Lena Hodge, of Wattices, was driven to the office of The Anguillian newspaper on Monday this week with two extensively grown cassava tubers which she had just harvested.
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The five-foot farmer stood between the two cassava lengths which were almost her own height. “I plan to make ‘hushy’ (a grated meal for porridge) from them,” she said, not bothering to bake the traditional cassava bread which involves a greater effort of preparation.
Sweet cassava is now cultivated on a small scale inAnguilla, unlike in earlier days when it ranked highly among the island’s food crops.
