My Garden Hoe

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The garden hoe is one of the oldest, yet underrated tools of gardening. As soon as mankind learned to work the soil to grow food, they also began to construct early, crude forms of garden hoes to make the way of life , as a little child I could not know where Food come from until one day I slept hungry and the next day was in told to see where am stepping , looking down soil was the only object on ground, the next step to ask how can soil produce food ,the answer was enter in the house check any tool having a handle and the cutting blade bring it forth and drill one hole , get a abean seed put inside cover it continue to water it until 2 months  will understand how a metal gung blade is able to make you grow. These days the word “hoe” is used as an insult in many places, carrying all sorts of negative and belittling connotations and yet without it None can live healthy that is why I appreciate hoe, Through out my life time I have been wounded,made tired , beaten and hated just because of the word hoe but benefit outweigh the negativities . Fast forward to today, about 15 years ago into this homesteading journey, and I feel comfortable using my body and hand tools to get things done.
My hoe as it bites the ground, revenge my wrongs and make me less lust bite my enamies hence I smoothen my temper , though belittled the end point a hoe will pave and excavate our graves and we shall not have any way to hate it  whether you are the most beautiful, handsome, Rich, energetic or whoever.
I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark.  Through gardening with my hoe onto the soils ,we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.
The friendly one day match between the hoe and the soils will vimp at time "T" and spectators will attend in-person ,Soil which a human creature was made to collaborate together with a hoe shall swallow human again with out fear or favour, As a warning lets protect our soils make it yield good benefit for human health do not poison it. the hoe you hated love it, make it do things that make the landscape  happy , make it in use to plant trees , trees can grow into Forests and at the end the fumes release from your cars and industries will be sequestrated for clean Environment, make use your hoe to produce food , your family will not suffer from food insecurities but will remain happy and lovely
                    BY
         Wandera Alexander
         African Food Security and      Climate Army, Global Youth Biodiversity Network-Uganda
         and Young Professional in Agricultural Development-Uganda
        
My Environment my Responsibility
+256773545347 alexanderwander14@gmail.com

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