So our first round of intense harvesting is done with...we’ve harvested about 15-20% of the rice farm and got most of the rice grains out, threshed, and in the process of drying.

We had hired contract labor (women) to “scratch” the farm where “scratching” is what we call planting and raking over the seeds. The first day we ‘scratched’, I learned that they had mixed in corn seeds with the rice seeds that they ‘broadcast’...that is to say that they cast out a wide sweeping hand motions. Then I learned they’d added in sesame seeds...and tiny local cherry tomatoes...and bitter balls...and okra. It has been exciting watching all these things grow profusely.

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