May 15, 2013
Today was a culture day, we began by
working with the livestock. the farm has pigs, horses, cows, chickens,
and guine pigs. they do not eat any oth the animals but use them for
trade or sale. the cows are used for milk and cheese. all of the manuer
is used for compost, they have pig compost and then horse and cow
mixure. the farm also uses worm composting. They really utilize
everthing, even the waster from humans. the toilets are dry compost and
eventually it is used for fertilizer for fruit trees.
for our
culture activity we went shrimp fishing. with one of teh locals we
walked down the Rio muchacho river. we had to hold teh net on the edge
of the waterand pull the vegitation from the banks, this caused teh
shrimp to be washed into our net. we only ended up catching a dozen or
so but we dod cook them for dinner. later in teh day we made chocolate.
we roasted cocao beans in a clay pot, once they were toasted we chracked
thier shells and and ground them with pure cane sugar. the cocao is
grown on the farm. we miked the grounds with fresh milk and poured it
ouver fresh bananas also grown on teh farm! it was amazing
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