Her father worked as a groundsman at the University of Nairobi. He knew the value of tending and caring, pruning. Her mother, a peasant farmer of extraordinary strength, bore and raised 12 children, one of whom was Esther Ngari, now Managing Director of Kenya Bureau of Standards.
Esther’s dream was to leave home in Nyandarua and become a dental surgeon; instead, she finally settled for Dairy Science and Food Technology at Egerton University.
