Though no such thing as Easter Monday, that's what we've always called this Monday- day after Easter.
It's been a really busy public holiday - recording videos for a training topic on Home-based Farming popularly called Gardening.
The topic itself is not hard for me since I have been gardening for over three years now after over 10 years of working as an Agricultural Journalist in mainstream Nigeria media and also writing for International media on Agriculture & related topics.
I have also run Farm Cafe: an Agribusiness Information Service for 8 years - so sharing knowledge on farming isn't the issue.
The main issues were technical and some Nigerian factors. Imagine recording videos three times on same aspect of the topic only for the videos to be lost because there were issues of phone disharmony with memory card? Ahh! It pained me!
Also my laptop chose this period to have issues I couldn't retrieve or save files. Then issue of epileptic grid electricity supply. Also my solar power backup has stopped powering any appliance/device. So sometimes phone batteries were done.
So you see; to get anything done; we usually face so many challenges, difficulties, hardships to accomplish things. May we not be unfortunate to have the additional problem of people deliberately frustrating or destroying what we do because that also happens.
Some colleagues of mine in agriculture cycle have even said living and working in Nigeria should be included in our CVs as great accomplishment😁.
I don't know about that o but I do know the frustrations are not funny. But when you still do what you can and accomplish those things; you are so glad; hence the smile - I was able to do videos on some aspects of the topic - Benefits of Home-based Farming; Site selection; Garden Layout and Design; Choosing the crops to plant; Soil preparation and amendment; Composting, Sunlight; Weeding; Mulching - they will be available with other topics by other trainers such as Soilless Farming- hydroponics et al, on a YouTube channel. I will share link with anyone who is genuinely interested
This Monday; after the early Morning work in the garden and I wanted to continue doing videos on the other topics - it was as though my body said: 'Dont you dare; I am not asking you to give me very special Easter food since you still have to buy Memory card; a sharper recording device and other things to mitigate the technical challenges but give me good food for all the hard work.'
I thought I was too tired to cook after all the farmwork and other activities but when my body starts protesting like that after being overworked; I must respond. It's just that I have not attained such big Boss status to pay someone to cook what I want the way I want it
So lo and behold this delicious nutrient-packed rice and chicken - no matter how tired; my over-worked body will still be able to cook if no easier option and eat o.
Instead of looking at this my rice and chicken wey I don almost chop finish, contact me to give you link to the training
to learn about Home-basee Farming.
I am adding one of the lecture videos on Home-based farming or Gardening to whet your appetite for farming not for the rice and chicken o😂
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