Today I had my tour of the farm! We have over 500 varieties of rice! They are in need of transplanting now, so that is our task when the rain slows in the afternoons. Today I didn´t get around to helping, but plan to tomorrow. We also have: corn, amarynth, but, and at least 5 other things are planted in the same field as multi-crop fields. A girl from Italy, Giulia, has fields of ocra as part of an experiment, and there are some others doing some field experiments too. I have to learn more about all the varieties and crops.
We have a closed composting system too that uses cow manure and kitchen waste and with bio-gas turns it into methane that they use to cook with, again, I have to learn exactly how that works, but soemthing along those lines. The farm is partially solar powered as well. There are other composting systems for farm waste, one of them is the open pit layer system and one is something to do with worms that eat nitrogen or soemthing and then the fertilizer is an equalizer?
Today for breakfast we had a biulger type porridge and chai. After my tour I helped clean the rice. We had a big bag of rice we had to sift through and remove little stones and imperfections of the rice. Even small or broken rice was discarded and will be fed to the cows.
Lunch was a fruit, curried, with rice and lentils, but the fruit tasted and looked a lot like artichoke, so I dont know if it was or not.
The power has just gone out. so I will have to finish this later, my computer isnt charged.