If you have been reading this blog for some time, you know that I love farming. This morning before I sat down to write this post, I delivered 40kgs of onions to a client. Onions grown and harvested from my Meru farm, thanks to the help and labour of my parents. This is an ongoing story of my farming adventures which have often been tragically…
Read MoreWhen I set out to farm full time (sort of), I wanted to be a real farmer, one who gets her hands dirty and doesn’t need to jog or any exercise because she works at the farm all day long (farm workers are extremely toned!). See I am a perfectionist doer. I like to get things done, and I feel especially good when I am…
Read MoreThe other day I decided to visit my neighbor’s farm after I got bored of chasing birds at my farm. This happens quite often, we visit each other at least every two days to encourage each other and trade “war stories”. I found that her French beans had just germinated, she had workers top dressing them, which is agricultural-lingua for applying fertilizer after the crop…
Read MoreAs I’ve written before, I have had a couple of tries at farming, and I am at it once more. Each time I return to farming with a new strategy on how to succeed at it, strategies that are borrowed from the business world where I usually am at when I am not at the farm. This time round, my big 3 word strategy when I…
Read MoreI have started a farming column on this blog, because in addition to being a Rookie Manager, I am also a Rookie Farmer. Let us share the lessons and our thoughts as we make Kenya food secure. Armed with the lessons learned from my previous attempts at farming, a spreadsheet of financial projections and many screenshots of Farming Kenya discussions, I decided to start farming…
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