Fresh Daily Newsletter 15th -22nd February ; Valentines, Vegetables and Moral Victories

 

Good Day To You,

 

The new week is upon us and we are grateful to the Creator the last week and all its accompanying blessings. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and we send out our love to all of customers and the whole community. They say food is love made edible; we have a whole truckload of love to distribute this week.

 

The harvest from our farm has come in all colours, textures and shapes. We are officially in the hottest part of the year and the weather is really affecting our greens and salad production. Even with all our best efforts at irrigation, some of our crops are feeling the adverse effects of the heat. Our spinach has been the most badly affected as most of their leaves are showing signs of heat stress. We would be giving them out as freebies this week as we aim to sell only the freshest and highest quality vegetables but at the same time minimize waste. What these veggies lack in aesthetics they more than make up for it in taste.

 

 

 

The economic depression we are currently going through in Nigeria has altered every facet of our lives both positively and negatively. In the midst of all the uncertainties and spiraling crime rate across the country, I choose to focus on the positives not because we want to bury our heads in the sands but because we want to nurture the soil and shape the world to more humane, compassionate and inspiring world. I say this because a lot of people have asked how profitable is farming really? I always tell them simply- farming done right is extremely rewarding; financially, emotionally and socially. Growing food for your community is a moral victory over all the negatives that pervade our day to day experiences and we the Fresh Daily team would not rather be doing anything else. Thanks for choosing us and have a love filled week

 

 

 

Kabir Onimisi ADEMOH

 

NEWSLETTER 26th July – 2nd August

Good Day To You,

This week I have had various enquiries about if we are planning to OR currently  rearing any chickens, are they organic?  Local or free range?  What my views are on imported frozen chicken and so much more.

Firstly, I find imported frozen chicken  distasteful. Its insulting  and demoralizing to think that in Abuja alone we have over 3 million birds of various varieties growing under varied methods for a population of just over a million people.  That is in simplistic terms,  2 chickens to one individual every week. The capacity to produce  birds locally surely should make importation of birds a silly silly idea.  We actually  don’t need the government  to place a ban on imported chickens for us, we just all need to say no to chicken pumped full of preservatives transported from thousands of miles away to but this people out of business.  Common sense and common  will of a people would always defeat an imposed version of reality.  If you are not worried about the economic and health reasons, you should be worried about the taste.  It takes a lot more effort and spicematics to get your preserved frozen chicken tasting like a bird that has been sourced locally without any preservatives.  Why?  Because the preservatives keep the birds inert. Immune to intrusion of any foreign particles be it pathogens or your lovely spices. It’s a victory for physical sciences but a defeat for the chefs, foodies and culinary  experts.  Save your spices,  save your health and buy your chickens from a poultry you trust. Trust been the keyword.

We at Fresh Daily currently  stock just about enough birds for the consumption of my family and a few immediate neighbors. My birds are not organically sourced but are reared organically and semi-intensive. We feed them corn grown on our farm and never use growth hormones or antibiotics. For that reason it has been hard to stick large quantities  to include with our weekly vegetable boxes. I have had alot of suggestions from qmonhst our community  of running a CSA for the birds. This is where you buy shares on the poultry pen,  that goes towards feeding and rearing the chicks and you get your dividends paid off as chickens supplied to your home over a two month period. For example paying #12,000 would yield a return of 10 birds supplied over a 2 month period. We are still working on the plan and would see how viable it would be.  It would eventually all boil down to what the collective  community of Fresh Daily users decide.

On the vegetable  front,  it keeps looking greener and redder.  The Veronica  Tomatoes have ursurped the Eva Tomatoes.  Eva got to the end of her harvest cycle so you would notice a fuller, rounder and redder version  of tomatos in your vegetable boxes for the next month.  Our lettuce has been a resounding success. The mixed pack lettuce has yielded so much colour to our growing tunnel,  that Taiwo my head Agronomist and I have become  full time selfie-ists.

I hope you all enjoy your vegetables and the rain this week. Keep thinking and living green.  We at Fresh Daily wish you health, happiness  and blessings.  Thank you for choosing us.

Best Regards

Kabir Onimisi ADEMOH