Bringing together daring minds to fill souls with sensational zero-waste food, conscious eating, awe and joy!
What we Value
Discombobulation
Play & Experimentation
Circularity & Reciprocity
Interconnection
Beyond Waste
scrap isn’t only about food scraps; it’s about connection.
Do you giveascrap about our collective soils, the land?
Do you giveascrap about consciously slowing down and deepening attention - together?
Do you giveascrap about community and beauty?
Waste falls away when we remember we belong to each other and to the living world.
Our beautiful shared community meals become a practice of belonging, of deeper listening, of attuning to the spacious silence that exists between.
We cook whole-istically, share one long table, practice gratitude in gentle silence, and listen for what wants to be said.
Influenced by Ayurveda, deep ecology and spiritual traditions, experiences are designed to ground, balance and delight.
Come curious and open, leave nourished and spacious.
Who are We?
giveascrap was founded by Tash in collaboration with Dennis Ang'ani in Nairobi in 2019 with the vision of building a community-led movement around healthy, conscious, regenerative eating and ways of relating with one another.
We found that too often conversations around sustainability are heavy, preaching and condemning. We deeply feel that this is not the most effective way to inspire behaviour change and build actionable awareness.
That’s why, instead, we choose to energise people to eat differently by curating meaningful food experiences that are engaging, joyful and utterly out of the ordinary!
Our Ethos
We salvage what we can from markets, roadside sellers, restaurants and neighbours.
We are attracted to the wonky, the unwanted, the bruised, the peculiar. What others see as waste, we see as a lack of imagination…
Did you know crackers can be made from avocado stones?! Or ‘burgers’ from banana bud and peel?!
We don’t say no to meat, but we choose our source carefully and utilise all parts - skin, bones, tail, tongue, hump - if you are going to eat it, then please, munch it all!
Photos gratefully credited to: Ed Ram, Joseph Baraza, Tony Tei, Tash Straker
We recognise how essential food is to all of us and believe there is enormous power in a shared community meal to nourish us as well as empower us to think differently about how and what we eat. At our eclectic pop-ups, guests indulge in thought-provoking courses that are based on the ethos of no waste, provenance, nutrition and collective regeneration!
To date we’ve partnered with talented photographers, renowned musicians and engaged spaces including Ed Ram, Joseph Baraza, Mak Adem, Queen Demba, Provisions, Dagoz Soul Kitchen, Geco Cafe, Unseen Nairobi, Tin Roof Cafe, Our WonderHouse and many more. With these creative partners we’ve held talks, storytelling, creative workshops, film screenings and discussions.
All with the common themes of firstly, reconnecting people with world, self, other, with food as the portal for doing so and secondly, leveraging creativity, joy, awe and wonder to turn the tide on the multitude of unsustainable environmental trends that are rooted in how we grow, process, move, eat and relate with food.
do YOU give a scrap?!
If you are interested in collaborating on a revitalising food experience, training your kitchen in regenerative cooking practices and mindsets or simply connecting - please do get in touch! And, follow us on social!