Hello Hive

We started the harvest of our guinea corn about 6 days ago, and the work is a tiring and demanding process. For me in particular, I would prefer another form of harvest to this particular guinea corn harvest.

The plant has grown so tall that in order to harvest this, I have to bend down the entire plant to cut the head bearing the guinea corn seeds. You can imagine if we have to repeat the process over and over again.

While the work was ongoing, I was really frustrated and abandoned my dad and his other friends to do it. Since I was in the farm and not willing to remain idle, I had joined a neighbor with their own harvest.
Today we are at it again, and work is about to begin.

It is better that we get the work done once and for all rather than continually shying away from it; besides, Daddy at this time wants us to cut off all the heads first and pile them into a heap before they will use the traditional method of beating it with a stick to remove the guinea seeds from the pallets.

After that process I will still be left with the winnowing as the final harvesting step. This will be a lesser and easier work for us, blowing the sorghum seeds against the wind to remove all the chaff and other dirt.

As you can see, both the white and the red sorghum beside the river produced really well compared to the others planted by the hillside. We have learned so much about the proper timing to plant various crops based on the cycle of rainfall for this year, and hence by the coming year we would do better with our crop productions.

I'm so glad that despite all of these, God has not left us with an empty harvest because I can hear of how much farmers from other places will go to farm and harvest practically nothing.
It is really a very sad situation.
Although the amount of crops we were meant to harvest would have been multiple of these, we are still grateful for what we have.

I think we have more of work to do than talking here for now hence work continues. By the way I haven't found a friend who has volunteered to assist us with harvest, all they have been asking for is an invitation to come and eat some harvested food, so do you remember that you have to labour first before enjoying the proceeds 😉

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