Very impressive entrepreneurial spirit, going boldly against cultural norms as well! Having lived and worked in Homa Bay for > 6 years I understand the risky nature of farming there.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see a young person create an idea and succeed.Martha,you're truly an inspiration and a beacon of hope for our youth. And just like your namesake in the Bible,don't be destructed or worry about small things.Instead,serve and feed the people.
Jason Theodore idk if I were completely African or black I wouldn't like being called a black girl but I'm mixed with different races like white,african,japenese and more stuff but I know u meant no offense to that
Wow....Africa, totally amazing region of the world. Creative ideas, do pay off in all areas of organic farming. All the very Best to you guys. Here's wishing you Good Health, Happiness, Love, Joy, Freedom & Peace, always...congrats.
Hello Yusuf, it's true Organic farming is slowly evolving into a niche market, with farmers around the world reaping the benefits for offering such produce into the market place. Being innovative within organic production, will be most helpful in establishing oneself within this lucrative market, for the good of everybody. Ask & you will receive, the truth. With thanks, Peace my friend.
Thanks Martha for the good work you are doing. We will share your story with young women in Elgeyo Marakwet County. May God bless you because you are an inspiration to many.
I am very inspired but her story. Right now Homestead Urban Farming is a Vision that has captivated My Heart . Feeding my family with fresh healthy food from the garden is my Passion I have a Kitchen Herb Garden and an Edible Food Landscape Garden around my house. Every year more vegetables and fruits, herbs , flowers, bushes, roots and trees are added .
Good reporting from this TV station. Many African youths need to see such report so we don't sit and wait for governments to give us jobs. The corrupt governments can't do that
Tonny True. What pisses me off about Africa is a HUGE territory of land being used just to "preserve" lions and other animals. Guess what? Lions don't bring NOTHING to our lives. They are killing machines who need plenty of land to keep alive. Imagine if all that land was used to farm, Africa would be damn rich!!!! I don't mind lions and alligators being extinct, FUCK them! They will not think twice about eating you alive.
FeelingShred We actually have plenty of arable land besides the game reserves that can be used for agriculture . The problem our school system produces young people who despise farming leaving most of the farming to old people who do subsistence farming. We need such stories so that young people can settle and farm instead of walking the streets looking for 'respectable' jobs!
Tonny Okello I agree with you. Farming is not seen as 'sexy' by the youth. Not only does tje schooling system not promote it, but our youth are also taught to look for jobs after school instead of creating their own jobs...
Tonny Go to the USA brcause they give out free checks and health care and dental care and housing and food etc.... Plus you can rob people if they have something you want because they give you free lawyers too. Then claim racism and everyone will be scared to send you to jail. Everything better in America, America. Everything better in America America....America.
Love this! Such a humble, beautiful, inspiring young lady. In the midst of planning my move back home, I would like to venture into farming in Naivasha. Kenya is incredibly rich in resources, and it's time we tapped into this as opposed to relying on scarce white collar jobs!
I am based in Lagos, Nigeria and would like to make a suggestion to the Smart Farm Crew. Please try to subtitle your programs in English Language since you have some viewers outside of kenya that do not speak swahili or any kenyan language. Thanks for the great job you are doing
Well done Martha! You got up and faced obstacles and did something wonderful with your life. You are an excellent example to teach the rest of us that it can be done
Love this women she is intelligent an beautiful an I hope the best for her an her family. Looks like she has a green thumb. I’ve been waiting so long to see Africans that there whole life of being oppressed now are rich an successful
we need this lady to come and live with us in riftvalley,our farms are fertile and i think we need to intermarry if you are still available we say welcome........a very bright young lady success is for people like her
Hi! How can i get in touch with Martha? She inspired me bit how comes this interview is short? Please give our farmers proper interviews just like the ones you give to celebrities.
Blessings from Papua New Guinea. You gave up your journalism background and you sacrificed initial 40gran. For a young lady like you to have that spirit to do that, it must be determination. Love your energy, you will go miles. And I am impressed by your foresights. Martha, you can never go wrong when you are in agriculture business. Everyone lives to eat everyday, so you WILL make money everyday. Good on you girl. .
wow.. i admire you girl. That is so good and inspiring. I love agric, grew up in a farm and did all the farm routines and its quite enjoyable. Keep it up and i wish you the best.
Brilliant young lady, the sort kenya needs to sustain its food security, who needs the Israeli? The lady has proved it can be done..sasa serikal kazi kwenyu..
I really believe that we should farm and garden here in America everywhere and trade the fruits and vegetables with one another with what we don't have and with what they have and Plant along the highways no one would ever go hungry then it should also be tax deductible when we plant fruit vegetables lentils wheat barley any kind of food source and don't forget billions and billions and billions of land of flowers for the honey bees
I live in NC before every planting season we get up with all the people in the community to see what everybody is planting.Then when harvest time comes around we all trade
+ELIAKIM Joseph Sophia, I live in Ontario Canada and enjoy gardening at my little backyard during the short summer months. I grow some of my produce in pots and some directly in the ground. I plant almost everything and grow potatoes with peelings that really turns out well. I mostly harvest abundance of tomatoes, peppers, shallots, butter nut squash, string beans in yellow, green, purple, sweet peas, spinach, Kyle, swiss chard including bell peppers, sweet banana peppers, hot peppers in different varieties including herbs. Cucumbers and a whole lot more. I give away so much to neighbors and friends at work and still able to freeze lots of tomatoes to use through the winter months till early spring. Just love to garden and wish to have a nice greenhouse I could garden through the winter months. Would be great to live at a warmer location where I could garden all year long. It is incredibly amazing what one little tiny seed to grow into. Would love to do something like what this brilliant lady is doing. My tomatoes mostly reseeds from droppings in the garden and do come back each year in late spring. I planted 6 seeds of Aspergers last summer and by fall I had over 20 Asperger plants growing together. What I didn't know was that, it really spreads and multiplies and also comes back each year as it is considered a perennial plant but could only harvest withing two years. It takes time for it to grow think Aspergers. Gardening is therapeutic and stress relieving I enjoy it with all my heart.
GO GO GO Martha, U'r my college mate though u were some years behind me @ Saint Augustine University of Tanzania( SAUT), but i can guess now u'r capable of employing me. Iam proud she has made it. I remember in those good old days we w're taught Entrepreneurship @ SAUT she
Good job Martha! Your are an inspiration and the kind of person who will develop Kenya as or stupid MP's fight over more money even though we are yet to see results, we truly need more young people like you to make farming appear "cool" to the young. GREAT JOB!!!!
she is quite an inspirational to those who think you must have land to farm regardless of age so long you have ideas you can make it we all have talents lets explore them
good woman who understands the value of farming...the nondescript so called dot.com idiots wants to spend time roaming in the city covering their backs with some revealing cloths
She has got an inspiring story for the young and women. But If she is making as much as she says, I hope she makes some changes. Its time to invest in tractors and other tech to give those poor animals a rest and would be good for their wellbeing. Not sure about the child labour laws in this country, but I hope those children are going to school and not spending most of their day working.
exchage rate approx $1/85kenya shillings. 4 million is just about 60k dollars. A pretty decent income if one adjust for cost of living that should be only a fraction of USA. Its probably comparable to earning at least $200k in USA
i wish we can be friends. I am into Green Village fish and vegetable farming in Ghana and wants to encourage more graduates to join me. beautiful message .
Have you looked for jobs in nairobi or big cities for five plus years. Please go back to rural areas and do something similar or ranching and reduce traffic jams in Nairobi. There are many jobs that one can do after university. It only takes the first steps. You will waste your precious time in Nairobi eating dust from motorists..
But the sad reality is that people would rather rot in the slums of Nai than go back ocha. This gals can inspire a generation from the hopelessness. Btw I like what you did for ur friend and that water pressure machine. maisha nikuinuana. kudos.
I think its about 11K USD. It's not bad, coz you can live in a decent house for that type of money! She just needs to scale shit up and get her own land.
life is about taking risks,if you have an idea in something different apart from being employed go for it,at the same time if you want to make money easily though within few months,just venture into farming,that's what my mum and siblings are doing and they are so successful in life
Very impressive entrepreneurial spirit, going boldly against cultural norms as well! Having lived and worked in Homa Bay for > 6 years I understand the risky nature of farming there.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see a young person create an idea and succeed.Martha,you're truly an inspiration and a beacon of hope for our youth. And just like your namesake in the Bible,don't be destructed or worry about small things.Instead,serve and feed the people.
Inspirational stuff. thumbs up young lady. South African
I love this black girl she is not trying to get brown and she is making it as a black woman in Africa big up my sister.
Jason Theodore idk if I were completely African or black I wouldn't like being called a black girl but I'm mixed with different races like white,african,japenese and more stuff but I know u meant no offense to that
Jason Theodore she’s not black lol she’s brown. No one is complete of black pigmentation that’s just stupid to say.
@@texanboiii562 mwambie
what has that got to do with anything being discussed in this video???
@@texanboiii562 I am black
Wow....Africa, totally amazing region of the world. Creative ideas, do pay off in all areas of organic farming. All the very Best to you guys. Here's wishing you Good Health, Happiness, Love, Joy, Freedom & Peace, always...congrats.
You bet yah! If only wise business people would properly invest in organic farming, they could do wonders & make a lot of fortune too!
Hello Yusuf, it's true Organic farming is slowly evolving into a niche market, with farmers around the world reaping the benefits for offering such produce into the market place. Being innovative within organic production, will be most helpful in establishing oneself within this lucrative market, for the good of everybody. Ask & you will receive, the truth. With thanks, Peace my friend.
Nick Scott BABY ORGANIC BEETROOT NEWEST TREND,.
for high class restraunts and jusicing,,
Nick Scott hi nick, did u ever grow freshwater prawns,,tks
Thanks Martha for the good work you are doing. We will share your story with young women in Elgeyo Marakwet County. May God bless you because you are an inspiration to many.
the best thing to do in life is to grow food
Bernice Burgess
I am very inspired but her story. Right now Homestead Urban Farming is a Vision that has captivated My Heart . Feeding my family with fresh healthy food from the garden is my Passion I have a Kitchen Herb Garden and an Edible Food Landscape Garden around my house. Every year more vegetables and fruits, herbs , flowers, bushes, roots and trees are added .
Good reporting from this TV station. Many African youths need to see such report so we don't sit and wait for governments to give us jobs. The corrupt governments can't do that
Tonny True. What pisses me off about Africa is a HUGE territory of land being used just to "preserve" lions and other animals. Guess what? Lions don't bring NOTHING to our lives. They are killing machines who need plenty of land to keep alive. Imagine if all that land was used to farm, Africa would be damn rich!!!! I don't mind lions and alligators being extinct, FUCK them! They will not think twice about eating you alive.
FeelingShred We actually have plenty of arable land besides the game reserves that can be used for agriculture . The problem our school system produces young people who despise farming leaving most of the farming to old people who do subsistence farming. We need such stories so that young people can settle and farm instead of walking the streets looking for 'respectable' jobs!
+FeelingShred Except lions and alligators are at the top of their food chains. If they go extinct, their food web structure will be completely fucked.
Tonny Okello I agree with you. Farming is not seen as 'sexy' by the youth. Not only does tje schooling system not promote it, but our youth are also taught to look for jobs after school instead of creating their own jobs...
Tonny
Go to the USA brcause they give out free checks and health care and dental care and housing and food etc....
Plus you can rob people if they have something you want because they give you free lawyers too.
Then claim racism and everyone will be scared to send you to jail.
Everything better in America, America. Everything better in America America....America.
Love this! Such a humble, beautiful, inspiring young lady. In the midst of planning my move back home, I would like to venture into farming in Naivasha.
Kenya is incredibly rich in resources, and it's time we tapped into this as opposed to relying on scarce white collar jobs!
Am also considering this
This makes me so proud to be Kenyan. What an inspiration to all of us.
she is happyly sister! her hard working n good open heart gives strength to mothers, ladies n gals.
Daisy Daniel hy
Thanks Martha for sharing with us your knowledge sister
i did not just watch this i download it so everytime i can look at it,it so informative and inspire me alot
Stephene Muya how do you download from you tube please
What a girl! Beautiful and intelligent!
that's right
I was like whose that😍😛
Evan Thomas
It's Martha... Listen to the video.
You go girl!
Peter H ,it's God's blessings watu wa some nayeye..
I am based in Lagos, Nigeria and would like to make a suggestion to the Smart Farm Crew. Please try to subtitle your programs in English Language since you have some viewers outside of kenya that do not speak swahili or any kenyan language. Thanks for the great job you are doing
helow
nigeria tv wants to be FULLY SUBTITLES,.
Well done Martha! You got up and faced obstacles and did something wonderful with your life. You are an excellent example to teach the rest of us that it can be done
Love this women she is intelligent an beautiful an I hope the best for her an her family. Looks like she has a green thumb. I’ve been waiting so long to see Africans that there whole life of being oppressed now are rich an successful
Its inspiring to see a young lady farmer do so well.
we need this lady to come and live with us in riftvalley,our farms are fertile and i think we need to intermarry if you are still available we say welcome........a very bright young lady success is for people like her
Hi! How can i get in touch with Martha? She inspired me bit how comes this interview is short? Please give our farmers proper interviews just like the ones you give to celebrities.
well said..
+Betty Yoland Well said.
wow you have put it well
Thank you giys
Betty Yoland
You said well well said you said.
Well done Martha. I love this big girl in you. You have made my heart proud.
Blessings from Papua New Guinea. You gave up your journalism background and you sacrificed initial 40gran. For a young lady like you to have that spirit to do that, it must be determination. Love your energy, you will go miles. And I am impressed by your foresights. Martha, you can never go wrong when you are in agriculture business. Everyone lives to eat everyday, so you WILL make money everyday. Good on you girl. .
I’m Montagnard I’m a farmer I watch you video never get bored.
You are bless Martha Atieno
I'm so inspired ... I'm currently working in the coprate. I've managed to raise 20 000 and want to start farming chickens.
I'm so proud of you
Good job Martha, l love farming, from Zimbabwe #
Uhunye na brada Wameharibu soko
wow.. i admire you girl. That is so good and inspiring. I love agric, grew up in a farm and did all the farm routines and its quite enjoyable. Keep it up and i wish you the best.
Martha Otieno Is the kind of leader the people of Homa Bay should learn from . If most people could do this the place would develop .
You are an inspiration to many young people Martha.God bless you.
Wao, I salute you young lady!
Brilliant young lady, the sort kenya needs to sustain its food security, who needs the Israeli? The lady has proved it can be done..sasa serikal kazi kwenyu..
Good work! Brilliant! Awesome as youths should learn from this!!
Farming is also a sector we can venture in and succeed!!
a very good example in the society... kindly show me the way
I will marry you Martha. Im always been a poor farmer too.
Wonderful... Keep it up!!!
I really believe that we should farm and garden here in America everywhere and trade the fruits and vegetables with one another with what we don't have and with what they have and Plant along the highways no one would ever go hungry then it should also be tax deductible when we plant fruit vegetables lentils wheat barley any kind of food source and don't forget billions and billions and billions of land of flowers for the honey bees
I live in NC before every planting season we get up with all the people in the community to see what everybody is planting.Then when harvest time comes around we all trade
Christopher d please tell me what County do you live in? I would like to buy land in NC and research more about farming.
Agriculture is the back bone of every development of a nation
I would like to see her progress seven years later... anyone who knows her whereabouts??
I am very proud of you. May God bless the works of your hands. I promise to pray for you.
Bless you - all the best to you. Its great to see a female farmer and to see the young Africans farming after education.
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Welcome
+ELIAKIM Joseph Sophia,
I live in Ontario Canada and enjoy gardening at my little backyard during the short summer months. I grow some of my produce in pots and some directly in the ground. I plant almost everything and grow potatoes with peelings that really turns out well. I mostly harvest abundance of tomatoes, peppers, shallots, butter nut squash, string beans in yellow, green, purple, sweet peas, spinach, Kyle, swiss chard including bell peppers, sweet banana peppers, hot peppers in different varieties including herbs. Cucumbers and a whole lot more. I give away so much to neighbors and friends at work and still able to freeze lots of tomatoes to use through the winter months till early spring. Just love to garden and wish to have a nice greenhouse I could garden through the winter months. Would be great to live at a warmer location where I could garden all year long. It is incredibly amazing what one little tiny seed to grow into. Would love to do something like what this brilliant lady is doing. My tomatoes mostly reseeds from droppings in the garden and do come back each year in late spring. I planted 6 seeds of Aspergers last summer and by fall I had over 20 Asperger plants growing together. What I didn't know was that, it really spreads and multiplies and also comes back each year as it is considered a perennial plant but could only harvest withing two years. It takes time for it to grow think Aspergers. Gardening is therapeutic and stress relieving I enjoy it with all my heart.
GO GO GO Martha, U'r my college mate though u were some years behind me @ Saint Augustine University of Tanzania( SAUT), but i can guess now u'r capable of employing me. Iam proud she has made it. I remember in those good old days we w're taught Entrepreneurship @ SAUT she
A strong black woman
Lol she's not black
MABUHAY KA FROM PHILIPPINES, LOVE FARMING
while the young Kenyans are waiting for an office job, smart Martha is making millions. Keep it up.
Humility is her trademark
Good job Martha! Your are an inspiration and the kind of person who will develop Kenya as or stupid MP's fight over more money even though we are yet to see results, we truly need more young people like you to make farming appear "cool" to the young. GREAT JOB!!!!
Martha your are truly a true, wise african lady. i admire you.
Good Job and keep it up! Nothing really takes the place of persistence.
Its 9 years later, please do a follow up on this story, what is she doing in life now ? I think many would be interested...
This lady is more useful than some ladies on my Instagram
What a fantastic work she's doing in young age .good luck .
wow...congratulation girl ..god bless
I miss home. Good inspiring work Martha
Someday you will see me rich because of farming
she is quite an inspirational to those who think you must have land to farm regardless of age so long you have ideas you can make it
we all have talents lets explore them
.Kind-of Goldie BBA look alike before stardom....Congrats Martha & may the Lord bless the work of your hands
good woman who understands the value of farming...the nondescript so called dot.com idiots wants to spend time roaming in the city covering their backs with some revealing cloths
She has got an inspiring story for the young and women. But If she is making as much as she says, I hope she makes some changes. Its time to invest in tractors and other tech to give those poor animals a rest and would be good for their wellbeing. Not sure about the child labour laws in this country, but I hope those children are going to school and not spending most of their day working.
Max C
Slave don't know how to drive tractors.
does she have a website.. blessings to you my sista!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Well done go on, wish you more success.👍
Happy for you! Praise Yah!
Yess
Very inspiring Martha........
Wow! Martha if you're reading this kindly get in touch. I really need your help concerning farming.
Thanks in advance
Any updates on her please share.
exchage rate approx $1/85kenya shillings. 4 million is just about 60k dollars. A pretty decent income if one adjust for cost of living that should be only a fraction of USA. Its probably comparable to earning at least $200k in USA
Hello from Norway, I would love to visit your farm.
well you are welcome anytime
hei har du det bra
hellen w i would like to visit her farm too
Jeyrose Syleswaran never
WHERE IS IT,..,.,.,.
From Madrid, Spain,I support you my dear. Go on
Very inspiring indeed from my home county, how can we get her contacts to mentor us. Great keep it up.
True Black woman! Very good!
i wish we can be friends. I am into Green Village fish and vegetable farming in Ghana and wants to encourage more graduates to join me. beautiful message .
Keep up the good work Martha
Dream and achieve it,, bless up black woman
Great job, Love you
Have you looked for jobs in nairobi or big cities for five plus years. Please go back to rural areas and do something similar or ranching and reduce traffic jams in Nairobi. There are many jobs that one can do after university. It only takes the first steps. You will waste your precious time in Nairobi eating dust from motorists..
Your telling the truth!! I stress to people they need to go home/villages
Hi honey I love what u have done. Great work.. I have a farm in Ireland xx
What an inspiration! Good job Martha!!
Good job Martha, very inspiring.
But the sad reality is that people would rather rot in the slums of Nai than go back ocha. This gals can inspire a generation from the hopelessness. Btw I like what you did for ur friend and that water pressure machine. maisha nikuinuana. kudos.
You sound bitter here. Ulithani Nyanza watu wanakufa njaa ama? 😂😂😂😂. They even have a City there called Kisumu
way to go...whoever turned her job application down as a journalist is served!
I think its about 11K USD. It's not bad, coz you can live in a decent house for that type of money!
She just needs to scale shit up and get her own land.
how can I get in touch with these folks; I want to embark on large scale farming. somebody let me know.
Love this very impressive Spirit to me
Good works.Congratulation!
hi, may citizen email me her contacts and how we could do farming in homabay county
life is about taking risks,if you have an idea in something different apart from being employed go for it,at the same time if you want to make money easily though within few months,just venture into farming,that's what my mum and siblings are doing and they are so successful in life
i love this, cool inspiration for me.
Mover and shaker
diana Afandi YES she is. Not waiting on a man to SAVE her!
Where does one get clients when one is doing farming ?? Thank you for answer !
I lyk & am encouraged
Fly sky high sister..Wish you good luck......
Keep it up gal, you have motivated me.
Great work Martha.
I wish Citizen TV can help us follow the progress of this girl. Some of these stories are fabricated.
Good advise
Well Done! Congrats!
incha'Allah c'est l'un de mes rêves investir dans l'agriculture
Ameen bro
wow good girl,keep up dear
I grow pumpkin and watermelon in uganda can I get market in nairobi?
Nakhale Daniel Did you try exporting to richer countries like UK?
***** oh that's great wish I too do same. great. Ty.