‘Amazing welcome’ for Heston Chef

It’s Day 2 of masterchef Ashley Palmer-Watts’ trip to Farm Africa’s work in Western Kenya.

Ashley is going to stay with Joyce Kadenge and her family in the conmmunity as he explores ways of helping people to add value to the fish they farm for food and income.

Joyce Kadenge

Yesterday afternoon he met her and had ‘an amazing welcome’.

They all had tea together, then a formal introduction followed. Ashley was impressed by the ceremonious quality of the engagement, which he says seems typical of the region.

Ashley also got down to business with a first visit to one of  Farm Africa’s network of Aqua Shops where he met some of the people who have started farming fish, and he heard about what he called the “the difficulties and challenges and the positives” of the aquaculture initiative.

Read Ashley’s Africa Diary for as-it-happens updates, images and video from his trip.

You can also follow Ashley’s trip through Kenya on Twitter using the hashtag #ChefAfrica.

Find out more about Farm Africa’s Aqua Shops Project.