Chapter 6: Livestock

The next morning, he did not accompany the hunting group to join me and the Elder Healer in gathering herbs on the mountain. We found a huge field with low-growing grass and checked if the soil was suitable for planting vegetables.

The soil was quite rocky in some parts, but we saw a spot where the soil was soft with fewer rocks. We plowed it using tree branches. It was extremely exhausting because we did not have the right equipment, so my father took over and finished plowing in just an hour. I was amazed and speechless at how efficiently he was doing the job alone. We also looked for vegetable seedlings that we could transplant in the lot we found, then we gathered and replanted cabbages, lettuce, carrots, potatoes, yams, and corn in other areas of the mountain.

I taught my father how to take care of the plants, so he held a meeting with the others to delegate a team that would manage the planting in the vegetable garden we made on the mountain. He also built a fence around the lo