A BETTER LIFE WITH STEEM: GROW YOUR OWN. OUR CASSAVA PLOT

Today, it's not about our pumpkin garden but cassava farm. In this Part of Africa, most of the major foods are being gotten from cassava; like Garri and flour.

a selfie in our farm

This year has been one of those years that people make money from farm products. For my family, we hardly buy most of the farm produce because we have them. For months now, I've been working on our cassava farm. Most especially to weed it and spray some chemicals on it to prevent weeds.

work in progress

The major thing we use it for is to make garri. Right now, garri is bought at the rate of 200 naira for 3cups. It's quite expensive. For my family, I guess we'd finish 15 cups which goes for a thousand naira just once. So imagine the amount that were saving because we have our own cassava farm.

Apart from the fact that we're saving money, we are also saving ourself the stress of buying something we don't know how it was processed. Sometimes, people do complain of scarcity, but I don't have to lick soup because I've not seen any garri to buy.

Growing my own food has really helped in different ways. Sometimes, our relatives from far do come to the house to also process the cassava and take back. It has also helped them and save them the stress in the middle of this hardship. I can proudly say that we've not bought even a cup of garri this year. So no matter how expensive it gets, we only hear it without getting into it.

And we're also making money from it. Apart from our personal consumption and giving to relatives, we also sell some of it, and then use the money to run some of the family affairs. You can agree with me that life's better.