Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 22:Soil test, Panicum grass, Compost, minimum tillage, Insurance
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up
This week we are in Kakamega, visiting farmer James and Nancy Titiya
We are learning about:
1) Soil testing
2) Planting panicum grass in a nursery
3) Building a compost structure for your farm
4) Minimum tillage for maize
5) Insuring your crop
Shamba Shape Up Season 13 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 13 - Ep 1: Soil test, Minimum Tillage, Herbicide, Climate Literacy & Electric Pressure Cooker
Welcome to the 13th Year of Shamba Shape Up!
On our first episode, we are in the foothills of the Aberdare’s in, Miharati, Nyandarua county.
We’re visiting the young farmer John Gatimu.
John has taken over running his father’s farm and is working hard to turn around the farms fortunes, by trying various modern methods of farming.
He has cows, sheep and grows maize for consumption and fodder. He also grows millet for fodder and is currently trying out peas to sell.
Together with join and our amazing experts, we learn all about:
Why and how to do a soil test.
1. How to clear your field of weeds before planting maize.
2. Learning how to understand climate
3. Minimum tillage with a tractor
And
Using solar to cook with the electric pressure cooker
Shamba Shape Up Season 13 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 13 - Ep 2:Soil test,Minimum Tillage,Calf Care,Climate Literacy and Air Fryer
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up.
This week we are in Githafai in Nyandarua county. We are visiting the young married couple Owen and Margaret who have been farming for a very long time. Margaret has been farming for 15 years and started to look at farming as a business five years ago and Owen grew up on his family farm. They are always looking at opportunities to increase their knowledge. Together they grow potato and maize and have ten dairy cows.
During our visit to them we learn about:
1. How rip your land for planting potatoes using minimum tillage.
2. How make sense of changing climate
3. Calf Care.
4. Cooking with an air fryer.
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.