Acres for Agnes

June 2013, The maize is getting tall!

Agnes' maize is getting tall and the groundnuts (peanuts) are also looking good.


A beautiful foggy morning in the valley of River Nzoia. The structure on the left is the 'choo' (outhouse).


Soon the sun comes up, for the start of another day.


View from the outhouse (on top of a termite hill). Maize on the left, groundnuts (peanuts) on the right.


Lots of red beans.


Two kinds of greens, planted on a termite hill.


Finger millet


Cow peas


Adu heads out to fetch water and also gives Zach a ride part-way to school. Abraham, a young neighbor boy, looks on.


Duane and Zach really enjoyed these simple airplanes. Be sure to see the video below!


The older boys, Pope and Adu, are thrilled with their newly cemented floor, table, and chairs! (Tony was away at school)


The older boys now have two small lights in their house. Pope and a neighbor, Levi, install the solar panel on the roof.


A pretty morning in the grassy yard 


The entire farm has now been fenced!


Agnes sits by her newly-built 'smokeless jiko' in her kitchen. It uses less firewood and burns more efficiently for quicker cooking.


The older boys' house on the left, kitchen in the center, and the main house on the right.


Their dog is scrawny just like almost all dogs in Kenya.


On this visit, as well as my last one in May, I did some painting in the sitting (living) room. It really brightened up the place!


Agnes loves her new home!



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm glad to hear Agnes is doing so well in her new home & on her new land. What a hard worker she is to make a go of it, and I trust her boys also do their share, which is good for them too! Also, what are cow peas--are they anything like black-eyed peas?
Donna

deb said...

Yes, the boys help out a lot! Especially Pope and Adu. Tony is at boarding school most of the time and Duane and Zach are still a bit young to do much.

Cowpeas are a legume, with four sub-species, one of which is black-eyed peas. In Kenya, they're mostly grown for the leaves, which are boiled and eaten as greens.