Sunday visit to the farm

After church today, I had a lot to attend to and planned to go out to watch a football match in a viewing centre, but I decided to lie on my bed to take a little rest in the afternoon, and the rainy weather added some sort of laziness to the atmosphere. I was doing that when my phone rang. I checked and saw that it was one of the closest people to me in the city I’m residing in, whom I fondly call uncle. He said I should help him bring some sacks and nylon bags from the shop, which I have the key to, to the farm. He was harvesting and had probably run out of sacks to pack the produce.

I went to the shop, got the sacks, boarded a bike, and went straight to the farm. The last time I was there was when the pepper plants were just coming up, but now they’ve all matured and are producing ripe fruits that are due for harvest. The ones he had already plucked, he had to quickly pack them inside the nylon bags because, according to him, it’s not good for water to touch the fruits once they’ve been plucked, and I really chuckled at that. The weather was dull due to the off-and-on rainfall, and I couldn’t take a bright or shiny photo of the farm.

After he finished packing, I had to ride his bike with the sack of peppers to drop them at the shop for his wife, who was to carry them for distribution to those who had made requests.

When I returned, I took my time to walk around the farm, asking questions too. One part is fully grown and ready for harvest, while another part is being nurtured for a start. He had nursed the seeds into plants in his house and later brought them to the farm for transplanting.

I asked him how he managed to do the nursing since the first set he owned were bought as already-nursed plants and transplanted directly to the farm, and he said he extracted some seeds from the harvested fruits, and that’s how he got the seeds to plant and nurse. There’s just a lot of work he’s doing on the farm. The processes are so many, but they’re worth it. As for the weeding, the farm looks very neat and void of weeds, and when I asked how he was able to clear off the weeds by himself, he said he got help from some guys, whom he actually tipped with a little money to work on the weeds.

Thanks for reading.

Photos are mine