extension services, and farmer cooperatives with expertise in tropical soils, coastal horticulture, or precision agriculture for smallholders.
Future Investment Readiness
Equity investment is part of our longer-term plan, not our immediate ask. Once we have completed multiple crop cycles, deployed initial sensing equipment, and published verified yield and cost data, we will be positioned to seek investment partners to scale operations. If you are an investor interested in early visibility, we welcome the conversation — but the proof of concept comes first.
What Partners Receive
- Equity participation in a registered Kenyan agribusiness
- Quarterly financial and operational reporting
- Direct visibility into farm operations through IoT dashboards
- Impact metrics aligned with UN SDGs
Current Stage
Keragita Farms is operating in Gongoni Ward, Kilifi County. We are building our livestock shelter and seeking funding for water infrastructure. Our priority is consistent yields and documented results.
Transparency Commitment
We publish our progress openly through our journal. Every claim on this website carries a verification status: GREEN for verified current operations, AMBER for planned initiatives with defined triggers. We do not overstate where we are.
Technology Pilot Brief
This is a specific, scoped ask. If you manufacture sensors, build farm management platforms, or provide IoT connectivity — here is exactly what we need.
Equipment Required
- 1× Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus weather station with sonic anemometer and WeatherLink Live
- 4× Dragino LSE01 soil sensors (moisture, temperature, electrical conductivity)
- 1× LoRaWAN gateway (Dragino LPS8N or equivalent) with solar power kit
- Remote technical support for installation and sensor calibration
Site Details
- Location: Gongoni Ward, Kilifi County — GPS: -2.9863, 40.0454
- Farm size: 6 acres (green grams and maize intercrop)
- Connectivity: Safaricom 4G and Airtel 4G confirmed at the farm
- Power: Off-grid. Solar panels for all sensor and gateway power.
- Soil type: Black cotton with coastal salinity (laboratory test pending)
- Elevation: ~50 m above sea level, coastal lowlands
What We Provide
- The site — 6 acres in an underserved coastal semi-arid environment with no existing agritech deployments
- Installation labour and ongoing maintenance by our on-site farm manager
- 12 months of transparent, published reporting — including failures
- A documented case study with verified yield impact data, published openly
- Full access to all data collected during the pilot
Budget
Total equipment cost: ~KES 551,000 (~USD 4,240) landed in Kenya
Annual recurring: ~KES 25,000–35,000 (~USD 190–270) for subscriptions, 4G data, maintenance, and soil sample shipping
We are seeking equipment sponsorship, discounted pricing, or co-funded deployment. We are not asking for free equipment with no accountability — we are offering a published pilot with real data.
Timeline
- Deploy upon funding or equipment arrival
- 12-month pilot reporting period with quarterly published updates
- Final case study with full yield, cost, and sensor performance data
Why This Site
- A published, transparent pilot in one of East Africa’s most challenging deployment environments — any sensor or platform validated here has a proven case study for the broader coastal and semi-arid smallholder market
- Technically literate founder with data governance and AI/ML background
- Radical transparency — every result published, including equipment failures
- Underserved deployment environment — coastal Kenya, semi-arid, salt air, off-grid
Pilot Success Criteria (12 months)
A technology pilot without defined success criteria is just a donation request. These are the measurable outcomes we commit to evaluating.
- Uptime: Weather station and soil sensors report data for at least 90% of the pilot period, measured by daily data completeness logs.
- Data quality: At least 95% of sensor readings fall within manufacturer-specified operating ranges. Outliers flagged and investigated within 48 hours.
- Calibration accuracy: Soil sensor EC and moisture readings correlate within ±15% of CropNuts laboratory analysis (minimum 2 lab tests during pilot).
- Decision impact: At least 3 documented instances where sensor data informed a specific farming decision (e.g. irrigation timing, planting date, harvest timing).
- Equipment survival: All equipment operational after 12 months of coastal salt-air exposure, with documented maintenance log.
- Publication: Minimum 4 journal entries documenting sensor performance, data insights, equipment issues, and maintenance experience — all published openly.
- Case study: One co-authored case study suitable for the technology partner’s marketing use, covering deployment environment, challenges, data quality, and farming outcomes.
What We Need
Phase 1 covers 12 months of farm infrastructure, technology deployment, and operations. The founder is contributing KES 450,000 from personal funds. Here is the full budget and what we are asking partners to support.
- Underground water tank (50,000–100,000 litres): KES 500,000–800,000
- Perimeter fencing (chain link, 6 acres): KES 309,900
- Storage building (doubles as rainwater harvesting roof): KES 200,000
- Weather station and soil sensors: KES 551,000
- Drip irrigation system for 2 acres (watermelon/papaya): KES 70,000–140,000
- Cashew seedling establishment (0.5–1 acre, grafted KALRO varieties): KES 25,000–50,000
- Baseline soil analysis (CropNuts laboratory): KES 15,000
- Operating costs (12 months: labour, seeds, transport, veterinary, maintenance): KES 200,000–300,000
- Contingency (5%): KES 94,000–118,000
Total Phase 1 budget: KES 1,965,000–2,484,000. Founder contribution: KES 450,000. Net funding ask: KES 1,515,000–2,034,000 (~USD 11,700–15,600)
Disbursement: Tranche 1 (immediate) — water tank, fencing, storage building, soil analysis. Tranche 2 (upon construction completion) — sensors, drip irrigation, cashew seedlings. Tranche 3 (quarterly) — operating costs. All funds held in a dedicated Keragita Farms Ltd bank account with quarterly financial reporting.
In return, we deliver: a fenced and irrigated farm, 12 months of published sensor data, at least two completed crop cycles with full cost and yield reporting, a baseline soil analysis, quarterly financial reports, and a documented case study of precision agriculture deployment on a coastal Kenyan smallholding.
Path to Sustainability
We are not building a project that depends permanently on donor funding. The farm’s crop diversification plan targets financial sustainability within 24 months. Our MAM 2026 season (maize + green grams, 6 acres) projects KES 70,000–380,000 net depending on yields. Adding watermelon (70-day cycle, strong Malindi/Mombasa market) and papaya (hotel supply chain along the Malindi–Watamu coast) in OND 2026 significantly increases revenue potential. By Year 2, with water infrastructure in place and crop diversification established, we project KES 500,000–1,000,000 annual net farm income. Cashew trees planted in Year 1 begin producing in Year 4, adding a long-term anchor income stream. The open-data mission is sustained by the farm itself — publishing costs nothing beyond the time to write.
Partnership Concept Note
Our concept note covers the farm’s background, crop diversification plan, technology deployment roadmap, Phase 1 budget breakdown, projected returns over three years, and the impact thesis. 12 pages, last updated March 2026.
Download Concept Note (PDF)