Hello Hive

Happy start of the week to everyone or us. I hope that we will have a very fruitful and productive week. Being a homesteader or a farmer is such an interesting adventure, even though not everybody likes the hard labor, but you can hardly point out a single person who doesn't eat or hates food.

Another interesting thing about agriculture and homesteading is that we get to eat different varieties of food as God has created so many species for us to feed on. In addition to this, different countries and climates support the growth of different types of food substances. The advent of technology made it very easy for us to access food and eat the food grown in another region; hence, we don't get stuck with eating a similar species of food at all times.

There are only two major weather seasons in this part of the world, the dry and the rainy seasons. Making it distinct to know when to grow crops and when not to. The weather forecast for this year is out, and being a passionate farmer, we have gotten a WhatsApp screenshot here of the summary of how the weather for this year will be like.

According to the forecast, the rains for this state will begin in mid-April and stop in the month of November with occasional dry spells in between. We have to work around this timing to grow whatever food crops we want to grow this year. Planning for the best time to plant each crop will be placed in consideration so that the dry spells won't affect our planted crops this year.

Even though we are in the dry season and a lot of farming activities have stopped, we still have a few of us who took the risk to grow some crops during this dry season. Potential farmers willing to take so many risks have planted a good number of crops by the riverside.

It is so surprising to see how this corn is doing well in this type of extremely dry weather situation. There is a standby generator that has constantly been used to pump water from the river to water the corn. I wonder how much has been spent on purchasing the fuel needed to grow these and keep them alive and healthy. And since they will equally be sold out, will there be much profit in this kind of irrigation farming business?

We were at the farm yesterday evening to lay off potential goats and other animals that often come to feed on these crops. Since it is the weekend, it often makes use of such opportunities to invade farms, and we are not willing to have these corn invaded and destroyed yet. It's been two months since they were planted, and in the next two months we are expecting and anticipating some harvest here. Having some fresh corn to eat during the dry season is usually a delight, and this is the only potential way to grow corn during the dry seasons like this.