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Arthritis led me into farming, I don't regret

Patrick Kamadi harvests carrots, cucumber, courgetteand white radish from his one and half acre farm in kakamega. [Duncan Ocholla]

Patrick Kamadi, 56, sells fresh creeping vines including cucumber and courgette along streets of Kakamega town every day.

He grows them alongside carrots, beetroots and the white radish on his one and half acre farm at Mahondo along the busy Kakamega – Mumias highway.

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