It's another great time to share with you. Today it has been wonderful visiting my farms with different types of crops. I was very excited to see lots of crops flourishing well. One of the major thing is to diversify crops so that if one crop fails you have the second crop to replace the lost. The various crops that I grow are cassava, plantain, cocoyam, maize, egg plants, pepper, tomatoes and yam.
One advantage of growing different types of crops is getting different kinds of foodstuff to feed your family. We can't depend on only one crop and be ok, we need to grow many crops so that we can get a balance diet. For instance, beans is noted to give a lot of protein to our bodies system. Egg plants, tomatoes and many other vegetables gives us a lot of vitamins that protect our bodies against diseases. Most of these crops provides minerals and carbohydrates that helps our bodies with energy.
some egg plants grown in my home garden
Having more different kinds of food provides food security. Currently as I draw your attention, many communities are starving due to the hardship economy. Many people don't get 3 square meal a day. They just depend on few available food to survive. Some people don't food at all. Many people have become dependent or burden on certain well to do people. This in effect has raised high living standards among some societies in the Country. I believe having varieties of foodstuff from home gardens is good way to curb this situation. Upon doing my analysis, about 70% of our resources go into food. We need to eat 3 times a day; morning, afternoon and evening.
Growing some plantain in my home garden
I don't think if one has many vegetables like cocoyam leaves, onions, egg plants, tomatoes, cabbage and carrots grown in his home garden that he would still money to buy the same vegetables from market. Since he has these vegetables grown at his garden, he can get some at any time he wants. He would rather reserve the money for other things. I thinks is about time we plan saving moneys on some of these things that we can get it very cheap when we grow some in our home gardens. The cost on some of these vegetables in market are sometimes very high and hence we need to reduce some of the cost of spending by growing them ourselves. Maybe some of these vegetables in the market are sometimes poisoned with a lot of chemicals.
cocoyam growing in good health in my home garden
cassava in the midst of egg plants as done in mixed cropping
Currently maize is on the top in terms of it usage. Maizes can be turned into different use case. For instance maize is used for our local drink such as "pito," which is very popular in our community. The grains can be used for preparing different kinds of food like banku, tuozaafi, "akple", porridge, tom brown, "small & capital letters, "adibi," and "nkyekyerewa." Aside this, we use maize to feed poultry birds.
Yellow corn a farmer harvested from farm
The surplus from the produce can be stored and food would never be lack in our homes. For many people who use some of these crops as business sometimes sell and get money from it. I believe if we keep a keen interest of managing our crops in the garden we can get a lot things that we need to depend on in our home garden.