Featured story
Today, someone will eat because of the unseen work we do here.
Before the market opens and before a plate reaches the table, there is work no one applauds. This is a story about that work—and why it matters.
Read the story →Stories from Excell Africa Farms
Stories of food, farming, enterprise and everyday life—told from our corner of Wasimi.
The view from here
Bush Bar Chronicles is the editorial home of Excell Africa Farms—a record of what we grow, what we learn and the people with whom we share the journey.
Here, the ordinary becomes significant: an early harvest, a meal beneath the trees, a new idea tested in the greenhouse, or a hard lesson that makes tomorrow stronger.
Featured story
Before the market opens and before a plate reaches the table, there is work no one applauds. This is a story about that work—and why it matters.
Read the story →Explore the chronicles
Harvests, experiments and the honest work of growing food.
Explore →02Recipes, ingredients and gatherings shaped by the land.
Explore →03Workers, visitors and neighbours who give this place its life.
Explore →04Lessons from building an African farm that can endure.
Explore →“What must exist twenty years from now because we lived?
— Our organising question
From the journal
Farm Journal
The unseen routines, decisions and small acts of faith behind every harvest.
From the Kitchen
Food with a story: grown nearby, cooked slowly and shared generously.
Field Notes
How dehydration turns a difficult market day into a more resilient farm business.
Letters from the farm
Occasional stories, field notes and good things from Excell Africa Farms—delivered with no noise.