THREE-YEAR OLD ALMOND TREE PLANTED BY BIRD STARTS FRUITING

Fruits have actually started emerging on the almond tree growing in a drum in my mini-garden. 

This almond tree whose seed was initially sown by a visiting bird in one of the sacks of soil in the premises is in its third year.

The seed is no doubt pure-bred - only God knows where the bird picked the seed from. I think it is likely from a forest or any place where human beings have not tampered much or at all with the growing vegetation.

Ever since it was sown and started sprouting in the sack in Year 2021 till December 2023 when I got it transplanted into a large drum till date, it's growth has been very vigorous. 

The leaves are mostly big and flabby, I even cut off so many of the leaves to use as food wrappers and boil as tea. I also use the leaves in manuring other plants in the mini-garden.

In fact, I planted other crops - turmeric, ginger and yam in the same drum with the almond tree yet it has continued it's vigorous growth. 

I cannot say the same of other crops- the mango tree I transplanted into another drum same December, last year  has been having difficulty in its growth. So I cut off the upper parwhich was drooping in hope the mango tree would grow from the base - I bought the mango from which I extracted the seed from our local foodstuffs sellers- though likely organic grown, the mango  at some point in its growth or lineage may have been tampered with by humans.

Hence, I am having a yearning - a very strong desire to go on forest-combing in search of pure seeds  or seed-bearing fruits and other plant parts that can be propagated. 

Let me whisper something into your ears - currently in our country, most terrorists or extremists with criminal intent live in forests  - is there any wonder they have so much physical strength and do some physically -daring  things? 

You see the more the things that people eat and drink are tampered with instead of naturally growing in pure soils, the less potent they become. 

So generally  the consumers will not be as constantly strong  physically as those who eat items that are grown, processed or preserved naturally. The former will constantly need health-boosting drugs or supplements to stay strong - this eventually wears out the body's inbuilt natural immunity by the Creator.

Any wonder a virus challenged the potency of human-health systems few years ago?  The natural immunity of most people in modern societies  are low mainly because of what they eat and drink which are presumed to be healthy.

Reason I encourage as many people as can, to grow food, is because we live in a world where there are all sorts of anomalies.

These things I am stating here no doubt have been discovered by lots of people - some people use the knowledge for good trying the best they can to produce healthy foods as naturally as possible.

Some people inspite of the knowledge still use chemicals or other toxic means of producing food because they think they have no other choice to get crops to grow so they can make profit.

 There are also extremists who use the knowledge to perpetrate evils - the way to defeat those they regard as enemies is to constantly weaken them, shorten their lives or make them less productive - perhaps one of the means is  subtly introducing health hazards to people's food and drink within their control. How can they be captured or stopped? 

While contemplating that, we can at least come to the point that if people produce, process or preserve food and drinks in such ways that make them  damaging to health, it would become very unprofitable business.

Food in whatever form should not just be to satisfy hunger/thirst or for pleasure/enjoyment, it should keep the body in good health, not damage it. 

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