I remember as a young person growing up in Ibara Housing, Abeokuta & later working as a Continuity announcer/news reader at the then most exciting TV station in the country – OGTV, there was a programm called “Oba L’agbe” (Farmer is King)

I remember because it aired on Friday evenings just before the world news at 8.30pm – and I was almost always on duty.

For some inexplicable reason, the weird theme song has recently been on loop play in my head and I cannot seem to get it out….

Anyway the show “Oba L’agbe” featured basic rudiments of farming which inspired many households to start some kind of mini-farms and vegetable patches in their backyard. We had quite a sizeable portion of empty land attached to out property so
we planted maize, tomatoes, casava, vegetables, ewedu and sugar cane in our backyard and my younger siblings and I and sometimes our mum, suprisingly had so much fun, tilling and working on “awa farm”

We also had a quite fertile pawpaw tree! So we often binged on “Ibepe” from our own garden and used a lit of our produce in our kitchen.

I wonder if that program or anything similar still airs today….

And I also wonder if families still have vegetable patches in their backyards especially when parents are nowadays, mostly occupied by social media and owambe parties…

BJ
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