Fresh cutThymus vulgaris
Thyme
Our signature crop — intensely aromatic English & lemon thyme, cut for export-grade stems.
View specs Grown in Kenya · Exported worldwide
From Kenyan soil to the world's kitchens.
Thyme Machine grows premium culinary herbs and horticultural products across Kenya's sun-rich highlands — cut at dawn, cold-chained within hours, and on a flight to your market with full traceability.
- Export markets
- 15+
- Export markets
- Harvest to air freight
- 24h
- Harvest to air
- Partner farms
- 120+
- Partner farms
Cut at dawn, shipped the same day
Nairobi highlands · cold chain 2°C
Trusted by importers & distributors in
European Union United Kingdom United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Qatar North America South Africa East Africa
2019
Founded in Kenya
Who we are
A Kenyan herb house with global reach.
Born in Nairobi and rooted in Kenya's highland farms, Thyme Machine exists to do one thing well: put the world's most aromatic culinary herbs on plates thousands of kilometres away — as fresh as the hour they were cut.
From our own demonstration farms to a network of 120+ trained growers, we control every step: seed, soil, harvest, hydrocooling, packing and phytosanitary clearance. The result is export-grade consistency, season after season.
- Direct-from-farm sourcing with full batch traceability
- KEPHIS & GlobalG.A.P.-aligned quality assurance
- Air freight from Nairobi, sea freight from Mombasa
The collection
Aromatic herbs, harvested to order.
Fresh-cut culinary herbs, dried blends and specialty horticultural produce — grown for aroma, packed for shelf life.
Fresh cut
Fresh cutSalvia rosmarinus
Rosemary
Bushy, pine-fresh sprigs cut at dawn from highland fields, air-freighted at 2°C.
View specs
Fresh cutOcimum basilicum
Basil
Sweet Genovese basil with tender, dark-green leaves — a chefs' favourite for Mediterranean menus.
View specs
Fresh cutMentha spicata
Mint
Spearmint and peppermint, grown for colour, fragrance and long-shelf-life stems.
View specs
Dried & blendsLow-temp dried
Dried Herbs & Blends
Sun-dried and low-temperature dehydrated thyme, oregano, mint and bespoke chef blends.
View specs
HorticultureCapsicum annuum
Chilies
Bird's eye, cayenne and sweet pepper varieties with consistent heat profiles for food service.
View specs Farm to flight
Four steps from field to fork.
Cultivate
Seed-to-harvest management on highland farms at 1,800m altitude, using regenerative soil practices.
Harvest
Hand-cut at dawn when oils and aroma peak, graded on the spot, hydro-cooled within two hours.
Cold chain
Unbroken 2°C cool chain from packhouse to pallet — tracked, logged and verified at every handover.
Export
KEPHIS phytosanitary clearance, then air freight from Jomo Kenyatta or sea freight from Mombasa.
Sustainability
Export quality that doesn't cost the earth.
Kenya's highlands give us ideal growing conditions — we give back through regenerative farming, solar-powered cold storage and fair, long-term partnerships with the farmers who grow with us.
Our sustainability pledge- 92%
- of irrigation water recycled on our farms
- 60%
- of packhouse energy from rooftop solar
- 350+
- smallholder farmers trained & contracted
- 12 t
- of single-use plastic avoided each year
What buyers say
Trusted by importers on three continents.
"Thyme Machine's rosemary arrived greener than local suppliers' — and the cold-chain documentation is impeccable. Our chefs now plan menus around their supply."
Dana Kiptoo
Head of Procurement, Dubai Fresh Co.
"We switched our entire fresh herb range to Thyme Machine. Six months on: zero quality complaints, and the basil shelf life beat our previous supplier by four days."
Marcus Brandt
Category Manager, FreshLine Retail Group, Germany
"Traceability is non-negotiable for us. Every Thyme Machine pallet arrives with batch codes, residue reports and phytosanitary docs — customs has never held a single load."
Sara Al-Rashid
Import Director, Gulf Harvest Trading, UAE
Ready to source Kenya's finest herbs?
Tell us your market, volumes and packaging needs. Our export team responds with a tailored quote within one business day.