Hello Hive

A happy new week to us all. I hope that we had the best of the weekends and some quality rest to refresh us and assist us to embrace the new week

For us here the journey continues and the struggle to grow our own is so important to us more than anything else. The economy is so bad that since there is practically no job to do to earn a living we stick with our hoes and cutlasses to till the ground and at least provide for ourselves something to eat.

Even during the dry seasons you when there is no rain to plant any crops you still see a handful of people in the farm scavenging the forest, looking for fruits and nuts or even growing some vegetables in the farms using the water source from the river to grow these crops.

All these are in am attempt to make food available for ourselves at all times. Food is an asset of all time.

In the dry seasons like this, the only major crops we have available at farm are some biannual crops like this our cassava here. They continue to grow for about two years before the tubers are harvested. Hence there is need to preserve the crops during the dry season so that there can be continuous growth. We have earlier carried out some wedding in this farm and are equally preparing to do a second weeding

I was so surprised to see that the farm has gotten overgrown with grasses even after we have done the weeding earlier. These grasses has been growing continuously during the dry season not minding that the ground is not wet. Weeding is very essential, it keeps away the grasses that will otherwise attractive forest fires go burn down the whole farm and crop.

The weeding has go be done both within and around the farm to preserve the crops
Ever since I was born I have grown to know that Most of the people living around here do not eat light foods. Majority of the foods eating here are heavy startchy foods like
this our cassava and it's good that we have different processing methods for these starch food including fermentation so that people do not end up eating too much poisonous starch into their systems.

We generally go round to inspect all the crops remaining in the farm in this season in order to preserve them till the rains resume.