Good day lovely hivers and homesteaders. I hope you all are doing great today. Today I want to share with you one of my homesteading experience, it was a nice experience and I really enjoyed it. For those that are yet to grasp the concept of homesteading, you can go check up this post my 
According to Wikipedia, Homesteading is
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self sufficiency It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale
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I come from a family of homesteaders, infact the homesteading lifestyle is a lifestyle of my village people. Not until my parents migrated to the big urban city, they were homesteaders themselves. They were trained through with and through the proceeds of subsistent agriculture . They planted the foods they ate, the reared the animals whose meat they ate and even built and mended the house they lived in, all by themselves.
My father had told me about how he built his first house many years back in the village, it was a mud house with a thatch roof. He talked about how himself, his brothers and a few friends built the house themselves. He also talks about how they would cut thatches from trees and dig up mud from the ground to patch and maintain the house. It was a common practice and lifestyle of the villagers and my family wasn't left out. My father would even go fishing when he needed to so they could make food from it.
Although they relocated to the city, the homesteading lifestyle which is characterised by self-sufficiency and self-sustenance didn't totally depart from them as they still found themselves cultivating small gardens around our home in which they planted a few crops. They also still did some minor home fixings and repairs themselves whenever we had any of such issue at home
As a family tradition, once every year, the extended family would return to the village (rural settlement) where homesteading is mainly practised. We mostly went to the village because we needed to see our old grandmother. Staying in the village and with my grandmother who is a homesteader, the family would have to adopt same lifestyle.
In our village home, we had different homesteading tools like pliers, hammer , shovel, grease, screws, nails, screw-drivers, scissors, etc. We also had farms and gardens close by where food crops are planted and can be harvested when needed, we also made our own fuel/energy from woods and we cook and do some other preservations with them
The homesteading lifestyle is always a fun one back there, it made the family to bond more and we create wonderful memories.
The most fun part is the farming times. sometimes we would all go to the farm together to harvest cassava or weed the farm or plant crops. Most times we went for cassava harvesting and it was always fun going out together.
Close to our farm was a small stream and sometimes a few of us would go there to relax, wash our bodies and play. Fishes are also caught in the stream too. It is always a pleasant experience and we always look forward to that experience.
After the crop harvesting, all the crops would be shared amongst us according to our abilities and we would carry it home . The little children aren't left out, they're giving some to carry and they're always happy about it. Some of us would carry the firewoods used as fuel, some others would carry cassava etc.
When we had arrived home, we would process the cassava into cassava flour which we ate with our local soup and we would take some cassava flour back with us to the city. We processed the cassava manually. To process the cassava into flour, we would all gather to peel off the outer skin of the cassava, then we would grind them, dry the grinded cassava, then seive it into powder before we would then fry them.
We made fire(energy) from burning the woods and we would fry the powdered cassava in hot pan to produce the cassava flour locally called "garri".
The soup would be made from vegetables gotten from the farms and the fish caught from the stream .
We do all these by ourselves and this is the lifestyle of being self sufficient and self sustained. It's my homesteading experience. It's the lifestyle of my grandparents and also my parents before they moved to the big cities.
This is one of my homesteading experience and trust me , it was a beautiful one.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you found it interesting.
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