Hello Hive

Happy new day to us all, it's a beautiful thing to see the light of a new day and I had about 7hours of peaceful sleep even though they were interrupted by a nightmare 😂😂 which is now is a lifestyle that doesn't bother me much. Due to the nature of our work and the number of hours we spend doing one labour or the other in the farm, it becomes so easy to have so much of a deep sleep bothered by nightmares 😂😂🤣.

We started the weekend with the harvest of some vegetables and these are some of the ones we were able to pluck.
Starting with the baobab leaves, it is one vegetables that is very soft and important to us. The vegetables are picked from the leaves of a baobab tree. We have just one of it in this community that I have seen so far. The rest must have withered off, even though alot of people use this vegetables for soup, not many have bothered about planting this tree to replicate it here.

There is so much competition on the harvesting of the leaves of this tree, everyone stays on a lookout and as soon as the tree produces some leaves, we move over to harvest them.
First process is harvesting
Next is sun-drying to preserve it
And the final steps is pounding or grinding to powder that will then be used for making soups

Another vegetables that was harvested yesterday was this okra.
The work load was distributed such that while some went for the harvest of baobab leaves, others were left behind plucking okra.

The okra has produced a lot of seeds ready for harvest which were all plucked yesterday. It is the first harvest that was done on the okra plants.

The okra started producing then with but a few seeds and flowers. Gradually the numbers kept increasing until the entire farm now is already covered with more flowers.

The more flowers they produced, the more of the okra fruits that will be made available for harvest. This mass if the okra farm is flourishing very well.

Whenever harvest begins like this the okra fruits has fo be harvested timely so that they do not become strong and not edible.This is why harvest is occasional. Probably two week apart at the max.

By the next harvest, I will be able to show us the quantity/amount if okra that is gotten here by each harvest.

I was so surprised to see some of the dishes that was prepared using okro by some of my white friends, I thought that okra is only consumed by the black race but some of you over there still eat okra which gives me joy that some can relate with this plant.