Shamba Shape Up : Series 4 - Shamba Shape Up Series 4 - Episode 9: Beans, OFSP, Chickens and Water Harvest
We are in Bungoma with Jackson and Zipporah looking at planting healthy beans, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, keeping poultry for the youth, d.light solar lamps and rainwater harvesting.
Shamba Shape Up : Series 4 - Shamba Shape Up Series 4 - Episode 11: East Coast Fever, Planting Trees and Sorghum
We are in Machakos with Cecilia and Philip who are in need of some help with their cows, who need an ECF vaccine, about how to make a farming plan, growing sorghum, planting trees & rain harvesting.
Shamba Shape Up : Series 4 - Shamba Shape Up Series 4 - Episode 15: Chicken, Solar Light, Certified Seeds and Water harvest
We visit Emmanuel in Kisarian who needs a shape up of his chickens (hatching, breeding and feeding), solar light, water harvesting and planting certified seeds.
Shamba Shape Up : Series 4 - Shamba Shape Up Series 4 - Episode 22: Dairy cow management, Fertiliser & Rainwater harvest
We visit our Facebook competition winner to learn more about keeping healthy cows (vaccines, feed, supplements, pregnancy), how to use fertilisers and the importance of keeping rainwater.
Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 15: Climate Change, Soil test, Tomato, Rain harvesting
Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.
In this episode we want to give farmers the help and knowledge they need to adapt their farming methods, increase their income and make their farms more productive even while the climate changes.
We look at various farms we have visited and learn various tricks to make your farm productive.
We learn how to collect soil sample for soil testing, also we get advice on how to manage tomato crops and how to harvest rain.
How to adapt to climate change by using solar equipment, Also we look at nutrition as you
Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 2: Soil Test, Rain harvesting, Avocado, Brachiaria & Insurance
Welcome to Shamba Shape up series 11.
This week we are in Meru county, visiting farmers Alfred and Margaret Muthomi and their son John Paul.
They are building up and wants to give back back both as the same time.
They ran a farm and a children's home and they want to increase their yields for the next season with the children's needs in mind.
We are doing two good deeds at the price of one.
In this farm we learn:
➢The importance of soil-testing.
➢The importance of harvesting rain water and how to set-up the rain water harvesting system.
➢How a certified nursery provides seedlings (Avocado) free from diseases and how it is done.
↝↝Also the importance of buying a certified seeds and good farming practices of planting it.
➢How to increase your milk yield by practising good management of your brachiaria grass and how to preserve the grass by making hay bales for use in dry season.
➢How to protect your crops and livestock from disaster in a cheaper way.