This is so encouraging...a land that looked so barren being transformed to such greenery,its amazing,eish so many people can replicate this,we can curb desertification and increase food production..i love trees so much..thanks Lemayian
Thank you! Yes, very possible, all techniques I used are simple and affordable. Only rainwater used. If you have a water source this can be done in a shorter time.
These are the muzungus we Africans welcome. The ones who not only want to make Africa home, but also like it's people. May Africa and Kenya continue to nourish you and inspire you. I can tell you love Africa, Kenya and Africa love you back. God bless you our African muzungu.. .
@@CharlesNyingi-jn1og thank you so much! Yes, the people arround do get interested in this more and more! The transformation challanges them and the techniuqes used are affordable.
This is amazing... the transformation is real🤗 I work in semi - Arid area in West Pokot, we should do an exchange visit program, share knowledge and seeds... 🤗 Kudos for the adaptation of Kenyan English accent😍👏👏🌻🎊🎉
From Philippines. I like your approach. So centered and focussed on what realy matters. I like your approach with the animals. A little point for you: It's not at first the organic matter on top of the soil that builds dark soil. It's the living roots in the soil. The roots release root exedues, which are feeding the Microbes in the soil and the dead microbes make the soil black. logic the dead microbes contain lots of carbon right? And they contain Protein, hence Nitrogen. Togethjer with minerals they mine from the soil. So the plant is fed by the excretions of microbes and decaying microbes. Your Swales help to moisten soil to a much deeper level and keep it moist over the year and this is where microbes thrive and multiply. So the combination of the two is what optimizes black soil growth. Of cource organic matter also contributes to plant growth and adds waterholding capacity. Additional a shade tolerant groundcover can trapp falling leaves very efficiently, creating a thick layer of humus and soft, very aerated soil beneath. My wife introduced such a groundcover on our farm and I helped it spreading. What I described happened under a legume tree which is shedding its leaves once a year. The covercrop always came through. A 30 to 50 cm thick permanently moist mat out of fallen leaves entangled with the covercrop developed with the soft soil below. The covercrop is edible. It's leaves taste sour maybe from oxalic acide which would make it not a first choice food. As of now I didn't care to find out the scientific name of the plant. From the growth habit and its fruitstand I would put it into the family of blueberries. It has 4 to 5 cm big pink flowers. I had the chance to see how soil was built on the farm of my wife during the last 16 years. Most interesting are the places with Accacia mangium and those with waterchestnut trees (also called freshwater Mangrove). Under the Acacia Mangium trees the soil was 20 to 30 cm thick and dark brown. below that another layer of almost equal size, where you can see strands of dark soil penetrating into the loam soil. On one tree I saw fat root nodules. Other trees didn't have any root nodules, maybe because of fire, used before we took over the farm. Since I know this now, it would be a good idea to scatter soil with nodules under the accacia Mangium trees and other leguminous trees without root nodules in the soil. This I didn't because I had to leave the farm which was contaminated with the spray from the nearby pineapple plantation, which caused symptoms of poisoning in my body. Within that soil were also big white grey lose nodules. These could be colonies of microbes which were under all the mangium trees independend from root nodules. The smell of the soil was like the night soil of my grandparents. Under the Waterchestnut trees the soil is greybrown to a depth of about half meter. The fleshy fat roots seem to bring lots of activity into the soil. One root is at least as thick as the trunk of the tree and there are 3 to 5 of them per tree. Ginger which I planted into this soil, casted over a pile of organic matter, started flowering 2 to 3 Months after planting. Also a banana made fresh fast growing shoots in this soil.
@@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher thank you and thank you for your advise! I have tried matunda damu/tree tomato many times. It give great harvest (50-200)/tree unfortuanally they did not survive the 3 year drought. Now is when I am replanting in my most fertile and moist spots.
Dope! Watching from Nairobi. Nice to see a white man learning land management from indigenous people, instead of the usual white "conservation" & "conservancy" we-know-better-than-locals types. It's unfortunate that our taxes are stolen - which should be spent on Agricultural & Livestock Extension Officers in ASAL areas . In my experience Extension Officers are passionate about sharing such knowledge, which would see your neighbours land flourish too.
Şuanda kısıtlı internetim var bu yüzden kendi dilimde yazıyorum umarım çeviri yapabilirsin 😊. Turkish language, please tranlate youre language. Aslında kuraklığa Dayanıklı birçok tür ve çeşit var bunları bir şekilde elde edebilirseniz çeşit artar. Kesinlikle öncelik tagasaste ( tree Lucerne) ( chamaecytisus proliferus var palmensis. Nitrojen fiksasyonuda kesinlikle zehirli olmayan yapraklar yılın her zamanı hayvanlar yiyebilir. Koyun, keçi, inek, yada diğer hayvanlar. Belki Akdeniz bitkileri edinebilirsiniz. Örneğin zeytin olea europea, salvia officinalis, belki ceratoina siliqua, romarinus officinalis, Phoenix dactylifera or Phoenix canariencis ( Kanarya adalarına özgü ve diğeri ise Arap yarım adası) belki daha yerli üst katman ağaçları edinebilirsiniz. Ekolojik sistemi bozabilir ancak belki okaliptus türleri yönetilir ise zararlı olmayabilir. Aslında afrikaya ait birçok tür var özellikle de Albizia türleri dikensiz olanlar yada Dikenli ancak çok fazla fayda sağlayan Türler . Sanırım Albizia lebbeck dikensiz diye hatırlıyorum ve iyi bir Azot ve destek ağacı. Afrikaya özgü birçok tür arasında Moringa türü de var umarım araştırma imkanın olur özellikle kuru bölgelere bakmanı tavsiye ederim mesela Somali Kenya Kamerun mali Zambiya veya Zimbabve Mozambik Çad yerli türleri listesi edinir isen bitkileri bulman kolaylaşır.
Thank you, yes there are many indigenous plants. Some are hard to get as Kenya historically offers exotic trees in their nurseries. More and more natives are starting to be available witch is great. This place will be more and more diverse overtime.
@MaxLemayian I'm looking forward to your videos I highly recommend the Tagasaste tree Thornless, rapid growth and non-poisonous leaves I heard that there is cultivation in South Africa and Ethiopia Your knowledge and experience are valuable to me, I hope you will have a wonderful ecosystem, animals and plants I congratulate all of you who have been able to achieve success in difficult climatic conditions such as Kenya 🤗 However, I don't have any more information
The difference between Sweden and Kenya is that while Kenya still focuses on the basic necessities of life (food, housing, health), Sweden on the other hand has overcomed this level of needs. Therefore Kenyan's are more concerned in improving their household income levels.The idea of environmental conservation is excellent. Thus h/holds with no reliable sources of income find themselves between the devil and deep blue sea focusing more on basic necessities of life. To them food and health is first priority. Let us focus more on improving household incomes.
@@jepilentoijoni2537 thank you for your feedback! This is very true, it is much easier to deal with the environment issues if you are not conserned with what to eat from day to day. Sweden did however start dealing with environmental issues long before it was "rich." (As an example in 1800 it started planting more trees than what it were cutting down). In fact it is my opinion that because Sweden took care of it's environment is part of it's success. You have to work with nature to get more from it. Gras, water, trees, tourism, foodpruduction, medicine can all increase as environment improves.
Have tried to teach my brothers this method but they don’t seem to care. The frustration I have is beyond understanding. Wish I was back to my country.
@@soinda87 my first year before I had my own farm I used to train farmers this methods. We build swales and other things on their farms. When I came back to check the development some had tilled the area for maize and the water catchment structures were gone. Only one of many could understand and impliment permaculture from being tought only the theory. Now many arround me do this without me in need of teaching or pushing for it. The results from my farm challange them to also do it. It seems like people have a hard time to belive untill they see it with their own eyes. Get your own farm, show whats possible they will follow. :-)
@soinda87 I have done most of this development out of the country. It is harder but possible. If you are going to Kenya with some kind of frequency it helps alot. Takes some time to find the right people to work with but it is very possible.
When I first heard of the Olea africana a few years ago, I thought it had something similar to an olive on it, but it seems like it doesn't produce any food for humans directly, is that correct? Do you have any acacia senegal for producing arabic gum or frankencense or myrrh?
@@TheVigilantStewards the olea africana produces too small olives. Grafting with cultiveted veriaties should be possible and is someting I am interested to try in the future.
@@TheVigilantStewards the trees you are asking for are not found were we are. Our rainfall is small but temperature is fare. Those speacies thrives in the most hottest sides of samburu.
I tried sesbania sesban, leucaena, gliricidia, mexican sunflower, and castor in Nanyuki for biomass in syntropic system, and only the mexican sunflower and leucaena performed very well. It was on the Nyeri side where there is horrendously degraded compacted black cotton, seems like elephant grass and eucalyptus and acacia are the only things over there that like to grow.... am happy to be on the meru side with red soil now. Do you consume the flesh of your animals from slaughter? We are plant based over here, I always wondered what people eat out there in the desert, have to be very creative to breakaway from the pastoralist culture I suppose. I'm sure it would make things a lot easier if you do since you can convert grasses into food and bugs into eggs etc
@@TheVigilantStewards great to get your comment and hear your experiance. Yes, dryland offer less opputunity for a vegetarian diet. The most potential is grass production which can be conveted into meat and milk. Beans also do well and stores well. Maize do well when the soil is improved with manue. Many grow meat and trade with maize and beans. Typical foods are milk with ugali, sikuma ugali, managu ugali, cabbage ugali and beans ugali.
@@TheVigilantStewards when I came to Kenya I was a vegetarian. After staying with the maasai comunities my prefered foods are milk and meat from the shamba... (but not the paket/supermarket one, this I still avoid...)
This is excellent! I have a farm close to your farm and guess what, I am focused on Dorper sheep farming. I have constructed some terraces and this has transformed the land.
@@patriot_2022 great Idea. For now I dont have the tools to cut the grass and keep all the small trees inside. I might do this on others "shambas" in the future. Nkosira Organic Farm have been doing this for +5 years and it has good money as grass is highly priced here...
@@MaxLemayian We do this on our shamba. I live in Kajiado...much drier than there, but we have a lot of grass stored for the next dry season. It's nice to plan isn't it.. Your place is beautiful. Do you have springs? Or boreholes when the rain stops?
@patriot_2022 this is great! Yes, kajiado is dry, some areas have amazing soils. I lived in Isinya 2011, then been visiring bisil, namanga, mailua and mosiro. Our shamba is still small. We do not have an other watersource than the rain. We are collecting water from the roofs to tanks total of almost 20.000l which we use for the household and animals. During Jan-march we buy water for the household from waterbosters. We collect water from flood runnof and can store 10.000 in a small dam which we use for sikuma mainly. We started developing only 1.000m2 (1/4acre) now it's 12.000 (3acres) we will continue to grow polepole as we learn.
@patriot_2022 January to March we downsize from 20animals down to 5. Keeping goats only. The grass and trees are still green for months into the dryspell while the neigbouring farms are dry after 2 weeks...
Wow!! This is great! Thanks for finding this channel. Maralal has changed alot since the few years I been here... we now have tarmac from Rumuruti. We got electricity this year. Water is expected in a few to come aswell...
@TPking-x8n I have recently sold all the sheep to prepare for the dryspell. The male goats I sell when +6month old. The female I keep to increase my stock...
Ruto the president of Kenya who should know better is busy deforesting our country selling trees/ timber to Chinese. Continent of Africa we are poor from our greedy leaders who ask Western countries for funding for global warming and they are the cause and in this case I refer to Ruto. I feel so sorry for us. We have a beautiful country but Kenya has became Ruto's private bedroom he can do what he wants. Let's learn from Lemayia.
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This is so encouraging...a land that looked so barren being transformed to such greenery,its amazing,eish so many people can replicate this,we can curb desertification and increase food production..i love trees so much..thanks Lemayian
Thank you! Yes, very possible, all techniques I used are simple and affordable. Only rainwater used. If you have a water source this can be done in a shorter time.
God bless you
These are the muzungus we Africans welcome. The ones who not only want to make Africa home, but also like it's people. May Africa and Kenya continue to nourish you and inspire you. I can tell you love Africa, Kenya and Africa love you back. God bless you our African muzungu..
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@@kasikwagoma6740 wow! Thank you ❤
Good for you man peace and love🇰🇪🇰🇪
@@alvinjeffery9 🙏
You speak like Maasai. Guess you've been around quite long. Wonderful video.
@@henryodero9092 🤣🤣🤣
I have been arround for some time, mostly in maasailand.. Kajiado, Narok, Baringo, Laikipia, Samburu.
It's really great what you're doing with the environment. It's more sustainable. I really hope our people could copy your ways.
Very informative video indeed. Thank you for sharing.
@@mangoyacho thank you! What do you like the most?
good job lemaiyan - environment is indeed very important
Greetings from Austria ,i was Born in Maralal,Home sweet Home
Thank you very much. I am watching you from the states. You have taught me a lot.😊
@@carmellinagituku4726 thank you! What do you like the most?
This is quite impressive. Keep it up.
Your videos really good plants are healthy and have a more fruit or eating leaves . Animals looks so happy. Good job 😊
@@sutlucorek2434 thank you!
Beautifully beautiful 🎉🎉❤❤
Sopaa Lemayian, viewing from Scotland. Indeed doing a very inspiring venture. Hope this repricated in Samburu!
@@CharlesNyingi-jn1og thank you so much! Yes, the people arround do get interested in this more and more! The transformation challanges them and the techniuqes used are affordable.
@ I used to criss cross maralal many decades ago and you are doing great and being instrumental Samburu and kenya by extension
This is amazing... the transformation is real🤗 I work in semi - Arid area in West Pokot, we should do an exchange visit program, share knowledge and seeds... 🤗 Kudos for the adaptation of Kenyan English accent😍👏👏🌻🎊🎉
@@jjajaregen much welcome to visit!
I have never met a Swede I didn't like in Kenya, well done! Greetings from Meru/Laikipia county junction
@@TheVigilantStewards asante sana!!
I like, keep going
@@bmshekinah5213 thank you! What do you like the most?
Respect 🙌
Merci beaucoup!
From Philippines. I like your approach. So centered and focussed on what realy matters. I like your approach with the animals. A little point for you: It's not at first the organic matter on top of the soil that builds dark soil. It's the living roots in the soil. The roots release root exedues, which are feeding the Microbes in the soil and the dead microbes make the soil black. logic the dead microbes contain lots of carbon right? And they contain Protein, hence Nitrogen. Togethjer with minerals they mine from the soil. So the plant is fed by the excretions of microbes and decaying microbes. Your Swales help to moisten soil to a much deeper level and keep it moist over the year and this is where microbes thrive and multiply. So the combination of the two is what optimizes black soil growth. Of cource organic matter also contributes to plant growth and adds waterholding capacity. Additional a shade tolerant groundcover can trapp falling leaves very efficiently, creating a thick layer of humus and soft, very aerated soil beneath. My wife introduced such a groundcover on our farm and I helped it spreading. What I described happened under a legume tree which is shedding its leaves once a year. The covercrop always came through. A 30 to 50 cm thick permanently moist mat out of fallen leaves entangled with the covercrop developed with the soft soil below. The covercrop is edible. It's leaves taste sour maybe from oxalic acide which would make it not a first choice food. As of now I didn't care to find out the scientific name of the plant. From the growth habit and its fruitstand I would put it into the family of blueberries. It has 4 to 5 cm big pink flowers.
I had the chance to see how soil was built on the farm of my wife during the last 16 years. Most interesting are the places with Accacia mangium and those with waterchestnut trees (also called freshwater Mangrove). Under the Acacia Mangium trees the soil was 20 to 30 cm thick and dark brown. below that another layer of almost equal size, where you can see strands of dark soil penetrating into the loam soil. On one tree I saw fat root nodules. Other trees didn't have any root nodules, maybe because of fire, used before we took over the farm. Since I know this now, it would be a good idea to scatter soil with nodules under the accacia Mangium trees and other leguminous trees without root nodules in the soil. This I didn't because I had to leave the farm which was contaminated with the spray from the nearby pineapple plantation, which caused symptoms of poisoning in my body. Within that soil were also big white grey lose nodules. These could be colonies of microbes which were under all the mangium trees independend from root nodules. The smell of the soil was like the night soil of my grandparents. Under the Waterchestnut trees the soil is greybrown to a depth of about half meter. The fleshy fat roots seem to bring lots of activity into the soil. One root is at least as thick as the trunk of the tree and there are 3 to 5 of them per tree. Ginger which I planted into this soil, casted over a pile of organic matter, started flowering 2 to 3 Months after planting. Also a banana made fresh fast growing shoots in this soil.
Thank you for sharing your experiance!
Missed you bro ling time
Thanks for staying with me all these years :-)
Its good when you see a visitor seeing good in our motherland when most of us can't see anything good
@@robertmuiruri550 🙏
New subscriber. Viewing from 🇬🇧
Thank you!
Sheeesh!!! Good job!! Looking for land that i can transform like this😍😍😍
@TPking-x8n the more dry the more available it is... 😀
Come for 30acres in malindi
Good job like your videos 👍
@@johnonyango6069 thank you! What do you like the most?
@MaxLemayian the Swale that transformed the baren land into paradise ❤️
First, that Samburu agent -100%. Well done, loving it. Second, consider trying tree tomato and a few Macadamia trees
@@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher thank you and thank you for your advise! I have tried matunda damu/tree tomato many times. It give great harvest (50-200)/tree unfortuanally they did not survive the 3 year drought. Now is when I am replanting in my most fertile and moist spots.
@@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher would love to try macadamia. Not seen it in my local nursery. Might go to Laikipia to try to find it.
@@MaxLemayianI planted macadamia. It’s was so challenging since I had no shade. But they survived
Nice job Max Lemayian it’s amazing how you have transformed that place and it’s still transforming.
@@Carol_Grace asante sana!
Karibu sana Max.
Great work Lemayian!!
Very impressive! also impressive is the Kenyan accent😂. Have you realized you've picked it up?
@@kengachanja5476 asante!interesting! Is it the words I chose or how I pronouns them?
Yes his accent is totally local. I like the permaculture farming your doing, that will help conserve your natural surrounding.
😂😂 💯 I was like, how does his English even have a Maasai accent ??
@@MaxLemayianboth wording and accent,
Dope! Watching from Nairobi. Nice to see a white man learning land management from indigenous people, instead of the usual white "conservation" & "conservancy" we-know-better-than-locals types.
It's unfortunate that our taxes are stolen - which should be spent on Agricultural & Livestock Extension Officers in ASAL areas . In my experience Extension Officers are passionate about sharing such knowledge, which would see your neighbours land flourish too.
This is inspiring, good job Lemayan
Let me know how I can reach out to you if you don't mind , I would like your advice on similar project
Thanks
👏👏👏👏
@@WanguPat 🙏
Your mannerisms are now like a typical Masai 😅. Welcome to Kenya
Asante sana!
Aki nilinotice
Good day everyone! Were are you viewing from?
Australia 🇦🇺
@Altheodi that is great, thank you!
NSW, Australia. In an arid part of the country. Absolutely love what you have achieved. Very inspiring.
@@MsPeacelove01 Thank you! Your encouragement matters a lot! What interests you the most?
We are currently watching @work😊in Solna Sweden
In Africa, another of the Earth God appears. From Africa, another of the Earth God speaks.
@@paulirving2986 thanks for your comment. But I don't understad the meaning...
@MaxLemayian Even more reason why you should NOT be on my continent.
Şuanda kısıtlı internetim var bu yüzden kendi dilimde yazıyorum umarım çeviri yapabilirsin 😊. Turkish language, please tranlate youre language. Aslında kuraklığa Dayanıklı birçok tür ve çeşit var bunları bir şekilde elde edebilirseniz çeşit artar. Kesinlikle öncelik tagasaste ( tree Lucerne) ( chamaecytisus proliferus var palmensis. Nitrojen fiksasyonuda kesinlikle zehirli olmayan yapraklar yılın her zamanı hayvanlar yiyebilir. Koyun, keçi, inek, yada diğer hayvanlar. Belki Akdeniz bitkileri edinebilirsiniz. Örneğin zeytin olea europea, salvia officinalis, belki ceratoina siliqua, romarinus officinalis, Phoenix dactylifera or Phoenix canariencis ( Kanarya adalarına özgü ve diğeri ise Arap yarım adası) belki daha yerli üst katman ağaçları edinebilirsiniz. Ekolojik sistemi bozabilir ancak belki okaliptus türleri yönetilir ise zararlı olmayabilir. Aslında afrikaya ait birçok tür var özellikle de Albizia türleri dikensiz olanlar yada Dikenli ancak çok fazla fayda sağlayan Türler . Sanırım Albizia lebbeck dikensiz diye hatırlıyorum ve iyi bir Azot ve destek ağacı. Afrikaya özgü birçok tür arasında Moringa türü de var umarım araştırma imkanın olur özellikle kuru bölgelere bakmanı tavsiye ederim mesela Somali Kenya Kamerun mali Zambiya veya Zimbabve Mozambik Çad yerli türleri listesi edinir isen bitkileri bulman kolaylaşır.
Thank you, yes there are many indigenous plants. Some are hard to get as Kenya historically offers exotic trees in their nurseries. More and more natives are starting to be available witch is great. This place will be more and more diverse overtime.
@MaxLemayian I'm looking forward to your videos
I highly recommend the Tagasaste tree
Thornless, rapid growth and non-poisonous leaves
I heard that there is cultivation in South Africa and Ethiopia Your knowledge and experience are valuable to me, I hope you will have a wonderful ecosystem, animals and plants
I congratulate all of you who have been able to achieve success in difficult climatic conditions such as Kenya
🤗
However, I don't have any more information
Sorry, the word order is wrong
After Ethiopia and South Africa comes the sentence that begins with the word (However)
@sutlucorek2434 thanks for your advicese, will look it up!
The difference between Sweden and Kenya is that while Kenya still focuses on the basic necessities of life (food, housing, health), Sweden on the other hand has overcomed this level of needs. Therefore Kenyan's are more concerned in improving their household income levels.The idea of environmental conservation is excellent. Thus h/holds with no reliable sources of income find themselves between the devil and deep blue sea focusing more on basic necessities of life. To them food and health is first priority. Let us focus more on improving household incomes.
@@jepilentoijoni2537 thank you for your feedback! This is very true, it is much easier to deal with the environment issues if you are not conserned with what to eat from day to day. Sweden did however start dealing with environmental issues long before it was "rich." (As an example in 1800 it started planting more trees than what it were cutting down). In fact it is my opinion that because Sweden took care of it's environment is part of it's success. You have to work with nature to get more from it. Gras, water, trees, tourism, foodpruduction, medicine can all increase as environment improves.
Have tried to teach my brothers this method but they don’t seem to care. The frustration I have is beyond understanding. Wish I was back to my country.
@@soinda87 my first year before I had my own farm I used to train farmers this methods. We build swales and other things on their farms. When I came back to check the development some had tilled the area for maize and the water catchment structures were gone. Only one of many could understand and impliment permaculture from being tought only the theory. Now many arround me do this without me in need of teaching or pushing for it. The results from my farm challange them to also do it. It seems like people have a hard time to belive untill they see it with their own eyes. Get your own farm, show whats possible they will follow. :-)
@ I’m out of the country that’s the problem.
@soinda87 I have done most of this development out of the country. It is harder but possible. If you are going to Kenya with some kind of frequency it helps alot. Takes some time to find the right people to work with but it is very possible.
@@soinda87get someone to partner, you provide land, they provide management
Try kiapple shrubs for fencing
@@johnonyango6069 iko 😉 asante sana for the tip! 😀
When I first heard of the Olea africana a few years ago, I thought it had something similar to an olive on it, but it seems like it doesn't produce any food for humans directly, is that correct? Do you have any acacia senegal for producing arabic gum or frankencense or myrrh?
@@TheVigilantStewards the olea africana produces too small olives. Grafting with cultiveted veriaties should be possible and is someting I am interested to try in the future.
@@TheVigilantStewards the trees you are asking for are not found were we are. Our rainfall is small but temperature is fare. Those speacies thrives in the most hottest sides of samburu.
Great job...just curious..How do you support this work economically
Thanks, trough work, I am blessed with a great employer.
I tried sesbania sesban, leucaena, gliricidia, mexican sunflower, and castor in Nanyuki for biomass in syntropic system, and only the mexican sunflower and leucaena performed very well. It was on the Nyeri side where there is horrendously degraded compacted black cotton, seems like elephant grass and eucalyptus and acacia are the only things over there that like to grow.... am happy to be on the meru side with red soil now. Do you consume the flesh of your animals from slaughter? We are plant based over here, I always wondered what people eat out there in the desert, have to be very creative to breakaway from the pastoralist culture I suppose. I'm sure it would make things a lot easier if you do since you can convert grasses into food and bugs into eggs etc
@@TheVigilantStewards great to get your comment and hear your experiance. Yes, dryland offer less opputunity for a vegetarian diet. The most potential is grass production which can be conveted into meat and milk. Beans also do well and stores well. Maize do well when the soil is improved with manue. Many grow meat and trade with maize and beans. Typical foods are milk with ugali, sikuma ugali, managu ugali, cabbage ugali and beans ugali.
@@TheVigilantStewards when I came to Kenya I was a vegetarian. After staying with the maasai comunities my prefered foods are milk and meat from the shamba... (but not the paket/supermarket one, this I still avoid...)
This is excellent! I have a farm close to your farm and guess what, I am focused on Dorper sheep farming. I have constructed some terraces and this has transformed the land.
@@jepilentoijoni2537 Supa! Imanya Samburu?
Bwana Lemayian, why don't you cut the grass and store when they are looking overgrown? It won't always rain and you will be able to sell them
@@patriot_2022 great Idea. For now I dont have the tools to cut the grass and keep all the small trees inside. I might do this on others "shambas" in the future. Nkosira Organic Farm have been doing this for +5 years and it has good money as grass is highly priced here...
@@MaxLemayian We do this on our shamba. I live in Kajiado...much drier than there, but we have a lot of grass stored for the next dry season.
It's nice to plan isn't it..
Your place is beautiful. Do you have springs? Or boreholes when the rain stops?
@patriot_2022 this is great! Yes, kajiado is dry, some areas have amazing soils. I lived in Isinya 2011, then been visiring bisil, namanga, mailua and mosiro.
Our shamba is still small. We do not have an other watersource than the rain. We are collecting water from the roofs to tanks total of almost 20.000l which we use for the household and animals. During Jan-march we buy water for the household from waterbosters. We collect water from flood runnof and can store 10.000 in a small dam which we use for sikuma mainly. We started developing only 1.000m2 (1/4acre) now it's 12.000 (3acres) we will continue to grow polepole as we learn.
@patriot_2022 January to March we downsize from 20animals down to 5. Keeping goats only. The grass and trees are still green for months into the dryspell while the neigbouring farms are dry after 2 weeks...
You sound like masai
@@isantosian 🤣🤣🤣
@MaxLemayian a Masai from kiserian.. am from Kajiado south. Loitokitok
@isantosian my first years I stayed in Isinya 😀
@@MaxLemayian and now?
@@isantosian now I stay in Samburu mostly.
Isinya, Namanga, Mosiro, Mara, Marigat and Maralal is the places I been mostly
I didnt know one can buy land in Maralal….I was born there and wet to DeB primary…Now in USA its been 38 years now
Wow!! This is great! Thanks for finding this channel. Maralal has changed alot since the few years I been here... we now have tarmac from Rumuruti. We got electricity this year. Water is expected in a few to come aswell...
@@anthonymwai8228 welcome back one day!
what are your contacts if one wanted to visit .....
max.lemayian@gmail.com
+254796012270
(Whatsapp)
No he has not acquired a Kenyan accent that is Swedish accent my guys. Listening more to how Swedes speak English will tell you.
Sawa
Do you sell your goats?
@TPking-x8n I have recently sold all the sheep to prepare for the dryspell. The male goats I sell when +6month old. The female I keep to increase my stock...
I thought foreigners can’t buy land in Kenya
Foreigners can buy municipal land or leasehold.
@@MaxLemayian You can also buy freehold land BUT you will have to convert it to leasehold land.
White massai😂
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Ruto the president of Kenya who should know better is busy deforesting our country selling trees/ timber to Chinese. Continent of Africa we are poor from our greedy leaders who ask Western countries for funding for global warming and they are the cause and in this case I refer to Ruto. I feel so sorry for us. We have a beautiful country but Kenya has became Ruto's private bedroom he can do what he wants. Let's learn from Lemayia.
@@catherinecarter4120 very beautiful contry! Full of resourses and opurtunities...