Hello everyone here in homesteading community, it's been awhile I drop a post in here due to one reason or the other, am so happy to have the opportunity to continue dropping my entry again. If I'm not mistaken, I think this will be my first post in the community this year, hopefully more wonderful entries from me to you all are on the way.
I'll be sharing a post on the harvest I made on my cassava farm this week. Even though it's not easy at all but I just have to do it. Like the saying "no food for lazy man." one just needs to keep trying, one day everything will be fine.
It has been a while I planted this cassava but it feels like it's just yesterday. Obviously the time of harvest is a very good and happy time for every farmer. Because this time you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
After many weeks and months of hard labour on the farm.
It's not the first time of me harvesting here and sharing it in the community.
The harvest this time was not much, I didn't harvest all because some of the cassava plant have not yet reached the harvesting stage.
Meanwhile I had to also harvest the ones I harvested on time because rodents are feeding on it. So to avoid them eating all what have laboured for, I need to quickly enter the farm and harvest.
After uprooting everything, and getting them cut away from the stem, I also get it peeled, sliced, cleaned, dried amd blended into cassava flour. Which in turn will be used to make a very popular yoruba (a tribe in Nigeria) food.
Just like I said earlier that it's used to make a very popular food among the Yoruba people, Thereafter you can enjoy it with your favorite kind of soup, but I think the most talked about food that goes well with it is "ewedu and gbegiri". ( the ewedu some call it spinach and while the gbegiri is made with beans). Another food by the Yoruba's.
Note: All images are mine, they were taken with my phone camera.