Rangwe, Homa Bay
Joseph Otieno
- Years farming
- 21
- Village
- Rangwe, Homa Bay
- Favourite crop
- Cassava
- Crops
- Cassava, Groundnuts, Millet, Sorghum, Pawpaw, Chillies
Joseph came back to Rangwe from Nairobi in 2004 with a hoe and a theory: that the red, light soil of his father's plot could grow cassava that cooked floury instead of watery. Twenty-one seasons later, he has been proven right often enough to stop arguing about it.
He rests each block every third season and rotates groundnuts through it. It costs him yield. It buys him taste.
He digs to order. If you buy cassava from Joseph on a Tuesday, it was underground on Monday night.
Growing practices
- Third-season fallow
- Groundnut rotation
- Dug to order
- Seed saved on farm
Harvest calendar
Jan – Mar
Groundnut lifting
Apr – Jun
Cassava, continuous
Jul – Sep
Millet and sorghum threshing
Oct – Dec
Cassava and pawpaw
Films from the farm
Current harvest
Finger Millet (Kal)
KSh 420 · 1 kg
White Sorghum
KSh 360 · 1 kg
Groundnuts
KSh 480 · 1 kg, raw
Stone-Ground Groundnut Paste
KSh 620 · 500 g jar
Cold-Pressed Sunflower Oil
KSh 890 · 1 litre
Cassava
KSh 260 · 2 kg
Aliya — Sun-Dried Beef
KSh 980 · 400 g
Pili Pili Chillies
KSh 150 · 250 g
Sunrise Pawpaw
KSh 300 · 2 fruits
What customers say
“My mother is from Ndhiwa. These taste exactly the way hers did. That is the whole review.”
“The difference against market cassava is real. Only note: use it fast, four days is genuinely the limit.”
Visit
Festival
The Harvest Festival
Six villages, one field. Music, wrestling, roast maize and the year's first cassava.
KSh 2,500 · One day · August
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