The Ripples in the Pond of Life
As kids, our playground extended to the places where our parents had their farms. They practised rotational farming. Our farmland extended tens of kilometres around my home. Every year, the extended family moved to a new site for agriculture; it took us many more years before we returned to the same site, at which time it had grown into a thicket. This farming method enabled the ground to regain its nutrients to support the crops. Okahia, Rugbueba, and other places were dry land, whereas Ohia Iru (Ohiru) and part of Emerica were marshy with streams during the rainy season. The Streams had water all year round but sometime in the middle of the rainy season, the water from the stream would overrun the farms and that marked the end of that farming cycle. The special thing about farming in the streams was that it was done every year; after the waters receded, the ground would be fertile for farming and so my parents and others returned; giving us another great opportunity to play with wate...