Hi everyone on Steem For Ladies. It's your lovely friend again. I hope you are doing great and enjoying your weekend? Thank you, for all the supports I've receive from you, from up voting to your lovely and encouraging comments, I truly appreciate.
Ordinarily, when I saw this contest and the title of it: "Choices! What will it be?" I had no interest but on reading again, I saw mushrooms, it attracted my attention to read through the post.
I was attracted to it because I am a mushrooms farmer.
Did you mean mushrooms farmer?
Yes! In Nigeria? Yes!
My Knowledge about Mushrooms
While growing up as a little girl in my village, we usually pick mushrooms on the soil in our farms or on dead trees around our neighbourhood or farms.
So I left the village to live in the city, the memories of mushrooms had gone, I didn't even grave for it or even thought of asking from my mother.
In the year 2020, after the covid 19, I had a discussion with my sister in-law (she's married to my husband's brother) that I needed to learn a skill to develop myself since "white collar job was not forth coming. She told me to learn mushrooms farming, I was like, mushrooms farming? She said yes, "it's a very lucrative business and it's medicinal too". At first, I had no interest.
Fast forward to 2021 January 1, she and her family came visiting us and the discussion of learning a skill came up again and she reminded me of the last discussion about mushrooms farming. She then told me the benefits of mushrooms and reasons why people will buy from me and so on, she advised that I research on it and I did.
That January, while I was 7months and 2weeks pregnant I decided to go learn mushrooms farming. While at the training center, I delivered my baby, I continued the training after 2months. It took me 6 months to be fully trained on mushrooms farming.
What are Mushrooms?
Mushrooms are neither plant (veggies) or animals (meat), they are edible fungus with so much nutritional values.
"Mushrooms contain protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Among the antioxidant agents in mushrooms are; selenium, vitamin C, choline."Source
According to my trainer, mushrooms works in regulating blood pressure and that it also has a way of curing or reducing the spread of cancer. The consumption of mushrooms moisturizes and rejuvenates the skin and cells, then that it also works well for the heart and so much more.
There are different types of Mushrooms but I know of;
- Ganodema
- Button
- oyster
I produce the white oyster mushrooms.
sample of my practical during the training, picture was taken using my phone.
Are you planning to learn a skill or something different maybe the coming year? Why not learn mushrooms farming. It's lucrative but my first intention wasn't about the money, but about the fact that it can cure certain ailments. I want[ed] to be a solution to people's problem, you can also take a skill that will be of a great solution even when you earn from it. I'm looking forward to bringing the steps involved in mushrooms production here.
@patjewell, thank you for giving me this opportunity.
I invite @realitytrend and @ememnkenta69 to also make their choices here.