GARDENING REDUCES FRUSTRATION OF NAIRA, FOOD SCARCITY

I couldn't help laughing at myself - I heard a hawker chanting 'buy peppers, buy tomatoes' while I was rounding up today's morning work in the garden.

I needed some peppers and tomatoes for stew to go with white rice.

I was already making the move to go call the hawker when I remembered I had no physical cash. This set of hawkers don't accept transfers for payment.

Besides, the quantity I needed was small and wasn't worth making a transfer  with the possibility of not going through due to network issues - even if the hawker  would accept electronic payment.

Feeling somewhat frustrated, I went to get the seeds of snake tomatoes I had and planted some more. I dont have seeds of round tomatoes.

Then I started laughing at myself  - planting snake tomatoes today which would take at  the very least eight weeks or at most 16weeks  to harvest won't solve my need for stew today.

But  then I thought ''do you know what problems may be at that time?' Uuuummm... while we keep hoping  for the best, it is better to live prepared... today, the problem is scarcity of legal tender to buy food, tomorrow  who knows? 

While we do hope there wont be serious scarcity of food in our country, let's learn to read handwriting on the wall.

Not everyone can or should grow food but if many who are able, do so, then there may not really be any serious  scarcity - remember that scarcity occurs when demand is far higher than supply.

Anyway I still had  a sumptuous  meal by combining some green chilli peppers in the garden (no ripe tomatoes in ny garden and unripe tomatoes don't taste nice but unripe chilli peppers grown through organic means taste very great )  with some items at home  - simple, not sophisticated and it was still a very delicious  sumptuous  balanced diet meal - it contains carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals and I drank water😁

Imagine waiting for transfer to go through to buy meat when hungry😃or looking for POS Agent with cash and reasonable charges. No be everyday we go chop meat before food go balance  - hey!Come to think of It, if you can rear livestock as well, that can meet some of your household's meat demand  -mini-gardener thinking deep.

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