Good evening, Steemians!

Yesterday, I noticed that our main cassava plant was leaning about 45° to one side. Right about the same time that hurricane Harvey was going on in Texas, we got some pretty rough winds and flooding in our area (nothing compared to what they got hammered with). The winds were so high that they actually knocked over my chaya, (a.k.a. tree spinach) and this big cassava plant that I had. I decided that if I didn't harvest it I would likely lose the roots to rot.

Me posing with the big cassava plant

Cassava is a root vegetable/tuber similar to the potato. It's grown all throughout the tropics as a major staple. Tapioca comes from cassava, as well as many other dishes.

Cassava root (yuca) that we harvested!

Cutting/peeling yuca root to be cooked

I also knew that I could replant the cuttings from the old cassava plant, So that's exactly what I did

So not only are we having a dinner for free tonight, but I was also able to make four new plants from the old one

If that's not called being resourceful, I don't know what is

Before cooking

Make sure to check back in an hour or so to see the meal that we prepared from the cassava I harvested!

And as always, thanks for stopping by!