Milling the Wheat – Guthiya Ngano
With a bumper harvest like we just delivered to the Cereal Board, it was time for us to taste the fruits of our labor. We had a few…
Granary – Ikumbi
This was the other very important building in a Nyandarua homestead, and every family had one. Be it made of mud walls, timber or iron sheets depending on…
Chicken Manure
“It is the best manure” my mother declared emphatically: and her word was law. She said you cannot get better manure for your crops than chicken manure (thumu…
OlKalou Meals
Back home in OlKalou, our meals were a mass production for a minimum of ten people making the taste sometimes disappear in the quantity. Our meals were mainly…
Walkways
Every homestead has a number of buildings in it. The standard ones are Main House, Kitchen, Granary, Thingira and Latrine. There is always a narrow footpath that connects…