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How a kilo of worms transformed my farm

Mr John Mureithi, a fruit farmer at his farm in Mwangaza village in Nyandarua County. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]

If John Mureithi was to write his farming story, its title would read ‘How a kilogramme of worms turned me into a green thumb’.

A bustling orchard and countless tree nurseries with over 70 species of endangered indigenous trees completes his farm in Ndaragwa, Nyandarua County.

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