By Mutuma Muriuki, Agroecology Fellow Today we are here to talk about cabbages, the oldest and most widely grown vegetable of the Brassica group. Belonging to the mustard family, some other members of this group include broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, chinese cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, and turnips. Cabbage is a hardy vegetable that grows especially well in fertile soils. There are
For Teresia, farming is a synonym for living. It’s what she’s always known, what she has dedicated her life to. Farming is her home, her work, her family. She lives on a shamba in Githuguri, Kenya, with her husband Francis and one of her sons. They produce coffee, maize, kale, bananas and avocados, among many other things. Teresia grew up
Jessica Carey Sales & training manager Seeing Jackline Cherotich perform in our External Partners Training for Biogas Solutions Uganda Limited was a very touching experience for me. I met Jackie in November, 2019, my second week in the field with Sistema.bio in Kericho County in Kenya. It was a rainy day, cool weather, tea fields glistening with a deep lush
His parents were farmers. They grew maize, potatoes, wheat, and beans. This is how Norberto grew up, on a farm in Boyacá, Colombia, with his parents and his nine brothers and sisters. His parents’ hard and dedicated work was the basis of the family’s economy: “my parents harvested and sold the produce, and we fed ourselves from the farm. That’s
What drives our team is a passion for what we do, a devotion for changing this world. And Swati is a perfect example of this. Swati joined our team in India a year ago. Since then, she has become a true advocate for biogas, proactively looking for opportunities to change the way things are done. Swati comes from agriculture, a
Carlos is many things: a father, a son, a farmer, an engineer, a student, and a teacher. He grew up in the countryside, among wheat and cotton crops. Agriculture was his father’s specialty, a man that gave Carlos a farming tradition that has been with him all his life. Born in Mexicali, Baja California, Carlos dedicated a large part of
By Alex Eaton, Sistema.bio CEO It’s fitting to reflect on ten years working on the mission of Sistema.bio in the midst of a global crisis, as crisis is where the mission was born: climate change, poverty and the land and soil that supports humanity poisoned and running away under our feet. A swine-flu that had jumped to humans and killed
A long time ago, before Sistema.bio even formally started, we saw a lot of problems in the way this world was running. And when we first started our adventure, in an Influenza-ridden Mexico, we found a passion for finding solutions. It is thanks to that passion that we continue to cross milestones even in difficult times. Yet, as we have
By Elena Coll Small farmers are at the center of what we do. Since day 1, Sistema.bio has established a collaboration scheme with our users that allows us to learn from them, how they work and what they need to get the most out of their biodigesters and their farms. The arrival of COVID-19 has reminded us of the importance
Sistema.bio started off with the whole world in mind. While we installed the first biodigesters in Mexico, we were already dreaming of our future and thinking of ways to escalate our impact around the globe. And day by day that dream becomes more of a reality. Now we have offices in Mexico, Kenya, India and Colombia, and our biogas systems
