?Youth smell the coffee, ditch bodabodas for farming

Charles Mutwiri at his coffee farm at Nthimbiri, Central Imenti in Meru County. He owns over 30, 000 coffee bushes and has his own factory. [OLIVIA MURITHI/STANDARD] 

Somewhere in Meru, a group of youth is brewing a coffee revolution. The youth who might have looked at farming as old school and a reserve for their parents, are slowly embracing agriculture.

In their 20s and early 30s they want to prove that farming is cool and one can depend on it to meet their daily needs. Although most of them don’t own farms, their parents have allocated them spaces where they are crafting their own farming stories a coffee seedling at a time.