At the hill tribe farm we meet three of the four generations of the extended family. The great grandmother was chopping a young banana stock to be mixed with corn, cooked and feed to the pigs.
The mother and one of her children were in the second house and the others were out working.
There were small enclosures for the pigs, a horse and the water buffaloes. The animal manure was scraped off the slabs into a holding area where the chickens were scratching for their lunch. Later it would be spread on the fields for fertilizer.
There was one modern house in this family's area but most of the buildings were of the old construction using wooden posts and beams with interlaced bamboo slats covered with mud-straw mix similar to adobe.
Note the old buffalo-drawn plow hanging on the wall in the above photo. These plows are still in use in some of these hill villages but people are changing to mechanical propulsion as they can afford it. Note the contrast of old and new in the next photo.
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The mother and one of her children were in the second house and the others were out working.
There were small enclosures for the pigs, a horse and the water buffaloes. The animal manure was scraped off the slabs into a holding area where the chickens were scratching for their lunch. Later it would be spread on the fields for fertilizer.
There was one modern house in this family's area but most of the buildings were of the old construction using wooden posts and beams with interlaced bamboo slats covered with mud-straw mix similar to adobe.
Note the old buffalo-drawn plow hanging on the wall in the above photo. These plows are still in use in some of these hill villages but people are changing to mechanical propulsion as they can afford it. Note the contrast of old and new in the next photo.
Next (and last) section follows.
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