Stuart Barden in Kenya

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Back to Australia until January

Annie, James,Grace and I are off back to Australia to complete the school and crop year. We will be packing things up for the full time move in the middle of January.

Its been a busy five weeks here getting things moving and although things often don't happen as quickly as we may all like there is still good progress.

The 16 ha (40 acre) Research farm is sitting waiting to be developed and when we come back in January it will be high on the list. There is great potential to make a huge difference in the crop yields of the small holder's who just for some information can I am sure achieve much higher and more importantly for small farmers (1 to 5 acres) more yield stability from season to season. i.e avoid the feast/famine cycle.

Thankyou to you the readers of our blog for your interest, it is encouraging, I will give some less regular posts until January 15th when we return to Kenya although I will show some of our Australian crops and harvest as this may be of interest to those outside Australia.

An interesting thing is who has been reading this blog so far, there has to date been people in Russia, Uganda, Canada, US, UK, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa and of course Australia.(Blogger has a Stats page that shows me where the audience is coming from)

Friday, September 2, 2011

Can you smell Monkey Poo

I jumped in my ute today and drove up to our Shamba (farm) and noticed that I felt wet, those dirty monkeys had left a great deposit on the drivers seat.
I have now joined both Grace and James in the "not happy with moneys camp"
Annie and the Kids thought it a great joke. Very Funny!!!!!!

Birthday party at the on farm Polo ground at Sunset

We had a great small farm gathering for our new friend Tim's birthday.
Tim and Diane live about 100m from our house and are missionaries from Canada who have been in Kenya for over 25 years.

The Team helping us burn

How many people can you fit on one very small tractor? At Least ten it appears, we were burning off some country to help the clearing crew.
We are about to go out again this morning for another burn.
If any one thinks this photo was staged is was not, TIA (this is Africa)
Once again you can click on any photo to enlarge.

Caught in a Traffic Jam on the way home from town