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Is it not enough that we ought to know about the health benefits of most of the crops we eat so as to know which crops we are to grow in the farms more than the others? A lot of people are eating large chunks of food without bothering if it adds any value to their bodies or not. Been healthy and carrying a healthy body starts with the things we eat.
Sometimes we don't have to spend too much in order to extract the right quantity of the minerals and proteins our bodies need. Eating the right quantity of the right staples is just the important key factor to watch out for.
While my mom was yet alive, she had often preferred that we eat sorghum meal instead of corn, but because of the black color of the turning food it gives, we have never liked it as children. Mum knows better than guinea corn contains more proteins than the corn and a good source of fiber that aids bowel movement.
Guinea corn is richer in mineral nutrients, especially iron, which is essential in blood hemoglobin formation.
Animal proteins are very expensive at this time, and if you desire to eat some healthy meals, we can consider eating staples that are rich in proteins such as these. Soya beans are another staple rich in protein too. We can utilize these special stable crops, making them into different forms of meals to provide us with the amount of needed protein.
I was able to harvest some corn from our farms this year, which is resting in our stores. I really wish that we could get some amount of guinea corn to complement that as well.
This year has taught us a lot of lessons about the importance of proper timing for planting our crops rather than this waiting and keeping hope for getting some quality harvest when there is no rain or due to sustain our crops to maturity. If a crop needs extra time to grow like this one, we can plant it earlier than it is meant to be planted, and also, being a cereal, planting it earlier doesn't affect its lifecycle and growth. Excess rain doesn't affect guinea corn's growth. Hence, if we had planted this earlier, there would have been better chances for a better harvest.
We passed by the farm yesterday to chase out some goats. It is already annoying that these goats are up our bean crops. Completing eating a huge chunk of our ripe beans that was ready for harvest. These animals are still going about from farm to farm, eating people's crops.
We are yet to figure out their owner, but at the moment you throw kill any of this, the owner might show up to cause trouble. The only thing we can do now is to keep our farms safe until harvest.
I can't wait to teach my friend here some of the delicious local dishes we make from the foods we harvest from our farms.
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This was really insightful, thanks for sharing 😊.
I went to an art exhibition of paintings by Tim Fowler. One of them was sorghum, which his ancestors brought from West Africa to the Caribbean. Sorghum was part of the "pantry" of foods and beneficial plants. It was interesting to learn more about it in your post.
I thought it was a beautiful picture :) You've inspired me to follow up my explorations!
Wow, it's such a lovely picture.
I will definitely save this.
Actually I live in a part of West Africa too, I'm glad to know that they once found this helpful as food.