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…
Tractor with Trailer Transportation
Punjabi’s from the Punjab region of India, where our Karathing’a Kenyans are descended from, are famous for their farming just like Nyandarua people. Majority of them own huge…
House Plaster: Guthinga Nyumba
Compare the before and after The house shown in the first picture above is still a common feature in most homesteads in OlKalou and Nyandarua at large. Some…
Cone Hats
I am often fascinated by ingenuity, which is often born of people responding to their need. The Asian people, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese work long hours in their…
In Conclusion
I started out telling you about the OlKalou I grew up in back in the 1970s and 80s before most of you were born. If you have been…
The Pioneer Parents’ Children
Then there is us. Your parents, Uncles and Aunties. We are the second generation that now owns and runs OlKalou and Nyandarua after inheriting the land from our…
Pioneer Parents’ GrandChildren
Then there is You. You have the blood of warriors running in your veins. Your grandparents saw the dismal chances of survival in Gikuyu and they decided to…