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A working farm, first
Adventure Farm is an operational farm in Karen that happens to welcome visitors — not an attraction with animals bolted on.
The 3Rs, in practice
Recycling, reusing and reducing get printed on a lot of things. On a farm they are just the operating model, because everything that leaves one part of the system has to be useful somewhere else or it becomes a cost.
Kitchen scraps and shamba offcuts feed the pigs and the rabbits. Animal bedding and manure go into compost. Compost goes back onto the beds that supply the kitchen. Pond water, rich from the fish, waters the vegetables. Nothing here is a demonstration set up for visitors — it is how the farm stays viable.
That loop is also the most useful thing we can show a child. It is much easier to understand where food comes from when you have carried a bucket of it around the circle yourself.
Organic feed
The pigs, cows, chickens, rabbits, sheep and geese are raised on feed we grow and mix here. It costs more and it takes more work. It is also the reason the milk makes gelato worth queuing for, and why the pork tastes of something.
The permanent staff
Five of them. They have not asked for a raise. Children can pet, feed and photograph all of them.
Lets you hold him. Eats the offcuts from the shamba.
Her milk becomes the gelato you’ll be asked for twice.
Tilapia and catfish. The feeding is the loudest part of the tour.
Lays what the kitchen fries. Collect the eggs yourself.
Opinionated. Keep a respectful distance and she’ll warm up.
The people
Names, roles and short bios to be supplied by the farm. Photographs should be shot on the same day, in the same light, against the same background.
Kaituyu
Grows the food for the restaurant and trains smallholder farmers in the surrounding area.
Chef Andrew
Builds the menu around what the shamba produces, and runs the children’s pizza sessions.
Name
Trains the guides and writes the school sessions.
Where we are honest with you
We have had days that did not go well — party placements mixed up, service slower than it should be on a full Saturday, holiday packages that promised more than the day delivered. Those are fair criticisms and we have read every one of them.
What we have changed: every quote now lists inclusions and exclusions in writing, party staffing ratios are fixed and stated, and holiday activity times are published a week ahead rather than confirmed on the phone.
If something goes wrong on the day
Ask for the duty manager before you leave. We would much rather fix it while you are still here than read about it a week later.