 I'm scared of heights. I can't even believe that I had to climb this whole thing to get up here You know what am I? Uh-huh all the journeys. I've seen you take around Africa and the world my brother You know and how brave you are dealing with police man and dealing with all this and that you know and then with you know It's sometimes when I see you get scared of a little water a little swimming Everyone needs to know now What am I is scared of heights? Brother it's good to see you. Yes. Pleasure's mine. Thank you so much for supporting the movement Karibu watching my videos and it's time for you to tell me your story. Welcome. Should I introduce myself? I Think everyone already knows. No, everyone knows but it's time for you to subscribe to the channel If you haven't subscribed, my name is Wadam Maya, the one and only annoying YouTuber from Ghana and I'm here in Nairobi KDR here to tell the African stories man African So please help us reach 600,000. Thank you so much by subscribing, okay? Tell me your name who you are and what are you doing here? Well first I cannot let you begin after that wonderful introduction and how many times I've watched you give introductions Without at least come on. What am I? I want to you father Well, no, I say I've been following you all the way from China I was joke when you were messing around with some of the Chinese women I'm so happy that the Trudy and the true Maya gang now is in full effect and that you've come back home Thank you, and you've actually come back to nature farms. That's where we are back to nature farms greetings My name is Kunga Kiho here, and I'm happy that you are here with today as a matter of fact I'll say since we're about nine twelve feet in the air that we had to climb up I want to say take a second breathe Breathe out Breathe out, and then how did your friend say no corona We're in the village exactly all the way in central Kenya in a place called Muranga County Here at back to nature farms organic farms I want to make sure I specify that and We're happy to welcome you all the way from Ghana But your accent doesn't sound like a typical Kenyan accent Yes, you're Kenyan. Well to me my accent sounds like a my accent, but we are Kenyan We are African by heritage both parents, but born and raised in Miami, Florida Where I grew up Came back home. I consider Kenya home first time. I was 10 years old I stayed here for five years So I learned to speak Swahili and I do a Conga Swahili I learned how to speak Swahili That's how you say how you speak Kikuyu in our mother tongue in our sense And so that's why you probably hear me speak a little bit, you know in this way I'm so sorry. I don't want to say you're crazy But I know there's so many young Africans out there who are going to say that this guy is really crazy You're born and raised in Miami You left all that and come and settle in Africa, and I'm not just in Africa. You're just a farmer And you know in Africa we have that perception that a farmer is a poor man Are you a poor man? Well, you know poverty is a state of mind now you can be broke Broke is just a temporary condition But poverty is a state of mind and it's you can change being broke is very hard to change being poor so I've been broke many a times in my life and I've been fortunate to change that several times as well But no, I want to say that I work against a poverty mindset, I would say a scarcity mindset every day to make sure that I'm able to develop a consciousness of abundance in that regards and so I would say being called crazy is something wonderful as a matter of fact I consider you kin because you're one of the craziest people That I ever know and nothing great was ever accomplished by someone who wasn't considered crazy at some particular point in time And so being raised. Yes, Miami, Florida. That's that's home. That's where I knew they called it 305 the dirty south the bottom And being raised there most my life But at some point particular point in time I realize that Every human being on the face of this earth has a place they call home And in that regards no matter where you might travel around the world whether no matter where you may be born in just like if we take a horse and From one country to another country, right? Say if it's an African horse or an African elephant and you take it to a circus or a zoo in Somewhere in America does the child of that elephant all of a sudden Not belong to where the mother or father of that elephant came from no that elephant has a home too and for me Kenya Africa is Was always will be home in terms of this lifetime That is a beautiful message, but I just want to say that you're doing an amazing job in here Can you tell me what you do right now because I have seen it and people watching us in here Don't know what you're doing on the ground So can you tell us like what you're doing exactly in Kenya excellent Well, once I got back home about four or five years ago and initially I was only going to be here for three weeks But it has gone on to be now four or five years 80% of my time here about 20% of my time there in America, but once I got home I realized what had happened in America 20 25 years ago it's starting to happen here on the African continent, which is this rise an unprecedented rise of these non-communicable lifestyle diseases diabetes Cancer hypertension Respiratory conditions are starting to affect Africans whereas five ten fifteen twenty years ago They were almost nonexistent there and a lot of it has to do with lifestyles You have a growing middle-class growing economies growing disposable income They're adopting more of the lifestyles. They're seeing on television. They're seeing on Netflix. They're seeing in the movies And behind that lifestyle Western lifestyle are coming the lifestyle diseases and so a lot of people are experiencing these particular conditions and I one of the reasons that made me come back home was I was a place where I had to Achieve a certain measure of financial success, but I was unhealthy I was unhappy and I said I was going to come back home come back to nature And that's where we are standing right now back to nature farms because I got back home Finding all these things that were happening with the suffering and pain and premature death from these diseases and said Let's go ahead with a few other like minds I was able to associate with and launch and catalyze the movement called the back to nature Movement and back to nature movement is simply based on a very simple philosophy and ideology that the closer we are to nature the more whole happy at peace at ease We are the further we get away from nature and to Process foods and junk foods and all the rest we get into a state of this ease Which is the root word of disease so that's what got me into a farming and particularly organic farming with all all the pesticides with all all the the agricultural Chemicals that they put on that are causing so much damage to people's lives that are being sold to a lot of farmers By the way, would you know what am I at? There are several? pesticides Chemicals that have been banned in Europe They've been banned in America, but are still being sold to Farmers through AgriVets here in Africa. Why is that? And it's the reason they've been banned in those other countries is because they're causing their carcinogens Carcinogenic and they're causing cancers. They're causing a lot of sickness And so that's one of the reasons that we launched the back to nature organic farms You know what you need to take me around the farm. Yes. Let me check what you've planted so far Excellent. I will take you from there. No problem. I only one thing You've got to eat at least something small. I won't from this farm here today How many acres do you have in here? We have about 20 acres here Even though we're developing it in phases. We've currently done about three acres It's intended to be an avocado orchard. I love avocados in that regards. Actually, I'm a vegetarian myself And moving even towards, you know vegan raw foods You may or may not know about raw foods and avocado is like a staple product when you're talking about raw living foods But whether you're a carnivore meat dead flesh eater, no problem Avocados go well with all kinds of foods and so you'll see some of the avocados and other things that were growing on there So we'll descend you guys might get a chance to see how scared water Maya is trying to climb down I don't know if they see that these are to 20. These are 10,000 liter water tanks Because water is very very important When you are farming and we discovered that and so we've raised them up this high We built a water tower to use gravity because then the gravity allows the water to get pumped and Distributed through irrigation into the fields that you'll get a chance to walk and see everything in here It's literally everything in here and it's worked by solar panels if you look up. These are solar panels We've dug a borehole. We've gone down about 700 800 feet about 250 meters and the Sun comes on beautiful nature It pumps and brings the water all the way up into these tanks that stores them And then they're able to distribute the water out through irrigation through the system. Yes So in here you'll find a wonderful mix of it different horticultural fruits and vegetables and in that we have cabbages You see here growing those who may or may not know passion fruits and the beauty wonderful That's how they look like as they grow and they'll grow and become a whole entire Cover area on there. You will see some cabbages that we have on the ground in between that We're growing some what we'll call our indigenous vegetables in Kenya the terraris those Kenyans East Africans might know That we have indigenous vegetables spider shade they might call it in English, etc We have some maize that are here on this particular side. You'll see some spinach. You see some Swiss chard You could actually call Swiss charge a spinach here in Kenya You'll see a mix of beans that are on here. You'll see where we came from the water system up there This is how you get the water pressure that gets distributed throughout the land The reason it it goes out with that much pressure is because of the elevated Towers and they all this has come from the borehole in the ground That we had gone 250 meters deep pump the water up and through gravity it pushes it and then we are just attached pipes here And then we're able to water there when we get to the back You'll see a sprinkler system that we have been able to set up all this so that we can grow food There are a lot of times people might go to grocery stores or especially in America You have these big, you know shopping centers and stuff and people don't know where the food is coming from And then on top of that what is used on the food and in the food in order to? Grow the food a lot of pet chemicals and stuff So come here really quickly here in our grading shed. You have opportunity to see something quite interesting that we're doing here right in here Is a interesting concoction mix that we are growing organically bacteria healthy bacteria That's made to out oven. You see can you smell it? Yeah, there you go It's a mix between molasses It's a mix between healthy great bacteria a lot of green foliar that we put in there And that's how we make organic Inputs that we can be able to put on to the Building up the soil because the soil is very very important That we can be able to also have ways of naturally controlling pests and diseases because when you farm You always have these natural natural pests and diseases And how can you chase them away or work in harmony with them without spraying too much? Chemicals so come over here. Let me introduce you to our wonderful cow And in that regards Well, you get a chance to see Cow and a cow is part of an ecosystem of a farm Because when you feed the cow and then the cow goes to the bathroom either a number one or number two You can work your way this way So this is where we feed the cow and he gets a chance to drink you coming to say hi gonna Come in and say hi gonna How you doing how you doing baby so Now with that when she goes ahead and peas when she goes ahead and Goes in number two what happens we're able them to collect that draw it and we send it to a pit and This is like a composting pit That's here that we collect certain dry material we mix it together in that and then from here we move it To a particular composting heat heap and in that we put certain particular healthy bacteria We mix it with ash we mix it with water several different components that then in about eight nine weeks By turning it over every three weeks you turn it over you mix it then mother nature at the end gives you a wonderful fertilizer Natural fertilizer that we're able then to use to grow green without the spraying of the chemicals and things along those lines And so that's one of the reason Understand yeah, you're trying to do an organic farming Organic farm is the way to go back to nature is the way to go and we've got to stay Close to the earth so because guess guess what water maya with all the good work You're doing you are going to raise Africa to heights unimaginable Africa to the world Right. So now what happens if we build such a wonderful Africa and then everyone is sick Everyone has diabetes Everyone has cancer you won't even get have an opportunity to enjoy This Africa that we're working so hard to see right so someone has to think about the food system How do we you know have a value chain? How do we in terms of produce food that's healthy so the Africans can think right feel right act right and enjoy The beauty that the Almighty as you say grab Africa like you grab your woman There you go, so that's a little bit of a sort of this system. We have some goats there You have opportunity maybe to see some chicken, you know, etc And we also use their byproducts their ways and stuff for that You may see the cows and the goats in the back there, but we do let them out let them bring Graze etc Well, my brother I just want to say if you ever have been to Starbucks or any coffee house around the world Some of the best coffee grown in the world is grown here in East Africa Because remember Africa has 60% of the world's arable land in terms of growing and we grow everything So right here we have an example of a coffee tree on Can you imagine can you see the little baby coffee? Let's say we have on here. Oh my god Like oh, I've never seen a coffee tree before not to talk of the coffee beans. Yes when it comes to cocoa Cocoa that one we've seen you go. That's a young coffee bean It usually will get red it turns color and when you bite it It will be sweet now to be sour because it's young But this is how the coffee grows on coffee trees and here and about Actually, no funny enough look this way if you look all the way here every little stump in the ground We've just pruned them you see every 10 15 years you prune you cut you leave the stem in the ground And they start to grow. So if you look here, we have probably about another five acres just of coffee alone in that regards Living the life man. Well, my brother you got to understand Africa as you always say, right? If you haven't been to Africa you haven't seen Do you think it's worth it to be a farmer in Africa? I Would have to say There's probably nothing more rewarding Than getting your feet dirty connecting to the soil This soil is what even if you go back spiritual systems with the Bible, right? We came from the soil We're going back to the soil. This soil is what gives us food. It's what allows it So there's nothing more to me. I look at this soil African soil as sacred soil So farming in Africa is a beautiful thing getting close to nature That's why we call this farm back to nature farms is something wonderful and when you can do it sustainably and Profitably and provide employment you've seen some of our workers and be able to help them You know pay their school your children school fees, you know We know we're putting good food on people's table Then what am I this could be nothing that's more fulfilling not running around in a rat race in a concrete jungle in America Trying to duck and hide from police Trying to run away from the system. They're always trying to get you so absolutely. Yes If you have a message for a brother fellow brothers and sisters in the diaspora, if you want to tell them to come back home What would that message be? the message will be particularly to Those of African ancestry even though we do know that all humanity started in Africa All humans on the earth eventually gene and this is proven Scientifically the genes traced back to Africans But particularly the Africans who look like water Maya and myself were on the earth today we have a African civilizational inheritance Which has been disinherited from us? part of claiming that heritage water Maya particularly our civilizational heritage is repatriating first mentally and psychologically and eventually physically Eventually spiritually if you've ever lived outside of Africa, you know people that look like us water Maya always find ourselves on Catching the short end of the stick everywhere in the world. We always find ourselves being the most disadvantaged It is on this land that we currently stand that we have the greatest opportunity To be the fullest to to realize our fullest potential as human beings And so we're not saying because 80% of my time I spend here 20% of my time I spend over there We're not saying you have to be here a hundred percent of the time, but you've got to come and water Maya Let's come down a little bit. You've got to come and reconnect with Mama nature with Mama Africa Back to nature and there's nothing that reckon replicate that. There's no amount of money There's no amount of fame. There's no amount of cars houses that can be able to give us water Maya this feeling this Experience that we have when we connect with the earth that we come from So come back home Get to experience what this man experiences Every day of his life traveling around the world traveling around Africa and all the countries and getting a chance to give us Experiences I told him what am I what you're really doing is therapy You're giving people psychological Therapy especially Africans because we've been so poisoned psychologically with images that show us Ourselves in negative lights less than human beings three-fifths of a human being But what this man does which is we cannot even pay him back for he gets a chance to therapy Psychologically give us therapy and shows ourselves in a positive image the narrative of Africa changes So asante son of my brother I want to say thank you so much for taking me around your farm and I hope people can reach out to you on this email I'm gonna put on a screen People can reach out to you on your number so that they'll be able to buy stars from this farm It's by force to buy from is it back to nature organic farm. I wanted to mention your name, but I couldn't