The harvest has been good this year - the rains came at the right time, although they stayed so long there was a chance the maize would rot. Fortunately the dry weather came to ripen the cobs and most people have a good store to get through the year.

Once the maise is dried and shucked off the cob, we take sackfulls to the grinding mill to grind into mealie meal - it's this we use to make nshima, our staple food. You have to have at least a sackful take to the mill so we often take a communal sack and share it out once it's ground. The alternative is many hard hours of pounding!