As many of you know I live on a Mango Farm in Limpopo, South Africa - and normally by this time of the year we would start getting ready for the annual Mango harvest. However this year has been exceptionally dry, and with little to no rain y mango trees have not even started blooming yet, and I am left to wonder if we will even have a mango harvest this year.
The past two weeks we have tried to help keep the trees alive by draining whatever water we could from the reservoirs and watering over 300 trees by hand with 20 liter containers, and I do not need to tell you that this is not the easiest job for only two people, especially seeing that the mango trees are stretched out over 23 hectares of land.
But the Mango harvest is not the only thing that is threatened by the drought, the drought is also taking its toll on the livestock, with minimal food around the goats are rendered weak and sickness starts spreading more easily, we have been trying to source and/or buy in food as far as possible up until this point, but it is a costly affair and it is becoming more and more difficult - at this point the best we can do is pray for some rain!
