At heart, me and soil have a legitimate affair. There is something about growing something that gets me stirred from within. Like I would be doing two things I love most, farming and feeding people.
The idea came from an unplanned visit to where a cousin of mine works as a landscaper.
A stretch of grass welcomes you home.
On your right, weeks old maize plants and blocks of apartments at a distance.
Zoom in :)
The oldie keeping the gold... I so love the name :)
Zoom in :D Had to do it again. Won't do it again:p
When you ignore the ^Restricted Access^ sign on the door :)
Columns of edible white 'buttons' sitting in the dark. I don't even know how my tablet captured this.
That was the last of the mushrooms hidden from the sun.
A shot of her (the house is a she because it has a womb of mushrooms:) wall running to the back up close.
Her back! The black polythene sheets peaking at the roof cover her entire walls. They are meant to keep the sun out at all costs.
Wheat straw is turned manure and mixed with sunflower and...
Cooked black cotton soil to be then planted them in the bags you've seen them in. The process of 'cooking' the soil enables one to kill anything harmful to the mushrooms without the need of spraying chemicals.
The thing is farming will always be our backbone and the need for good food is on the rise on this part of the world. We are in the process of diversifying our menus with inter tribal cuisines and global ones.
Growing up, we ate only what we used to identify as traditional dishes. I was brought up by Polenta (ours being exclusively boiled and made from maize meal) and a variety of greens as the stew, beef when it was available which was rare, chicken meant a visitor came or it's a holiday, rice mixed with potatoes, githeri (which is simply a mixture of boiled maize and beans/peas) and arrow roots, sweet potatoes and sometimes bread and tea/sour porridge as breakfast.
I ate pasta for the first time at 15 and pizza at 28 or something. Mushrooms came in at 30 and won me over. Now, I am thinking of growing them :)
Take in the majesticness of these trees as you take in what I have shared :D What do you think? Should I chase it? The dream of being a farmer I mean...
Longest post ever! Also this was so easy to do on Steempeak! Where the hell have I been? Probably in the dark like always. Like the growing mushrooms. Probably that's why this could work. A soul that loves the dark growing food in the dark!
Will Update How It Goes Soon.
All photos are mine. Taken with a Samsung Tab.
BQ.
