Tag: farming
Meeting a West Kenyan small farmer with passion – and referee by choice
It’s a warm day when I meet a farmer couple at their home. The farmer demonstrates with a lot of pride and energy his testing fields. He tries to find out out which kind of maize grows better with the continuously higher lack of water, how a mixed agriculture helps to avoid acid soil and…
Visiting a market in Bungoma county
I’m very impressed by the colorful market scenery here in Bungoma county in West Kenya: Farmers who buy and sell cattle, sometimes coming from remote places to a rural town with the hope to earn some money, sounds of all genres, thin handmade strings to take the animals along, women in colorful clothes sitting on…
