Cash Crops: Wheat
Nyandarua was known for two cash crops. Wheat and Pyrethrum. Everywhere you looked, there were fields of wheat swaying in the wind, and beautiful white ‘flowers” waving in…
Picking Pyrethrum
Kikuyus from Nyeri called it Beniku. We called it Mahuwa, translation flowers, because that is what pyretherum is. It is a daisy like flower with white petals and…
Clarion Call For Produce
I strongly feel if somebody opened up markets for Nyandarua farmers, they could grow more crops on their fertile extensive farms and even cash crops like wheat and…
Colonial Homes
The British settlers who owned much of OlKalou had their majestic looking homes, surrounded by many other structures, it made their compounds look like shopping centers. They were…
Sharing What They Had
Talking of excessive, nobody had abundance of things, in fact, it seemed like simplicity was the common theme. I always wondered why we only had one axe for…