My wife and I have always dreamt about going back to the rural areas to start farming. Mainly to start growing our own food, spending days tending a flock of chickens, and maybe growing a big garden for our family and perhaps allow our children to enjoy what nature is there to offer them. We are fortunate to have a good provision of land back in our rural area and have always yearned for a homestead, but our thinking was always that this can only happen in the rural areas. But COVID-19 changed all that. Read on to see how. It was ten days into the first 21 days of lockdown of the COVID-19 crisis. We, like all other families in our neighbourhood had stocked food in the house, using the little cash we had on food, in fear that we would not be able go out and buy, or there would not be any food remaining in the shops and at the marketplace. And now all the food we had bought was finished. Last night, our little boy Taonaishe was crying and complaining that he was still hungry after his supper was eaten. We all felt this pestering hunger. “Daddy I am hungry.” But there was no more food and no money at this moment. All I could do was just to take him in my arms and cuddle him, while searching my mind for a way to find something to eat. Then I remembered that I had seen spiked cucumbers fruits growing in the garden, but I don’t even remember how they ended up there. We had seen them growing and started tendering them.