On arrival in Kenya, Widget visited the preschool ‘shamba’ with the children. Grandmother Wanjiku was visiting the preschool to tell the children about how she had been growing some of her own food since she was their age.
Many families in Kenya continue to supplement their incomes by growing food in their “shamba” (garden or local plot). The most common crops are maize, beans, and kale. It is often the women who grow the food, men have traditionally cleared the land, looked after the live stock and milked the animals.
Wanjiku taught the children how they could grow their own maize (corn).
Widget had lots of questions to ask.
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