OlKalou My Home Turf
My home is OlKalou, now the Headquaters of Nyandarua County. I am a second generation Nyandaruan, my parents having purchased their piece of land in the mid 1960s.…
Delivering the Milk
Around 6 am two of my brothers embarked on the trip to the collection center, a chore that they did on a rotational basis so that everybody had…
The Buffaloes are Coming
The Collection Center is also where my brothers first heard the stories of buffaloes from the Aberdares leaving their natural habitat at night and joining herds of cows…
Rural Roads
There were lots of commodities that required transportation in Nyandarua all year round. The rural roads have always been a nightmare to navigate and sadly they have remained…
Combine Harvester – Kigethi
These were the biggest farm machinery we had ever seen. They came in two colors. The most common was the John Deere in its signature green color and…
Wasted Produce
After phasing out cash crops from our massive farm, we concentrated on subsistence farming, growing only food crops for our family consumption. And consuming we did. Nothing from…
Farm Hands
Owing to the size of majority of farms, most families had hired farm hands. The Settlement Scheme was fairly new, so there were not many people from the…
Veterans of OlKalou
There were some veterans of OlKalou town that everybody seemed to know or recognized. Most were the business people who provided goods and services to the people of…