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In 20 commercial tomato farms that Ivisited in Kimana within a radius of 500 metres, all were using HHPs.
That article should be coming up soon on
@routetofood
.
But the reality of the matter is every evening we indulge in toxic carcinogenic dinners.
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Yellow corn. I just used Rabbit urine, neam and pepper 🌶️🌶️🌶️ to manage fall army worm 🐛
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Okay for every 15 liters hand pump. Use 1 liter of Rabbit urine, 2 handful of dry crashed chilli, about 3 handful of neem tree leaves crushed.
You can also add 3 spoons of tobacco.
All mixed in 14 liters of water and left overnight.
Sprayed twice in intervals of 10 days.
Yellow corn. I just used Rabbit urine, neam and pepper 🌶️🌶️🌶️ to manage fall army worm 🐛
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Niliwaambia watu wa livestock mpande this grass.
Since December 27/2023 I have baled it twice with over 700 bales now.
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The day you see cows. Please do remember that i have grown and stored fodder for one and a half years to date.
Don't rush to put the horse before the cart.
Success to be reaped is planned, painful and requires persistent.
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Staying organic in the farm.
Spraying tomatoes with my rabbit urine mix.
Foliar & pest repellent and possible blight preventive.
We wait full cycle.
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There was just a single tree when i started greening this space 4 years ago
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Officially honey flow season at Elerai village starting last night🍯🍯.
We will harvest 🍯🍯 continuously for the next one month.
We will also make wax later and do scented candles, soaps etc .
We will not harvest again until 2025 as it dries past September.
🐝🐝🌻🤗
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Here we go.Week 5 top of the table🐐
Animal feeds growing. (Maize silage, sugar graze & nutrifeed)🌾🌽🐄🐐🐑
On with the journey to be
#livestockfeed
secure year round for 10 dairy cows and 100 sheep lot.
We plant brachiaria splits today. Lucerne germinating pretty well.🌿
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Now finished fencing for what will be a place for people to come learn how to grow organic foods and adapt to increasing drought as a result of
#climatechange
.
It can be done. Keep it here
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Further demonstration that my rabbit solution works, here is a part that I left without spraying the rabbit urine for demonstration and comparison purposes.
Same crop, almost completely destroyed where urine solution was not applied.
🐇🌶️🌿🚬
Yellow corn. I just used Rabbit urine, neam and pepper 🌶️🌶️🌶️ to manage fall army worm 🐛
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Many have always wondered to what extended
#food
🍲🍲 can be grown organically at a commercial level.
Here in Kajiado piloting a success story of zero artificial fertilizers & pesticides with 2,100 🍎🍎
#trees
now in flower & fruit, 200 🥑🥑,
#vegetables
🥦🥕 and 🌽🌽.
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This is the tragedy in Kajiado County especially Kajiado South.
Clear, use excessive fertilizer to maximize productivity, get the soil to acidic to grow anything, 4 years clear another 60 acres, do the same.
The unfortunate part is most of this lands left barren are leased
"We are at a time where farmers are producing by moving to a new piece of land. Once a portion is degraded, it is abandoned and farmers move to a new area. For how long can we do this?"
@warui_harun
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Livestock economy based communities can beat the perennial drought cycle with proper forage growing planning.
By December, we should have enough feeds for 10 dairy cows and 100 goats to last one year .
Farm size, six acres.
Keep it here as the journey unroll.
🐐🐄🌽🌿🌾
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Also happens to be the honey season at the farm.🐝🐝🍯🍯🌼
Started harvesting awaiting processing.👩🌾👨🌾
We could get to 1.5tonnes 🍯🍯 this season.
Place your orders
@Beelove_apiary
@1muthokinzioka
@kavsmaina
@jrmitoko
@junganga
@cherries_nplums
@DrNyax
@gatwiri_c
@Ole_Tumanka
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How often do you check your hives?
We have begun moving across the county working with farmers on some best
#beekeeping
practices. We hope to increase the number of occupied hives during the coming swarm season.
Are you in
#Kajiado
and wish to have your farm visited? Reach out.
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Data collection of
#beekeepers
in Kajiado Central and mapping of apiary sites.
This exercise will provide accurate information on the status of
#beekeeping
in the county and provide a way forward.
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Sealed this end with mabati because soon we will be extending the structure to accommodate 30 milking cows. Otherwise final touches
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Very few thinga beat this morning view from Elerai village.
And I got 42 acres in the wild overlooking all this.
@MaureenInKwenia
, kwenia is giving me inspirations on things I could do there.
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Rams, ewes, goats and bees. This is my village life.
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Week 6🌾🌿🐄🐑🌦️
Days now to harvest nutrifeed and sugar graze when the plants have all nutrients stored. 🌾🌿🐄🐑.
Remember the two are multi cuts.
How we wish we could mechanize the harvesting and ensiling. 🙏
#YouthInAgriculture
#agriculture
#FoodSecurity
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With drought having driven our herds communities almost nuts, growing feeds will be the way to go to combat the effects of climate change.
I am preparing our family six acre farm as a model for this.
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Today is
#WorldBeeDay
.
Every
#bee
species needs to be protected.
We need to rethink how we grow food.
We need to go back to natural
#beekeeping
.
More wild spaces for
#bees
need to be set aside.
Buy honey from a
#beekeeper
.
Let's have a busy
#WorldBeeDay
protecting
#bees
.
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How many of you would buy into biweekly
#beekeeping
🐝🐝🍯 live here on X?
With an international audience and contributors on select topics.
🐝🐝🍯🍯🌼🌻🌾
@VeryMaureen
@kavsmaina
@jrmitoko
@gatwiri_c
@kt4ut
@LuciaNixon
@gmilysm
@cookswelljikos
@CLCCA_KE
@apimondia
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To all those who supported this
#bee
🐝🐝 project with the bush hives, you have no idea how this ladies are great full.
They are finalising to buy a plot of land where they will put a 40 feet container to be their honey 🍯 🍯 processing & sale point.
You made this one possible.
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A little Sunday walk in the fodder🌾🌾🐄🐄 and orchards🍎🍎🍎 block enjoying the story of generation wealth creation roll out nicely.
We will look for that generation 👨👩👧👦 baadae.
@Manuel_Ntoyai
usilete pressure. 🤣
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Apiary done and a new
#beekeeper
born today in Thigio Kiambu Kenya.
Walking with new
#beekeepers
is critical to achieving success in
#beekeeping
.
That's our committment.
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Something is cooking.
Research, feeds, bees, climate change, people, building back better.
Center for Livestock Climate Change Adaptation.
@Beelove_apiary
@yiankainc
@Koyiano
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Polepole ya kobe humfikisha mbali.
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Progress on the animal feeds project at the farm. (yellow maize Panner, nutrifieed forage millet, Avanta sugar graze)
We continue to get ready before bringing in livestock around Dec.
Planning on feeds, better utilization of land only sure bet to livestock rearing communities.
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Safari ya kesho hupangwa leo.
On with growing animal feeds (sugar graze millet here).
#Climatechange
has forced us to rethink how we plan for livestock feeding, manage land and maximize space.
By December, should have enough feeds for 10 cattle lasting them 1 year six months.
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Who said that organically grown apples 🍎🍎🍎 can't grow in arid
#Kenya
.
A year later, 2,100 apple 🍎🍎🍎 trees loading at Elerai Village.
They will not believe it. Safe food is possible at commercial level.
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I love to capture 🐝🐝🐝 swarms on 🌲🌳🌴 before moving them into apiaries.
It's natural for our bees 🍯🍯🐝🐝 to swarm on trees🌳🌳. I think our forefathers understand as much.
Always worked for me. 🌻🌼🌸🐝
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We about to start harvesting our feeds. S
Storage is the next critical stage.
Work kicked off to build our concrete bunker silo today capable of holding 100 tons of feeds at one go.
🌾🌿🐄🐑🐐
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Soon, we again breed some new queens 👑 🐝🐝 from the most productive less aggressive genetics of the colonies🐝🐝🐝 we got.🍯🍯🍯🍯
#beekeeping
#Art
#Science
#FarmLife
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Thick trunks hollows act as natural
#bee
nests and are an important part of maintaining
#wild
bees species.
Conserving this natural bee habitats is important to understanding
#bee
behavior and adopting nature based perspectives
#Beekeeping
.
#thicktrunktuesday
#COP27
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Weeding for the nutrifeed millet livestock feeds kicked off today.
Comparing the two sections. To be done by Wednesday.
Happy plants, more yields.
🌾🌿🐃🐄🐐🐑
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I need one solo 10 day holiday in Turkie, the work we done this year deserve a rest & Strategizing for take off.
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Organic farming.
Rabbit urine mix for pest control always worked for me.
From caterpillars, aphids, fall army warm etc.
The product are there to see.
#organicFarming
#OrganicFarms
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It's my farm manager (on the left) big day.
Siku ya ng'ombe kumla mwanawe.
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#Bee
engaged with the youth.
#WorldBeeDay
2024 is around.
Concerted efforts needed to protect all
#bees
& other
#pollinators
from the pesticide menace in EA.
A region constantly facing food insecurity, conserving them becomes critical towards achieving
#agroecology
balance.
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Achieving
#food
sufficiency for both
#livestock
&
#humans
is on here at Elerai village.
📌Elerai village
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Feel most welcome
@gatwiri_c
and Karibuni tena.
Spent today learning how to make silage. Thank you
@DukeOfKimshire
for hosting us and
@jrmitoko
and team and county govt for facilitating. Learnt a lot!
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One week progress.
The millet sprouted after one week.
We have millet in one acre.
More coming up.
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Not long, this group of farmers were buying vegetables infested with pesticides for their household use.
3 months letter after engagement with
@routetofood
they have established organic kitchen garden & are now lobbying
@KajiadoGov
for the bann of HHPs.
That's transformation
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Elerai Lolkera Agroecology Group Kimana, will be petitioning the
@kajiadoassembly
this week on the following legislative issues.
1. Weights standardisation for tomatoes
2. Use & trade of pesticides classified as HHPs
& to the
@KajiadoGov
, kimana market infrastructure dvp.
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My guys in loitoktok will enter a mini van public vehicle full with strangers and say 'Habari Zenu.'
The level of socialism borrowed from Tz is on another level.
Back in the days you would enter someone shamba, harvest a few tomatoes and go cook without question.
@gatwiri_c
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Giving away Lucerne coz drying will prove difficult. My neighbors cows will have a party
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Two hives 🐝🐝
Two flavours🍯🍯
Choose yours🌷
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Suits for who!
This week in the farms
Nairobi see you in two weeks.
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#Beekeeping
is intriguing
#Beekeeping
is cool
#Beekeeping
is safe
#Beekeeping
is therapy
Join us on the 3rd of June.
At Isinya.
For the best of a beekeeping session.
With
@Beelove_apiary
We promise to walk the journey with you after.
@cherries_nplums
@DrNyax
@kavsmaina
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'The solutions to the threats in
#beekeeping
are not to be found in advance solutions of the future, but a walk into the past.'
I write in my next upcoming publication.
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The log hive; a symbol of Africa's
#beekeeping
is as good as any other hive. It offers great lessons on natural
#beekeeping
too.
With few improvements, the hive can achieve both increased production and colony sustainability.
We are keen not to lose indegenous knowledge.
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Manure getting into the farm now. Tomorrow we plant feeds (sugar graze) and yellow maize
Next week Lucerne and brachiaria grass.
Next week but one fruits
#foodsecurity
#organicfarmingtips
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That's how you do an apple 🍎🍎 orchard over 2,000 and counting.
Elerai village
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Cows are here,
Almost silage time,
Apples are blooming,
This is 2024
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New baby Lucerne. Looking to have 5 acres
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Elerai village is sweet with honey this season. 🍯🍯🐝🐝🐝🌼🎊
First bucket of first honey🍯🍯🐝🐝 sieving process is now settling.
Hope we can hit 100🍯🍯 buckets this season.
Approximately 20 kgs per bucket.
Saving the scum per apiary site location for future analysis.
Officially honey flow season at Elerai village starting last night🍯🍯.
We will harvest 🍯🍯 continuously for the next one month.
We will also make wax later and do scented candles, soaps etc .
We will not harvest again until 2025 as it dries past September.
🐝🐝🌻🤗
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Today we young again.🙏
With thanks to Him 🎂 🥂 🎊🍾
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Shifting to growing animal feeds is good for the
#environment
in ASAL.
Moving away from overgrazing in environments that are fragile and focusing on crop zoned area for animal feeds.
This allows the environment to self regenerate and reduces forage competition with other life.
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How we managed during the drought season was by thinking first about the 🐝🐝🐝🐝 before the keeper.
Stories I am documenting in the book to be,
'The African Beekeeper; Buzzing through Changing Times. '
@LuciaNixon
@BeekeepersHour
@apimondia
@CorkHives
@BlackDogHoney
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Beekeeping does not aid the indolent!
Regular hive inspection is critical to becoming a successful
#beekeeper
and achieving healthy colonies.
Get in touch for more on beekeeping.
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Where did our indigenous seeds go !?
To whose benefits.
To whose eternal loss.
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In this 2,200 apple trees bloom the sun goes down at Elerai village.
📍Elerai village
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Planted trees yesterday as part of the nation wide program to plant about 15 billion trees over the next ten years
Still got about 300 seedlings to give away for anyway who wants to plant. As long as you can transport them
@WilliamsRuto
@MamaRachelRuto
@rigathi
@HonTuya
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Growing cattle feeds is a lot more than feeding cattle.
It means
#children
can concentrate with school rather than move from one place to another in search of pasture.
It means stronger families.
It means better utilization of land for
#biodiversity
including
#wildlife
.
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By faith & by works.
Blessed assurance
📌 Elerai village
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Week 7.
It's nutrifeed chop chop time for silage making.
Checks on on Lucerne, Corn, Cowpeas & brachiaria
@DrNyax
@Ole_Tumanka
@jrmitoko
@kavsmaina
@FAOKenya
@SNV_Kenya
@kalromkulima
@perfometer
@yiankainc
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Adding a few stems of super Napier (Packchong)
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@411kamaa
Unfortunately don't use pesticides. I use a combination of 🌶️, neam tree leaves, rabbit urine and tobacco
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@gatwiri_c
@malageorge
That, I am writing about. Why we need a coordinated effort to control some elements in East Africa.
Otherwise what's the point of banning a substance in Loitoktok if I can find one across the border in Tarakea Tz.
@Consum
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Planning for success in livestock rearing with feeds.
🐄Nutrifeed section.
Week 3 since sowing.
🌾🌿🌦️🐃🐄🐐🐑
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In the sheep world, Lucerne hour is the happy hour.
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Lucerne ft brachiaria grass, the cow mix album.
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@4low_Ke
Fanya hivi. Tip it (like kata huko juu) it will branch. Am always doing that. Lots of branches now. Should have started chini. You still could cut it slightly above the graft point.
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I visited this farm before I started growing my feeds late last year & early Jan.
Very inspiring, supportive & welcoming.
Also will be getting some breeds later next year from this farm.
Indeed, this is the only truth, the only way, the only future to livestock feed security
Breakfast in Sukos.
Jackson made it easy for his son and friends to venture into agriculture. Jesse manages the farm and has integrated ICT and other youth in their operations.
@gatwiri_c
@yiankainc
@KajiadoBees
is this one formular to get youth in agriculture?
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Submitting on farmers concerns during
@KajiadoGov
ADP 2025/2026 preparation.
Issues:
1. Kimana market development.
2. Tomato process & value addition.
3. Beekeeping value chain development.
Also to present petition to the
@kajiadoassembly
on this issues & the use of HHPs.
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Also done an acre of Brachiaria (The Wonder Grass).🌿🌾🌿🌾
Very high in protein. You will be mooooooowing🐄🥛🐄 🐃🐃🐮 to the bank
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Recent visit by our
#beekeepers
to Kitui county courtesy of
@WWF_Kenya
to learn on ways Kajido County can adopt
#beekeeping
for both
#economicempowerment
,
#ClimateAdaptation
and
#conservation
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Intentional
#farming
🚜🐄🌾
Bees 🐝🐝 + Apples🍎🍎 + Rabbits🐰🐰 + Goat & cows + herbs 🌿🌿
= safe
#sustainable
farming🚜🐄🌾
#agroecology
#biodiversity
#agribusiness
#FoodSystems
.
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Beautiful morning from Loitoktok grazing fields (also known as Loitoktok airstrip)
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