Milking Chores Starting at 4 a.m.
The lush green pastures also meant high milk yields. The cows were well fed, producing plenty of milk. My farm usually produced two 50 liter milk cans from…
Milk: Collection Center
Nyandarua milk had one buyer only. KCC. The Kenya Co-operative Creameries Ltd. The closest KCC plant was in Nyahururu, some 35 kilometers away. Our Cooperative Society had a…
We Missed The Milk Truck
In the unfortunate event where the truck arrived at our collection center before my brothers did, it meant they had to travel three kilometers to “Gwa Gataliani” collection…
KCC Returns Perfectly Good Milk
Like the excess produce with no market for it, the Nyahururu KCC was the only buyer of milk from most of Nyandarua. The factory got overwhelmed with the…
Let The Dogs Have Some Milk
The avalanche of returned milk did not just affect the humans. Dogs were not spared either. Africans do not have a very good track record of treating their…
Mukurino – Businessman
I have mentioned Mukurino many times in the previous posts because he was a well known service provider to the farming communities of OlKalou and beyond. His name…
Thanks for Sharing Your Wealth
I have no history of where Mukurino came from or when, but what I know is that, he was a very valuable member of OlKalou, providing what was…
Inferiority Complex: OlKalou
My definition of this is simple: Feeling less than …… We all have a bit of it, or there are some situations we step into and immediately it…
Cheese and Butter Making
A lot of people in OlKalou may not have heard of cheese, although it is a milk product, which they produce in large quantities. The reason they don’t…