The fruits of our hard work on the farm are now on display. It’s really nice to see that planting isn’t easy, but all the effort pays off in the end.

The question is: What would you do if you were not allowed to garden anymore?

If I could no longer garden, maybe I would focus on selling products from our farm as well as from other farmers. I could open a stall and become a wholesaler, just like what my brother did. I would buy and sell vegetables, fruits and other products from different planters. Even if I can’t garden anymore, I would still stay connected to farm life in my own way. Farming is my life and this is where I learned everything how to plant, how to care for the crops and how to survive. I grew up poor and farming has always been our family’s livelihood. Even when there is rain, storms, or when our crops get damaged, we never give up. We keep fighting despite all the failures we have faced from the time I was young until now. Our work is hard, but it makes us happy, and I always say that I am proud to be a farmer.

This is my brother Jemson’s second source of income. He has a stall, and he already has many regular customers. The display may look small, but everything he sells comes directly from the farm and goes straight to the buyers. This is exactly what I want to do if one day I can no longer garden. I already know the strategies in selling farm products, so this is the plan I have in mind. All my relatives are farmers, so I would buy whatever they harvest and sell it wholesale. That way, the products are sold quickly, the income comes faster and there’s no cheating, no overpricing just fair and honest business where no one loses. That’s my plan because I know how difficult life is for us farmers.

He actually actually sells a lot more inside his stall,fruits, vegetables and different farm products. And in just one day, he earns no less than 15k, even though his stall is only inside a subdivision. That’s why I get so inspired whenever I see many people buying from him.

One important thing I learned from this kind of business is that your prices should be lower than others, but still enough for you to earn. That’s my brother’s technique, and it’s the reason he earns so well every day. He also keeps his stock full so he never runs out. His stall is simple, but the variety of his products attracts many customers

That’s why I am never ashamed to say that I am a farmer. If you work hard and stay patient, you will always have something to harvest. There are many challenges, and we farmers know it’s like taking a gamble when the prices are high, the income is good; but when prices drop, sometimes we can’t even recover our expenses. That’s the reality.

Back then, we didn’t have a truck to transport our harvests. We used a carabao or a cow to carry our products. Now we have an elf and a multicab that we can use, and it reminds me that life does not stay hard forever. What’s important is to keep trusting, keep going, and continue doing good.

Just like our peanuts when the plants had no pods yet, they looked so healthy and beautiful. But when we harvested them the other day, many were damaged because of the typhoon and some were even eaten by rats and worms. That’s just one example of what happens in planting. It’s never perfect there will always be problems that affect the crops, and that’s already part of a farmer’s life.

In case I won’t be able to garden anymore, I still have a good plan to continue earning and making a living. All I can say is I’m grateful for the daily blessings that come from our harvests.

Thank you for stopping by my post, all the pictures are mine. God bless us all, happy gardeners.