Sad News: Had A Little Hitch On My Plantain Farm

Hello everyone in the wonderful homesteading community. I hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the weather wherever you are. Over here, it has been raining every morning for the past three days. The rain yesterday was so heavy that I decided to check on my crops today.

It is so nice to be part of the homesteading community because I learn new things everyday. Just recently, a member of this community shared an article about peanut harvest and the drying process, and I must say I really learned a lot from that article.

Homesteading lifestyle is not an easy one, and neither is it so difficult. The beginning might be hard, but soon enough you’ll get a hang of it. Homesteading lifestyle is a life of self-sufficiency and it has lots of benefits. Besides the big smile on your face when you harvest or do things by yourself, you’re also saving yourself some money.

As I said earlier, a homesteading lifestyle isn’t so simple; it requires hard work, determination and consistency. You can’t expect to get good results without these keys (hard work, determination, and consistency). For example, growing a maize plantation. Non-homesteader might think all you have to do is just to plant and wait for it to grow and then harvest. Nope! That is absolutely wrong! Even before planting, you have a lot of work to do, and after planting, the work doesn’t stop until you harvest.

How would you feel after putting in lots of effort, time, and even money and someone comes to steal it? Very sad and at the same time, very annoying.

After the heavy rainfall yesterday morning, I thought of the crops in my farm. The rain was so heavy that I knew it’d destroy some of my plants. I wanted to go to the farm after the rain stopped, but I had things to do.

The last time I harvested my plantains, I got about 6 bunches (very big ones). I was very happy. I grow plantains not for commercial purposes, but for family consumption. I gave some to my cousins (because they also work with me on the farm) and I took the remaining. I really enjoyed the plantains. I fried plantains at least once a day, till they finished. I can proudly say I ate more than 50 percent of the plantains I harvested.

The last time I checked on my plantain farm, there were about 6 bunches that were ready to be harvested. But I decided to leave it for some time because some of them were not due for harvest.

This morning after checking on my maize (they're all in good condition, the heavy rainfall didn't affect them), I decided to check on my plantains and I was very surprised with what I saw. Some of the plantains (about 2) had fallen due to the heavy rainfall, but that didn't even surprise me because I expected that, but what shocked me was that all the plantains that I wanted to harvest were gone. Yes! Someone stole them.

I knew my cousins wouldn't harvest them without my consent, but I called them to confirm, and they said they didn't. I was sad and very angry. 6 bunches (if not more) are all gone!

I know the country is hard and people are starving, but is this the best approach? Stealing other's things, and not considering my efforts and sweat.

I heard I wasn't the only one that they stole from. They even robbed some houses and stole their belongings. They caught one of them, I hope they get the punishment they deserve.

Thanks for reading.