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Gladma Farms.
Every morning is a reminder that we are blessed.
Dairy, goat, pig and poultry farming in Nyandarua, Nyeri and Machakos Counties. 🐄🐐🐖🐤🥚

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Done making our first structure in our new farm. Our journey begins here 📌
#farmlife #farm #fyp #dairy #goat taken in Nyandarua County by @paulmbure

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My animals at the hay market 😂
#farm #farmlife taken in Nyandarua County by @paulmbure

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14 days ago

The emptiness on day 1 🤲🏾
I see growth ahead 🥂 #farmlife #farm taken in Joska by @paulmbure

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a month ago

Our grandparents never bought seeds. They kept them. And that made all the difference.

A community-owned indigenous seed bank is not just a building with seeds in jars. It is freedom you can hold in your hand. Here is why it matters:

1. Because community-owned means no one can take it away.

If it is owned by a company, they can raise the price. If it is owned by an NGO, the project can end. If it is owned by one person, it dies with them.

When it is community-owned, the rules are ours. We decide who can access. We decide what we save. The seeds stay in the village, multiplied by the village, for the village. It is wealth that cannot be privatized.

2. Because indigenous means it was made to survive here.

Commercial maize needs fertilizer, pesticide, and perfect rain. Our indigenous sorghum, finger millet, bambara nut, cowpea, spider plant, amaranth - they were bred by our grandmothers over 500 seasons to survive THIS soil, THIS drought, THIS pest. They are nutritious by default, not by fortification. In a changing climate, that memory is our best technology.

3. Because it breaks the cycle of dependence.

Right now we buy seed every season, then we must buy the chemicals to keep that seed alive. Harvest comes, we sell cheap to repay debts. It is a loop.

With a community seed bank we loan seed, not buy it. You take one kilo of njahi at planting, you return two after harvest. The bank grows. Your neighbor gets to plant even if she had no money. No one starts the season with zero.

4. Because it keeps knowledge alive.

Inside every indigenous seed is a recipe, a ritual, a farming method. How to intercrop millet with cowpeas. How to store with ash to stop weevils. How to cook it for a new mother. When elders deposit seed in the bank, they deposit that knowledge too. Our youth don't just become farmers, they become librarians of our culture.

They told us local seeds are poor, low-yield, backward. But what is more backward than a system where farmers cannot afford to plant food?

What is more advanced than a community that feeds itself from its own heritage?

This is not nostalgia. It is insurance. It is sovereignty. It is the future.
#farm #farmlife taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @paulmbure

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2 months ago

Ol Kalou... because I do ❤ Nyandarua taken in Ol-KALOU TOWN by @paulmbure

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3 months ago

Here's a very practical design by @mabandayamifugo
Good for Kienyeji chicken and also a great housing for caged layers 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @paulmbure

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3 months ago

Prepared land and planted maize and now waiting for the annual harvest 🌾
#farm #fyp taken in Nyandarua County by @paulmbure

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3 months ago

God is good 🤲🏾
Developing this piece because farmers are my inspiration 🚜🌾🌾🐄🐂🐓🦃🌳🌳.
This is my DAY 1 #farm #fyp taken in Nyandarua county by @paulmbure

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3 months ago