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Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 8: Cold Chain, Avocados, Electric Pressure cooker

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

In this special report we trace the cold chain, the meat you produce from the slaughter house to the point of sale (Supermarket), so you can see what goes on.

Also we visit Laurence and Margaret mwema in Kiambu county, we learn about harvesting avocados and also help with a smoky kitchen by introducing the Electric pressure cooker.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn10 - Ep 13: Top-Dressing, Certified Seeds, Dairy Management and EPC

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are in Ndeiya, Limuru. We are revisiting a farmer from last year and we want to see if experts advise did help him?

We are revisiting Moses and his wife Susan. On this farm we are not only bringing experts to help our farmer, we are also asking our farmer for help as well.

Moses has been growing Maize since 1994 and even runs a local training course for the local farmers.

We are going to advise from Moses on Top-dressing and how to Top-dress your maize for better yields and we also learn the importance and benefits of buying certified seeds.

We also learn about dairy cow management and benefit and importance of using Electric Pressure cooker.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn10 - Ep 14: Orange Fleshed sweet potato, Electric Pressure cooker

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are going to see how you can make most out of your farm products and boost your immune system on Learning on saving in your kitchen.

This episode we dig into the most traditional of African culture - FOOD, what we eat, where we get and how we cook it.

We remind ourselves about Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato, on how to plant, harvest and how to use it in our everyday food.

We also learn about the modern stove that is Electric Pressure cooker and how it helps you to save money, time and solve / avoid the smoke issue.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 18: Cow Management, Avocado, Electric Pressure Cooker

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are visiting Hellen and Daniel in Ruiru, farmers we have shaped up before but now wants some help to improve them even further.

First we learn about cow management, choosing the right Artificial Insemination for your Dairy cow and how to deworm your cow.

The Importance of pruning an avocado tree to yield a bumper harvest.

Also we learn about the Electric Pressure Cooker, a new way to cook and also save time, money and health as the same time.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 18: Cow Management, Avocado, Electric Pressure Cooker

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are visiting Hellen and Daniel in Ruiru, farmers we have shaped up before but now wants some help to improve them even further.

First we learn about cow management, choosing the right Artificial Insemination for your Dairy cow and how to deworm your cow.

The Importance of pruning an avocado tree to yield a bumper harvest.

Also we learn about the Electric Pressure Cooker, a new way to cook and also save time, money and health as the same time.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 19: Meat Processing, Avocado, Conservation Agriculture & EPC

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we have a something special for you:

First

We get to learn how meat is processed (go through all the different stages) before it is sold in a supermarket counter.

Second

We visit Mburu Njoroge & his wife Magdalene, in slopes of lashed Thika Hills. Although Peter his son is the one who does most of the work in the shamba.

We help Peter with his Avocado trees and learn the importance and how to plant disease free avocados by buying certified tree seedlings.

We also learn how to prepare land for planting cereals like maize through conservation agriculture.

Also how to cook cheaper, cleaner and quicker using an electric pressure cooker.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 20: harvest & Post-Harvest losses, Maize, M-kopa & EPC

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

We are in kibwezi visiting Anna and Jons Ngei farm.

We learn how to avoid food losses at the harvest and post-Harvest stage and key technologies in handling maize.

Benefits of joining a fully digitalised revolution of farming by getting a smart phone to help you in farming

Introduce you to digital cooking using Electric Pressure Cooker.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 22: Conservation Agriculture, M-Kopa, Post-Harvest, EPC

This week we are in Kibwezi, visiting famers John and Stella together with their daughter Carol, Who is starting to take over the farm from their father.

We learn about conservation agriculture on how to plough with a reaper and how to keep cool with a solar powered fridge from M-kopa.

Also we learn how to reduce post-harvest losses and how to cook using an Electric pressure cooker.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 24: Post-Harvest losses, Beef Cattle production, EPC

This week we are in Bisil, Kajiado county. We meet farmer Peris and her husband.

We learn about post-Harvest losses of fruits and vegetables and how we can store them for long.

We also get to learn about the Beef cattle production and how to cook faster, cheaper and clean meals using the Electric Pressure Cooker.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 25: Harvest&Post-Harvest losses, Dairycow management, EPC - Recap

Welcome to a special edition of Shamba shape up, where we are going to visit some of the shamba we have shaped up over the last few months & remind ourselves some of the things we learned, especially during this time we are getting ready to harvest.

Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 4: Soil Testing, PATG water tank, Pest&diseases, EPC & Nutrition

Welcome To Shamba Shape Up.

This week we’re in Kikuyu ,and we’re taking a trip down memory lane

We’re re-visiting a farm we first shaped up over 10 years ago!

That’s right, at the start of our very first series of Shamba Shape Up

And we can’t wait to see how it’s been doing.

➢We find out why it’s important to do a soil test

➢ How to get a water tank from M-KOPA to help with irrigation

➢ How to combat pest and diseases in your crops

➢ Find out about Electric Pressure Cookers

➢ What kind of food should babies eat for a nutritious diet?

Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 9: Forages, Crop Insurance, Dairy Hygiene and EPC

Welcome To shamba shape up

This week we’re in Isongo, Kakamega, visiting musician and farmer Disterio Nabwayo & Family, Kakamega.

This week we learn about:

1. Growing Forages on Slopes

2. Insurance claims or Myths

3. Cooking with Electric Pressure Cooker

4. Dairy Hygiene

Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 10:Avocado, Soil test, Cow fertility &Cow in calf steam up & EPC

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up

This week we’re in Tharaka Nithi County and we’re visiting farmers Murethi and Catherine Njagi.

This week we are learning about:

1. Avocado management

2. How to help cows conceive

3. How to steam up cows in calf

4. Electric pressure cooker

Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 19:Calf management,Forage ,Soil test, vegetables push-pull, EPC

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up

This week we are in Bungoma County, visiting farmer Zaina Eunice Atieno, mother of 5 children

This week we are learning about:

1) Calf management

2) Planning for improved forages

3) Soil testing

4) How to use push-pull method to control pests around your vegetables

5) How to best finance your electric pressure cooker

Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 23: Beef Cattle management, Nutrition & Electric pressure cooker

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up

This weekend we have got a special treat for you

We’re in Oloosirkon in Rongai and we’re meeting with Stephen Ole Suntai, our farmer/expert who is a vet working with CKL Africa

We are learning about:

1) Managing beef cattle

2) Good nutrition for your family

3) Chicken nutrition

4) Cooking with Electric pressure cooker

Shamba Shape Up Season 13 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 13 - Ep 4: EPC, Minimum Tillage, Dairy Breeding & Fall Army Worm

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up. This week we’re in Limuru! Back visiting George Kairu who’s shamba we shaped up a year ago. He has really improved his dairy heard from our last visit and has boosted his milk production from 5 Liters to 100 Litres a day. Let’s see how we can help him on this episode with: 1. How to breed you dairy cows. 2. How to till your land using minimum tillage. 3. How to control fall army worm. 4. Cooking with the electric pressure cook as a young bachelor.