Juncao fodder grass
Our flagship. It grows up to twenty feet, regrows after every cut, and carries none of the disease that wrecked napier across Kenya.
Moran Farms
Spearheading farming! A working farm at the foot of Kilimanjaro, run as a social enterprise of Digital Moran CBO.
Our sister enterprise
A Working Farm, Not a Classroom.
Young people at Moran Farms learn agriculture the only way it sticks: by preparing the land, planting the crop, cutting the fodder and selling the harvest. The lesson ends with an invoice, not a certificate.
Around Kajiado South there are graduates holding agriculture certificates who still cannot tell you how deep to plant a cutting or what a tonne of feed is worth. Others went to the city chasing a job that never came and came home with nothing. They are sitting on the one asset most people spend a lifetime trying to buy. They have land. Nobody has shown them, on real soil, how to turn it into an income.
That is the gap the farm exists to close. We put the panga, the drip line and the invoice book into young hands.
The farm
What Grows at the Foot of the Mountain
Six crops, planted to work together. The food crops feed the team and the market, the legumes feed the soil, and the fodder grasses carry the farm commercially.
Maize
Grown for the store and for the silage pit, cut at the right milk line so the feed holds through the dry months.
Beans
They feed the household and they feed the soil, fixing their own nitrogen so the block carries a stronger crop next season.
Boma Rhodes
Grown for hay and cut at early flowering, so it bales clean and sweet before the protein drops away.
Sukuma wiki
Rows of kale under drip, cut and cut again. Fast to market, and it teaches spacing and watering better than any lesson.
Cabbages
A patient crop that rewards discipline. Get the nursery, spacing and water right and the heads come in heavy and even.
Our flagship
Juncao Fodder Nodes, Delivered Countrywide
Juncao reaches up to twenty feet, is planted once and cut for years, and does not carry the diseases that have crippled napier. Every sale funds the next cohort of young farmers.
- KES 20 a cutting
- KES 17 each from 1,000 up
- 2,200 cuttings
- plants one acre
- 14 to 18% protein
- cut for years from one planting
- Delivered countrywide
- cut the morning it travels
The backbone
The Women of Moran Farms Earn a Real Wage
In this part of Kajiado, women hold the household together: the school fees, the food, the medicine. They also carry an enormous share of the farm work, and too often they are paid last and paid least.
We refuse to run a farm that way. Same work, same rate, agreed upfront and paid on the day. It is not a favour. It is the most reliable investment we make, because money that reaches a mother reaches a whole household.
ETA Awards 2026
Winners, Agriculture and Food Safety
The category is not a prize for the best idea. It goes to people producing food and feed, safely, at a scale that can be checked. We put forward a working farm, and young people who can run it.
Buy Fodder. Fund a Young Farmer.
Moran Farms trades its way forward. Every order of Juncao nodes, silage or hay pays a young person on the farm and keeps the training running. Browse the full farm, or partner with us to grow it.