Primitive Technology: Planting Cassava and Yams

Grass hut
Bed shed
Barrel tiled shed
Tiled hut
Wattle and daub hut
After being abandoned in favor of the other huts, the roof deteriorated and the walls damaged by rain
A tree fell and destroyed the sweet potato patch
Setting fire to tree
Scrapping away charred wood
Chopping the rest with stone tools
Using a log as a type 2 lever to shift tree
logs as slide rails
Wood for fence pickets
Hammering pickets
Weaving together with vine
Digging mounds
32 mounds
My stone hut, far down stream, 10 years earlier damaged by a tree in a cyclone
The ruins of the hut today
Wild yams grow over it now
Aerial bulbs make good planting material
Wild cassava, escaped from early farms in the area
The stems are used for planting material
It produces large, edible tubers high in energy
Protected by law, scrub turkeys have lost their fear of humans.
It will only leave if chased away
25 cm lengths of cassava stems
Planted horizontally in mounds
Yam bulbs were also planted along the fence so that the vine could climb on it
Storm rain brings nitrogen
In less than a week the cassava sprouts
It will require little attention after planting and will be harvested at the end of the year

Primitive Technology: Planting Cassava and Yams

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