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Upcoming DIG Field Trip: August 2025

DIG is excited to be hosting our 2025 Field Trip to Kenya this August.

Trip Dates: In Kenya August 1st – 9th

(add 1 day on each side for international travel)

We’ll be in-country for the height of Kenya’s world famous Great Migration.

In addition to lots of wildlife viewing, you’ll have the unique opportunity to visit DIG gardens and to work hand-in-hand with several of our communities in Western Kenya. These intimate trips give our community of supporters an opportunity to go deeper with the amazing work our farmers and local teams are co-creating together. If you’ve dreamed of joining one of our trips, this might be the year to do it!

We believe access to nutritious food is a basic human right and can save lives. By collectively practicing and promoting agroecology we have an opportunity to transform, not only our food systems, but our whole world.

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DIG has partnered with over 60,000 farmers across 8 African countries. You can learn more about where we are and where we have been by exploring the map.

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DIG improves the nutrition and livelihood of uniquely marginalized communities by planting regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

STORIES FROM THE FIELD

Farmer Field School

A Better World is Rooted in Food

July 8, 2022

What if we treated food as a human right instead of a product of the market? This 2 min short shares the commitment DIG holds to practicing community centered design and implementing climate-smart agroecology to address some of the world's biggest challenges.

Farmer Field School

The McGuire Sponsorship Garden

September 27, 2021

Farmer Field School

Day 3 of Living Below the Line for DIG: Unexpected Turn of Events

April 30, 2015

So pretty much the worst thing that could have happened to me in this Live Below the Line challenge for Development in Gardening where I have to eat and drink on $1.50 a day for a week, just happened…well, maybe not the worst thing but pretty close. Last night I was all set to make my precious dinner. After getting my son to bed, my stomach rumbling, somehow having resisted the urge to pick-up any uneaten cheese off his dinner plate, I got

Farmer Field School

Day 2 of Living Below the Line for DIG: The Diversity of Food

April 29, 2015

One of the hardest things about my challenge to Live Below the Line for Development in Gardening (DIG) is trying to get creative with the materials I purchased. Brown rice, regular and sweet potatoes, a fairly uninteresting frozen vegetable mix, black beans, and some other staples don’t provide much pop when you’re eating them every day. I would have loved to have bought a little avocado, some limes, a little ginger, some mango, but I knew if I purchased any of these instead of the staples

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A Better World is Rooted in Food

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Upcoming DIG Field Trip: August 2025

Trip Dates: In Kenya August 1st – 9th

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We believe access to nutritious food is a basic human right and can save lives. By collectively practicing and promoting agroecology we have an opportunity to transform, not only our food systems, but our whole world.

Fields of Growth

Where We Work

DIG improves the nutrition and livelihood of uniquely marginalized communities by planting regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

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STORIES FROM THE FIELD

A Better World is Rooted in Food

The McGuire Sponsorship Garden

Day 3 of Living Below the Line for DIG: Unexpected Turn of Events

Day 2 of Living Below the Line for DIG: The Diversity of Food

Help Us Plant The Seed