Hello Hive

A happy weekend to all of my Hive friends and community members and yessss it is the penultimate month of the year and we are happy to witness the first day of this month. One thing about this mont is that a lot of preparations for Christmas takes place and I can bet with you that serious schools have started teaching the children's Christmas rhymes.

Another thing we often rush to do is the harvest of our farmed crops for the year. Harvest must be completed before Christmas as we often do not let our crops stay unharvested during the festive season, besides the ground gets harder making harvest of root crops like this groundnut.

Such was the difficult conditions we faced today harvesting our peanuts. The ground has gotten drastically dried from just two weeks of no rainfall. We arrived the farm very much earlier that I couldn't even afford to write my daily blog.
The work load was quite much, this Groundnuts moved from not being ready for harvest to what they are now in just two weeks.

Since the ground is dried and holding tight to the nuts, it's difficult to pull the groundnuts plants from the ground besides the nuts keep cutting even when we pull up the plant making it compulsory for us to use hoes and our fingers to dig up the nuts stuck in the ground.

Quite a number of us made it to the farm and we spent some good time uprooting the plant but we were unable go pluck the Groundnuts from the plants before the temperatures from the sun got so hot and we have to run for shelter. Groundnut harvest takes a lot of time, this is the reason why we often take a lot of hands to farm for groundnut harvesting.

The Sun has scourged my face, that I can barely open my eyes.

The Groundnuts this year didn't bear as much nuts as the ones we harvested last year. The rains affected a whole lot and I can recall how farms didn't even give us any food this year, further processing of the nuts will commence from here once we are able to conclude with the harvest.

It's weekend and we are up early enough to return to farm and continue with yesterday work to see how far we can go. Right after groundnut harvest we would still be having rice sorghum and others to harvest and I hope that all of these will give us some good food to eat.

This Groundnuts has been able to produce something against the weather conditions for this year t