A mini thread.

What do you do with your sweet potato peels? Amaara as known in my native language, can be used to make flour. Gluten free to be precise.

As taught by my grandma, I wash mine, dry them, &grind into flour that I use for baking,porridge and ugali. #Foodsovereighty Since I struggle with gluten. I am always exploring with different flours. For baking, I mix the sweet potato peel flour with cassava flour and make bread. I should mention that the flour has a sweet taste because of the natural sugar in the sweet potatoes. And zero bloating💃

A thread on local foods

Several years ago,I was diagnosed with a chronic medical condition. My doctor asked me to try local foods with an aim of getting me off medication that I had to take daily to numb the pain.

This journey has taught me a lot of things. I have learnt ways of cooking traditional foods. I even re-learnt how to catch termites and fry them. A skill that was getting rusty since my grandma died😂

A thread on the use of paw paw leaves ash in controlling weevils and grain borers.

On several occasions, I saw my grandmother use ash from pawpaw leaves to control weevils in her stored grains #seeds #ash #pawpaw She mixed the grain with the ash and stored them in the granary, gourds or earthen pots.
This deterred weevils from attacking the grains.#pawpaw

A thread on lifting the ban on GMOs in Kenya.

In 2020, I wrote why the move by the Kenyan government then to lift the ban on GMOS was an ill advised

I still hold the same opinion today. Here’s why.

Link to article conservationatheart.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/eco… 1.Lifting the ban exposes innocent smallholder farmers to draconian intellectual property laws by the multinational corporations fronting GMOs.

GM seeds are patented and this could, for instance, have farmers forced to pay royalties for GM crops that contaminate their farms