Farming and Food

WHAT THE SOURCES SAY The Wikipedia article on Ekori states that over half the population are subsistence farmers, growing cassava, maize, yam and vegetables, and that around 80% of the cassava grown is processed into garri. The same article describes Leboku as a harvest thanksgiving, which places the yam at the centre of the community's year. These figures are recorded here as they were found. Neither their source nor their date is established, and they have not been checked against any local record. WHAT THIS PAGE STILL NEEDS The farming year itself: when land is cleared, when planting happens, when harvest comes, and what marks each stage. How land is held and passed on. Which varieties are grown and what they are called in the language. How garri is made, step by step, and by whom. What is cooked for ordinary days and what is cooked for occasions. What is planted now that was not planted a generation ago, and what has been lost. This is knowledge held by people who farm, and it is exactly the kind that disappears without being noticed.