“This here is an ideal place to raise cattle,” Kasole told AllAfrica.com, explaining that the climate is cool and cows graze on lush grass.
Cheese makers stir hot water and cheese curds in a bathtub.
(Photo: BBC/Twitter)
(Photo: BBC/Twitter)
When they’re
not busy eating, his cows produce about 100 gallons of milk per day,
allowing him to make up to 1,500 wheels of Gouda per month. Unlike many
other small farmers in the hills—who produce their cheese in wooden
sheds using old bathtubs, fishnet screens, and metal cooking pots—Kasole’s cheese factory is lined with glazed tiles and more modern equipment, including a sterilized metal tub.
Thanks to his wife’s
Swiss roots, he’s traveled to the country and considers the cheese
factories there a model for his farm. He’s even adopted the Swiss
tradition of adorning his cows with bells, partly as a novelty but
mostly as a deterrent to cattle thieves. To make his farm even more
productive, he’s in the process of building a small hydroelectric
turbine along the river that runs through his pasture so he’ll have an around-the-clock power source.
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