Taking a break from our busy missionary schedule, we scheduled a trip to our favorite farm in Yilan:
While snacking on strawberries and new potatoes which we helped plant last fall, (check out that blog post here: http://coffeysmission.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-day-at-local-farm-in-yilan.html) Cousin Zhang prepares an amazing lunch from her kitchen around the back of the house.
While snacking on strawberries and new potatoes which we helped plant last fall, (check out that blog post here: http://coffeysmission.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-day-at-local-farm-in-yilan.html) Cousin Zhang prepares an amazing lunch from her kitchen around the back of the house.
Resting under the passion fruit canopy, we
listen to the honking of geese and cackling of chickens in our latest
adventure on the farm – an escape from the busy city life in Taipei.
Now it’s rice planting season – so we were back to experience farm life once again – wallowing deep in the rich clay soil of Yilan’s rice paddies.
Cousin Zhang picked us up from the bus station and whisked
us off to the previously planted rice paddy.
Through one of our senior sister missionaries
as a translator, Cousin
Zhang filled us in on the how-to’s of the job at hand –
Zhang filled us in on the how-to’s of the job at hand –
Thick socks protected our feet as we took a handful of rice
seedlings and took our first steps into the quagmire. Dark gray sticky mud swirled
around our calves and sucked us in – making steps difficult at first. We had to
straddle the rows of seedlings and find areas where the row was bare.
Cousin Zhang explained – snails are a natural part of the environment
and snack on the tender organic shoots. (who wouldn’t?!) While the seedlings are initially planted by
machine, as they grow up the snails take their fair share. Our job was to replant where
there were bare spots.
Collected snails would soon become duck food.They crunched beneath our thick socks as we sloughed through the dark gray mud.
Lunch is ready. Cousin Zhang and her friend present home
grown vegetables with a delicious noodle dish, along with some hearty seafood.
Dessert? Passion fruit, freshly plucked from the overhead canopy.
So if you’re heading to Taipei anytime, after the
coronavirus settles down of course, make a day trip out to Yilan. A little farm life is
good for the soul. Check out her Facebook page for more about farm opportunities: https://www.facebook.com/casamia.joe/
卡莎&蝦蝦開心農場+廚房 -粉絲
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