Delicious produce, fresh from the lodge garden, includes courgettes
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR
We have spent the past 12 years building and creating an eco-tourism lodge and safari experience called El Karama Lodge in Northern Kenya’s Laikipia region. Our primary focus is family travel, sustainable tourism and positive impact safaris. Through this work I have met many encouraging guests, both from our country and from abroad, who have connected with the natural world and how we live in harmony with it here. Through these relationships, and those we have nurtured within our team for many years, I could see there was an opportunity to write about our story, sharing our recipes and tips for green living with those who might be inspired by it! We live and work completely off-grid in the heart of the Laikipia ecosystem, using 100 per cent solar power and renewable energy for all we do, including electricity, hot water and powering Kenya’s first chemical-free swimming pool. We operate a water-harvesting system and recycle all our waste, including green waste which is used in organic growing and feeding our chickens.