26/08/2026
He earns KSh 25,000 per day from his pig business, based on an estimated monthly turnover of about KSh 450,000–750,000.
Twelve years ago, Samuel Kimani was teaching Kiswahili and History at Kapsara Secondary School in Trans Nzoia County. He had served for 17 years in the classroom. But his heart was elsewhere. He quit. He walked away from the security of a teacher's salary to pursue a dream that most people would have called a gamble.
Today, he runs a pig farm with over 300 pigs and slaughters about 30–50 pigs every month. He owns Spring Farm in Matunda, Trans Nzoia, a two-acre farm that hosts over 300 animals kept in three huge sties with eight units each.
He started with just two sows that he bought at KSh 5,000 each from Farmers Choice. He built a sty to host them, with the venture gobbling up over KSh 150,000 in capital. Most people would have stopped there. Most would have played it safe.
Samuel did something different.
He learned. He grew. He built. He formulated his own feeds because commercial ones were expensive. He uses maize, pellets, sweet-potato silage and vegetables to make the feeds, saving KSh 50 per 70kg bag.
He has employed two workers. Their work starts at 6am daily, when they clean the pigsties, with the first feeding at 9am. The second feeding session is at 3pm. The pigs are fed twice a day.
He also built a resort: Springfarm Resort in Matunda. He supplies his own pigs to his own hotel. Vertical integration. Control from farm to table.
He sells gilts for between KSh 25,000 and KSh 35,000. A 70kg bag of commercial feed goes for KSh 2,800, but he saves money by making his own.
The challenges are real. High costs of feed ingredients, mainly cereals and protein sources. Space constraints. In the next five years, he wants to relocate the farm to another place because he has no space for expansion.
But he does not regret his decision. He has no doubt that he will remain a pig farmer for life.
Here is what Samuel Kimani taught me, Goal Getter.
He quit a stable teaching job to chase a dream in pig farming. He had no guarantees. No safety net. Just two sows and a belief that he could build something better.
He could have given up. He could have stayed in the classroom. He could have played it safe.
But he did not.
He built a pig empire. He employed workers. He built a hotel. He created a system that turns pigs into profit, day after day, month after month.
You might be in your teaching season right now. Safe. Predictable. But restless. Something inside you is whispering that there is more.
Do not ignore that whisper.
Learn the business. Reinvest the profits. Build a market around what you produce. Employ others. Build something that outlasts you.
Samuel Kimani started with two sows and a dream. Today, he has about 600 pigs, slaughters 30–50 pigs a month, runs a hotel, and has built a legacy.
Your breakthrough is coming. The door is open.
Keep going.
