For families in Uganda
Uniting Ugandans through culture, nutrition and agriculture.
Check a market price, plan a meal from food that is in season, and keep the family story where an elder can still correct it.
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See a fair price before you leave the garden.
Fill the plate with food that is in season.
Keep a family story where it will not be lost.
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Open Snowvue and start an Ekika, your family circle, or enter the one your family already keeps.
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Check a market price, score a meal, or sit at the Ekyoto, the family fireplace, and ask an elder.
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Family living abroad can follow the shamba, the family garden, and pay for seed and other inputs. Cash is not sent into a chat.
These are the rules we build with. They are not only lines on this page.
Grandparents, parents, and grown children can farm, cook, and learn in the same place. Jjajja, a grandmother or grandfather, keeps what the family knows. The app should not talk over them.
You and the buyer should see the same weight and the same price. The number comes from people in the district, not from an office in town.
A staple, beans or sauce, greens, and fruit when the market has them. The score is simple. The price is this week's price.
Stories, recipes, clans, and the family tree can stay in the language of the table. English is here so more people can come in. It is not the only language of the house.
We follow Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act. We do not sell personal information. We do not build profiles of children. If you have not agreed, we should not have it.
Many families use a small Android phone and a slow network. The type can be made larger. A page you have already opened should still open when the signal drops.
If a partner pantry is short of food, and you agree, surplus can be offered to a household nearby. Your name is not passed on as a sales list.
Our story
The harvest is a family gift. The work is old. It starts in the family garden, with family and friends. It is brought home and prepared in love and patience, with the culture and the family in mind. It is carried to the market for a fair price. Let us keep it this way for future generations to remember and enjoy. Let us keep this fire alight.
Market & prices
Prices reported by people in your district, then checked. Not a rumour you picked up on the way to town.
Eat well
Score a plate in plain language, using food that is in the market this week.
Ekika · family circle
At the Ekyoto, the family fireplace, you sit with the people who remember. You can record a story in the language you speak at home.
A short list. Each one is explained on the Features page.
Monthly district games: prices, photos, questions, and a balanced plate. The prize is named before the month starts.
Photograph a plant or an animal for a first reading, then find a vet, a weather alert, or extension advice.
Watch a short lesson, or ask in a forum. Old knowledge is marked checked only after an elder has looked at it.
Partner pantries are checked before they are listed. A referral happens only if you agree.
A relative can join the family circle and pay for inputs that are delivered to the shamba. Not cash in a chat.
We will not put farmer counts on this page until we can stand behind them. A district price goes up only after people in that market have checked it.
We wrote these lines so you can hear the tone. They are not interviews. When a family agrees to be named, we will say so.
“My granddaughter showed me the prices before we walked. I still decide. The phone only stops the arguing.”
A grandmother
Example we wrote, not an interview. Masaka.
“I used to guess what beans would fetch. Now I want yesterday's price before I call a boda.”
A young farmer
Example we wrote, not an interview.
“I live abroad. I do not want to send cash into a chat. I want to pay for seed and know it reached my mother's garden.”
A daughter abroad
Example we wrote, not an interview.
Pantries, buyers, extension workers, SACCOs, organisations, and sponsors. The partner page says how to write to us.
Send a short email to the help centre. We will not put you on a mailing list unless you ask.
The button opens your email app. Nothing is saved on this website. Children are not signed up.