Hello Hive

Welcome to a another bright and beautiful day. I just woke really late today having spent worked through the evening yesterday at the farm. We left the farm when the sun was already setting and with that much stress I struggled with sleep through the night.

Thankfully my body is still able to carry me through without breaking down just yet. We have to watch out for our health while we work. I decided to stay back in bed today when my dad and siblings have already gone back to farm already.

Today's farm work is majorly for the stringer men and there is much likelihood that I won't be at the farm today. They would be applying more chemicals to our other rice fields as we gradually commence planting of rice grains on the fields that are not yet submerged in water.

You must have seen pictures of this flourishing vegetative potatoes already. Just Yesterday we began to cut off some of these vegetative part to sell/distribute to our farm neighbors. It may surprise you to see that the vegetative parts of potatoes can be sold too.

Alot of people around this area find it very difficult to grow this vegetative parts of potatoes from the scratch.

This vegetative potatoes is the means used to propagate and grow potatoes. It is this vegetative stems that we cut into small pieces and dip in the ground to grow and produce the tubers.

But before we can get this vegetative part we have to first plant some very tiny tubers that will protude and expand to give us these. The process of germinating potatoes from those tiny tubers is often a long and herculean task.

In order to avoid such myself and family often save a tiny portion of the vegetative parts yearly and after each harvest. We keep them alive and fresh till the begining of another farming year.

From the little preserved vegetative portion we then grow and enlarge them into something other farmers can benefit from.

As many people as are willing will be coming here to get their seedlings from these to go and replant in their own farms.

Aside from growing tuber potatoes from these I found come to realize some important use of these vegetative potatoes. A farm neighbor that came to get a portion of these yesterday confirmed that the leaves can be used for cooking soup 🍲. I was so surprised to hear these for the very first time.

The other day we tested these with rabbits ans saw how much they enjoyed it, I never knew that there are people who used these leaves directly for soup.

In farming we are learning new things everyday, not just planting alone but how that alot of people utilizes different harvested products for different purpose. I wonder what nutrients people will benefit from eating potato leaves and how the meal prepared from these will taste like but in the mean time the rabbit are enjoying this vegetative meal and growing healthy and strong.