I AM MOTHERLAND.
Up to 37% is lost after it: in storage, on the road, at the market. MOTHERLAND builds the whole chain with more than 2,000 farmers in Kenya, from living soil to a fair market.
A good harvest alone is not enough. To turn it into income, every link has to hold: healthy soil, good seed, know-how at harvest, dry storage, transport, reliable buyers and a fair price. If one is missing, the value is lost. So we build the whole chain, together with the farmers and our partner organisation MOTHERLAND CBO.
Compost, organic fertiliser and regenerative methods. Healthy soil holds water and carbon and yields more.
Certified seed as a loan. After harvest it flows back into the seed bank.
72.1% returned (2025)Training on timing, drying and sorting. Lima AI advises on WhatsApp in English, Swahili and Dholuo.
Joint collection, airtight storage and logistics all the way to the buyer.
We pool the harvest and bring it to committed buyers. The price is fixed before planting.
KSh 125 instead of 75 per kgMore income for families. And part of it flows back into soil and seed.
83.7% earn moreBACK INTO THE SOIL, SEASON AFTER SEASON
SIAYA COUNTY, KENYA
OUR VISION
We do not only want to change how food is produced, but who receives its value: economically independent communities in which young people see a future on their families' land.
"I have no stress about inputs, and I have no stress about the market. MOTHERLAND has given me both. Now I focus on farming and on leading the farmers around me."
With 50 € a month you become part of something that grows. You help make compost, regenerate soil, keep pure seed in circulation, store carbon in the ground and bring back biodiversity. You make sure less of the harvest is lost, that farmers reach fair markets and that their fields withstand the climate. And you show children in our school gardens that farming has a future.
And you make possible what grants rarely pay for: the people who do this every day, our team in Siaya and in Germany. 200 people giving 50 € a month means 10,000 € for the whole system.
And you are right in it: once a month you join us and the team from Siaya on the Circle call. Every three months we write down honestly what happened, including what did not work.
3 of 200 have already joined. The first roots are in.
WE ARE THE SOIL WE EAT · OUR CAMPAIGN WITH THE PEOPLE OF SIAYA
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.”
In 1990, Voyager 1 turned around six billion kilometres from the sun and photographed Earth: a tiny blue point of light. Everything we know happens on that dot.
The M in our name stands for Africa, the motherland of all of us. The small blue dot next to it is that planet. One home, shared by everyone, and there is no second one.
Everything we eat grows from its soil. And what we eat becomes who we are.
FROM THE FIELD · OUR SUBSTACK
On Substack, Diana and the team tell what happens in the field: what works, what goes wrong and what we learn. More than 1,000 people read along.
NEW ON THE BLOGThe Map Is A Problem. It Was Simply Never The Whole Problem.DIANA BEATA KRÜGER · READ →All posts →
200 people giving 50 euros a month keep the Local Impact Teams in the field, Lima AI running and the organization behind them stable. Every member makes the next harvest more secure.
LEARNING FROM THE MOTHERLAND gUG · NON-PROFIT · HAMBURG · TAX DEDUCTIBLE · INSTANT RECEIPT VIA BCAUSE
