First week of work at the farm, some days are quite heavy on the back … we are more used to office work, but we got to do a lot of different task.
- Sorting and packing rice for sale
- Mending the warehouse
- Trimming the mango trees
- Moving plants to another location – transplanting
- Trimming the hedge along sidewalks & hibiscus in vegetable garden
- Seeding vegetables…
- etc. … DIY paradise – Pat loves it! Hélène enjoys it too, but maybe more the free time!
So says Hélène after two days indoors and a painful back.
For some reasons I got the privilege of escaping from this labour, even if we offered my contribution several times… Maybe not considered a man’s job, instead I got to stay out most of the time, or inside when raining – but not to sort rice!
Mending the warehouse Trimming the mango trees
Mia, new WWOOFer from USA, 1/2 Japanese Transplanting Getto (Alphinia Zerumbet)
Quite a tiring task as there were many plants to move and the ground was very stony at some point.
I first believed these plants were put along the rice fields as natural protection… but not at all, they are simply pretty when in flower and used to make tea, etc… ( Getto, Alphinia Zerumbet )
Kazushige was using a special tool to make wholes for the plants.
Rice seeds that we planted, have germinated They still need to grow for another 3 weeks in the greenhouse
