Spoilt Animals
Most of the animals that Nyandarua farmers owned were inherited from the British colonists who owned the land before them. The farmers purchased the animals through the Cooperative…
What Just Happened?
The animals enter the pen and it is finally their turn. They are still clueless about their visit to this far away “town”. The first animals are grabbed…
The Hero Sheep Shearers
The Shearers worked all day long, for a week or two until all the sheep of our Settlement Scheme had had their annual haircut. Like I mentioned earlier,…
Sheep Dip
A week after getting the haircut, the sheep were ushered out of the main gate once again, this time headed to the dip that only happened once a…
Homesteads
Majority of farmers who bought land in Nyandarua were not wealthy people. They had just come from under colonial oppression that had limited their opportunities in education and…
Main House
With those villages dotting the Nyandarua landscape, the new land owners figured they could construct their houses the cheapest way possible, giving their families inexpensive accommodation, as they…
Kitchen: Eating and Warming
To keep the Main House clean and smoke free, families built a detached kitchen not too far from the Main House. Some families constructed their kitchens in the…
Lets Wash Our Feet
Families finished their evening meal and dishes were washed. The last task of the evening was to pass around a basin (Karai) of warm water for everybody to…
Lets Go To Bed
With everybody’s feet clean and dry and the fire slowly dying down, it was time for the family to relocate to the Main House to sleep. Majority of…
Unshakable Alliance
Nobody’s toe got bitten off and nobody got pushed off the bed. We had our childhood differences like all good siblings do. We threatened each other when situations…