Shamba ya Lemayian - Permaculture home in Kenya with Agroforestry ideas - 2024 update

[@sutlucorek2434]

Your videos really good plants are healthy and have a more fruit or eating leaves . Animals looks so happy. Good job 😊

[@lucysiringwani9931]

New subscriber. Viewing from 🇬🇧

[@anniemwende5931]

This is quite impressive. Keep it up.

[@waltoninstitute-s5o]

good job lemaiyan - environment is indeed very important

[@loganwrider]

I love what you, and your neighbors, are doing there to transform the environment with permaculture. It's inspiring. 🙏🏼

[@MaxLemayian]

Thank you! Infact, 1 neighbour after another are challanged and starting to try new things. Not everything but atleast one of the techniques used. Some do water catchemts now, others grass, others tree planting.

[@MaxLemayian]

Good day everyone! Were are you viewing from?

[@Altheodi]

Australia 🇦🇺

[@MaxLemayian]

@Altheodi that is great, thank you!

[@MsPeacelove01]

NSW, Australia. In an arid part of the country. Absolutely love what you have achieved. Very inspiring.

[@MaxLemayian]

@@MsPeacelove01 Thank you! Your encouragement matters a lot! What interests you the most?

[@videosmurf]

We are currently watching @work😊in Solna Sweden

[@Carol_Grace]

Nice job Max Lemayian it’s amazing how you have transformed that place and it’s still transforming.

[@MaxLemayian]

@@Carol_Grace asante sana!

[@Carol_Grace]

Karibu sana Max.

[@carmellinagituku4726]

Thank you very much. I am watching you from the states. You have taught me a lot.😊

[@MaxLemayian]

@@carmellinagituku4726 thank you! What do you like the most?

[@CharlesNyingi-jn1og]

Sopaa Lemayian, viewing from Scotland. Indeed doing a very inspiring venture. Hope this repricated in Samburu!

[@MaxLemayian]

@@CharlesNyingi-jn1og thank you so much! Yes, the people arround do get interested in this more and more! The transformation challanges them and the techniuqes used are affordable.

[@CharlesNyingi-jn1og]

@ I used to criss cross maralal many decades ago and you are doing great and being instrumental Samburu and kenya by extension

[@TheVigilantStewards]

I have never met a Swede I didn't like in Kenya, well done! Greetings from Meru/Laikipia county junction

[@MaxLemayian]

@@TheVigilantStewards asante sana!!

[@sutlucorek2434]

Şuanda kısıtlı internetim var bu yüzden kendi dilimde yazıyorum umarım çeviri yapabilirsin 😊. Turkish language, please tranlate youre language. Aslında kuraklığa Dayanıklı birçok tür ve çeşit var bunları bir şekilde elde edebilirseniz çeşit artar. Kesinlikle öncelik tagasaste ( tree Lucerne) ( chamaecytisus proliferus var palmensis. Nitrojen fiksasyonuda kesinlikle zehirli olmayan yapraklar yılın her zamanı hayvanlar yiyebilir. Koyun, keçi, inek, yada diğer hayvanlar. Belki Akdeniz bitkileri edinebilirsiniz. Örneğin zeytin olea europea, salvia officinalis, belki ceratoina siliqua, romarinus officinalis, Phoenix dactylifera or Phoenix canariencis ( Kanarya adalarına özgü ve diğeri ise Arap yarım adası) belki daha yerli üst katman ağaçları edinebilirsiniz. Ekolojik sistemi bozabilir ancak belki okaliptus türleri yönetilir ise zararlı olmayabilir. Aslında afrikaya ait birçok tür var özellikle de Albizia türleri dikensiz olanlar yada Dikenli ancak çok fazla fayda sağlayan Türler . Sanırım Albizia lebbeck dikensiz diye hatırlıyorum ve iyi bir Azot ve destek ağacı. Afrikaya özgü birçok tür arasında Moringa türü de var umarım araştırma imkanın olur özellikle kuru bölgelere bakmanı tavsiye ederim mesela Somali Kenya Kamerun mali Zambiya veya Zimbabve Mozambik Çad yerli türleri listesi edinir isen bitkileri bulman kolaylaşır.

[@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher]

First, that Samburu agent -100%. Well done, loving it. Second, consider trying tree tomato and a few Macadamia trees

[@MaxLemayian]

@@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher thank you and thank you for your advise! I have tried matunda damu/tree tomato many times. It give great harvest (50-200)/tree unfortuanally they did not survive the 3 year drought. Now is when I am replanting in my most fertile and moist spots.

[@MaxLemayian]

@@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher would love to try macadamia. Not seen it in my local nursery. Might go to Laikipia to try to find it.

[@TPking-x8n]

Sheeesh!!! Good job!! Looking for land that i can transform like this😍😍😍

[@MaxLemayian]

@TPking-x8n the more dry the more available it is... 😀

[@kindhrtdiscoveries4581]

Come for 30acres in malindi

[@christophday3435]

From Philippines. I like your approach. So centered and focussed on what realy matters. I like your approach with the animals. A little point for you: It's not at first the organic matter on top of the soil that builds dark soil. It's the living roots in the soil. The roots release root exedues, which are feeding the Microbes in the soil and the dead microbes make the soil black. logic the dead microbes contain lots of carbon right? And they contain Protein, hence Nitrogen. Togethjer with minerals they mine from the soil. So the plant is fed by the excretions of microbes and decaying microbes. Your Swales help to moisten soil to a much deeper level and keep it moist over the year and this is where microbes thrive and multiply. So the combination of the two is what optimizes black soil growth. Of cource organic matter also contributes to plant growth and adds waterholding capacity. Additional a shade tolerant groundcover can trapp falling leaves very efficiently, creating a thick layer of humus and soft, very aerated soil beneath. My wife introduced such a groundcover on our farm and I helped it spreading. What I described happened under a legume tree which is shedding its leaves once a year. The covercrop always came through. A 30 to 50 cm thick permanently moist mat out of fallen leaves entangled with the covercrop developed with the soft soil below. The covercrop is edible. It's leaves taste sour maybe from oxalic acide which would make it not a first choice food. As of now I didn't care to find out the scientific name of the plant. From the growth habit and its fruitstand I would put it into the family of blueberries. It has 4 to 5 cm big pink flowers. I had the chance to see how soil was built on the farm of my wife during the last 16 years. Most interesting are the places with Accacia mangium and those with waterchestnut trees (also called freshwater Mangrove). Under the Acacia Mangium trees the soil was 20 to 30 cm thick and dark brown. below that another layer of almost equal size, where you can see strands of dark soil penetrating into the loam soil. On one tree I saw fat root nodules. Other trees didn't have any root nodules, maybe because of fire, used before we took over the farm. Since I know this now, it would be a good idea to scatter soil with nodules under the accacia Mangium trees and other leguminous trees without root nodules in the soil. This I didn't because I had to leave the farm which was contaminated with the spray from the nearby pineapple plantation, which caused symptoms of poisoning in my body. Within that soil were also big white grey lose nodules. These could be colonies of microbes which were under all the mangium trees independend from root nodules. The smell of the soil was like the night soil of my grandparents. Under the Waterchestnut trees the soil is greybrown to a depth of about half meter. The fleshy fat roots seem to bring lots of activity into the soil. One root is at least as thick as the trunk of the tree and there are 3 to 5 of them per tree. Ginger which I planted into this soil, casted over a pile of organic matter, started flowering 2 to 3 Months after planting. Also a banana made fresh fast growing shoots in this soil.

[@MaxLemayian]

Thank you for sharing your experiance!

[@kengachanja5476]

Great work Lemayian!! Very impressive! also impressive is the Kenyan accent😂. Have you realized you've picked it up?

[@MaxLemayian]

@@kengachanja5476 asante!interesting! Is it the words I chose or how I pronouns them?

[@sharonatuhaire0]

Yes his accent is totally local. I like the permaculture farming your doing, that will help conserve your natural surrounding.

[@regymach1]

😂😂 💯 I was like, how does his English even have a Maasai accent ??

[@kenfamenterprise7204]

Great job...just curious..How do you support this work economically

[@MaxLemayian]

Thanks, trough work, I am blessed with a great employer.

[@waltoninstitute-s5o]

what are your contacts if one wanted to visit .....

[@TheVigilantStewards]

When I first heard of the Olea africana a few years ago, I thought it had something similar to an olive on it, but it seems like it doesn't produce any food for humans directly, is that correct? Do you have any acacia senegal for producing arabic gum or frankencense or myrrh?

[@MaxLemayian]

@@TheVigilantStewards the olea africana produces too small olives. Grafting with cultiveted veriaties should be possible and is someting I am interested to try in the future.

[@MaxLemayian]

@@TheVigilantStewards the trees you are asking for are not found were we are. Our rainfall is small but temperature is fare. Those speacies thrives in the most hottest sides of samburu.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

I tried sesbania sesban, leucaena, gliricidia, mexican sunflower, and castor in Nanyuki for biomass in syntropic system, and only the mexican sunflower and leucaena performed very well. It was on the Nyeri side where there is horrendously degraded compacted black cotton, seems like elephant grass and eucalyptus and acacia are the only things over there that like to grow.... am happy to be on the meru side with red soil now. Do you consume the flesh of your animals from slaughter? We are plant based over here, I always wondered what people eat out there in the desert, have to be very creative to breakaway from the pastoralist culture I suppose. I'm sure it would make things a lot easier if you do since you can convert grasses into food and bugs into eggs etc

[@MaxLemayian]

@@TheVigilantStewards great to get your comment and hear your experiance. Yes, dryland offer less opputunity for a vegetarian diet. The most potential is grass production which can be conveted into meat and milk. Beans also do well and stores well. Maize do well when the soil is improved with manue. Many grow meat and trade with maize and beans. Typical foods are milk with ugali, sikuma ugali, managu ugali, cabbage ugali and beans ugali.

[@MaxLemayian]

@@TheVigilantStewards when I came to Kenya I was a vegetarian. After staying with the maasai comunities my prefered foods are milk and meat from the shamba... (but not the paket/supermarket one, this I still avoid...)

[@larrybad9821]

Your mannerisms are now like a typical Masai 😅. Welcome to Kenya

[@MaxLemayian]

Asante sana!

[@RICARDODist]

White massai😂

[@TPking-x8n]

Do you sell your goats?

[@MaxLemayian]

@TPking-x8n I have recently sold all the sheep to prepare for the dryspell. The male goats I sell when +6month old. The female I keep to increase my stock...

[@Elizabeth-y6t]

I thought foreigners can’t buy land in Kenya

[@MaxLemayian]

Foreigners can buy municipal land or leasehold.

[@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher]

@@MaxLemayian You can also buy freehold land BUT you will have to convert it to leasehold land.