I want to share with you all how I visited my farm to uproot my cassava and thus see how the farm is doing. I understand the purpose of this community and that is why I really fit in here because I have a farm of my own.
Having a farm and having crops in it is a thing of joy. Being able to grow the food I eat is just amazing considering how hard it is to make ends meet. Food items are skyrocketing in prizes in the market day by day. I really pity the families with many mouths to feed.
Just last year, I am my family decided to join the farmers rank by planting few crops in our farm of a little above 100 by 50 square meters which we bought in 2020. It was not easy but we had to tighten our belts to be able to get that land. We plan building on it so that we can stop paying rent. We are yet to raise the money for that but for the moment, we decided to be farming on it.
We planted cassava, pumpkin and maize on it during farming season last year. Maize 🌽🌽🌽 and pumpkin has finished while we have cassava left.
We have harvested cassava about 3 times from that same farm which we used for tapioca. Tapioca is cassava flex. Don't worry, just keep reading and you will understand.
Our biggest plan now is to harvest the cassava in large quantities so that we can convert is to garri which is a major staple food in Nigeria. An average Nigeria likes Garri with delicious soup like the one on the picture below
For my family, we like taking it once a day and that is usually taken as lunch. It is a heavy food that is why we prefer it as lunch. But it doesn't mean we can't take it at other times. We can consume a custard bucket of Garry which is 4kg in 4 days at most and each bucket costs 5 steem at current price. Sometimes it can be higher and not lesser because nothing returns to normal price after increasing in price no matter what must have induced the price hike.
So it will be great if we produce our own garri by ourselves no matter the stress. I can't wait to do that. Hence, while we are waiting for the first rain to drop to soften the ground before harvesting the cassava in large quantities, we have been going to the farm to harvest a little for the cassava flakes.
So, yesterday, I visited the farm along with my husband, @benton3.
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The ground is very strong thereby making it difficult for us to uproot easily but we managed to do so. But the yield is so encouraging as you can see from the pictures below 👇👇
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But I must confess that @benton3 knows very well how to uproot cassava and it will not break on the ground. He will observe the movement of the cassava as it breaks the ground. He will dig out the cassava before drawing it out. I learned from him. So when he gave me the opportunity to pool out one, wow 😲😲😲, it was amazing but wait, one broke. Hahahah!
When we gathered the much we wanted, we peeled it there in the farm before heading home
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You can watch the videos below 👇👇 to see me peeling the cassava
HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF HOW YOU CAN PRESERVE YOUR CASSAVA STEMS DURING DRY SEASON FOR REPLANTING? HERE IS A TIP THAT HAS WORKED FOR SEVERAL PEOPLE
During planting season, most farmers buy cassava stems before they can plant. While this may be done for several reasons, one of the reasons could be that the farmer couldn't preserve his or her own stems.
If you have a farm and you happen to uproot the cassava during dry season, you can preserve the stems by doing this simple thing below 👇👇👇👇👇
As we were harvesting our cassava, what we were doing was to put back the stem in the group after taking the tubers. This will help keep it alive till the first rain or thereabout. It is a simple practice which can help all farmers. I learned this from @benton3 too.
I took some pictures of my neighbors pepper 🌶️🌶️, and pumpkin seeds as you can see below 👇👇👇
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PREPARING THE CASSAVA FLAKES
After slicing them, I washed them first before soaking them overnight. Then in the morning, I washed them again before they were ready for consumption. You can eat it that way with groundnuts, coconut or palm karnel. Or you can make it into African salad. Some times, you can just use palm oil, onions, salt and crayfish to fry it a little and eat. It is usually very delicious and can serve as food.
Cc: @oppongk
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