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Woman Farms 30 Varieties Of Crops Organically by Jitefarms: 9:31pm On Oct 24, 2020 |
She began the natural challenge in 2018 after quitting part-time lecturing at Moi University. But before that, she had been farming conventionally on the side since 2014. She uses natural manure from sheep, chickens and cows, which she sources from the household farm, and also intercrops the flowers with others like marigold that attract bees and curb pests. During the dry months, like from January to March, she uses overhead sprinkler irrigation, sourcing water from an adjacent swamp. Traditional plants such as kunde and sagaa are tolerant towards drought and pests and diseases but do now not thrive well beneath wet and chilly conditions Nigeria, located off Eldoret-Nakuru Road, is a sprawling township in Uasin Gishu County. The location hosts expansive farms blanketed in maize and wheat. It is here that Julie Barmasai farms on about two acres of her family’s 200 acres, now not the cereals, however horticultural crops. Seeds of Gold team finds her supervising her workers as they harvest the vegetables and herbs. “Get me 3kg of night time shade, 2kg of broccoli and a kilo of curly kale,” Julie instructs one of her workers. On the farm christened Garden Picks Produce, she grows over 30 assorted greens and herbs that encompass cucumber, sugarloaf cabbage, night time coloration (managu), amaranth (terere), broccoli, lettuce, thyme and basil. See the rest @ https://jitefarms.com
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