Hello Hive

Did I just hear that winnowing is a woman's work? My daddy often says that anything that has to do with blowing grains against the wind is a woman's work; the men are left with the hard work of beating the grains out while we clean and take care of them.

For today's tasks, we were unable to clean the grains in the farm and have to bring them home to do that. While cutting the sorghum and beating them out, it got so late that we couldn't do the winnowing on the farm, and as soon as the daylight broke, I was already at the task of cleaning our guinea seeds.

The work has been a very long, tasky, and demanding one, and almost everyone on the farm here is busy with their own work too. Everyone is working so hard to harvest their grains before the festivities begin fully. Rice and guinea corn are what we have left, and we are getting to the end of the guinea corn harvest as well.

Once the cleaning is done, we are going to bag and store the grains.
Sorghum can equally be affected by weevils, but I'm not sure if we would be using these same Boom chemicals for storing these grains.

The chemical is working fine for both corn and bean grains, and a little inquiry from the chemical store will be helpful for us to know if we can use this for the sorghum as well. All the grains need to be properly stored against insects if we want to enjoy our grains for a good while.

Cleaning may likely not take much of my time today, but it's good that I'm at home rather than the agitated feelings we get when we are working on the farm and the time is against us. It's always challenging to get back home late at night when there is much to take care of for today.

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