Backed by a team with 20 year experience , Yebeltal Getachew could not let the chance pass of starting up his own farm in Kenya . When the chance develop , the end of 2018 , he established a 35 ha farm in Saboti Kitale and named it Yellow Grove Farms . Now , 7 months later , 5 ha is fill up with organically grown Gypsophila and limoniums . The first stems have just been sold at the Dutch auction and they are proud of with the final result .
Andrew Khaemba , farm managing director at Yellow Grove farm at theIFTEX2019 in Nairobi .
In December 2018 , when the troupe was established they had to start from scratch ; build raw roads , drilling boreholes and constructing a artificial lake , apply an irrigation scheme , connecting the power , creating the beds , planting the plants and lay down the packhouse . All , and even more have been done over the last calendar month . And it was just in time to show their varieties at the IFTEX 2019 , that took place before this month .
Some pictures of the construction of the farm
At the farm , 5 ha is presently implant with 2 type of gypsophila , namely XLence -with great peak sizing - and White Cosmic - with intermediate - big flowers , and Limonium Pina Colada , which are varieties of Isreali breederDanziger . All blossom are grown organically . " This means that we grow them without utilisation of fertilizers and chemicals , aside from the post - harvesting solution " , he continues . " Therefore 95 % of the growing is with organic manure from zebu animals and confection of the animal ’s waste material like urine , moo-cow - dung ( impudent ) , wood top soil molasses and bean flour to make slurry which is both fertilizer and pesticide . The intermixture is go for / drenched to the crop every week until harvesting time . This method conserves the environment and ameliorate the soil social structure and grain , hence there are more microbes in the soil , boosting the macroflora and the microflora in the soil . "
The field at the end of May , 2019 .
Year round , they are look to produce 3 flushes . " It takes like 14 to 16 weeks for the gypsophila to mature . " They lately sent their first flowers to the auction and Andrew Khaemba , farm handler at Yellow Grove Farms , was proud of with the reaction . " The grocery store response was so upright because of the honorable caliber and weight of our flowers . " And he has good hopes for the future tense . " We already have honorable standing order for our flowers . "
How the field of operations looks now :
Block 5 , where the Yellow Grove plants are plant .
For more informationYellow Grove FarmsAndrew KhaembaEmail:[email protected]www.yellowgrove.keTwitter : YellowGroves
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