It is harvest time at Legacy school in Chiang Mai. The rice is ripe and ready. Professor Ong-Art, who runs an organic farm near our rice fields told us we need to harvest NOW because our rice is so heavy it will begin to break the stalks!
So, classes are cancelled and all the teachers and students have headed for the fields to bring in the harvest before the King’s Birthday holiday this Thursday, December 5.
T. Leon Sexton
Tugay helps load truck
Ne Blu Too helps harvest
Legacy Farm pickup loaded with harvested rice
Legacy Teacher Meagan Garrant bringing in the harvest
Legacy students harvest the rice with Kay U in foreground
Fred the scarecrow overlooks the harvest
Ne Blu Too joins in the harvest
Moe Paley harvesting ripe rice
Stacking the rice for threshing
Moe Paley displays cut sheaf
Zac Coish (in red shirt) and team ready to begin harvest
Ready to harvest
Black rice ripening
Three acres of rice ready to harvest
Harvesters hard at work
Rice sheaves ready to pick up
“Bringing in the sheaves”
(L to R) Tyler Kincade, Seng Aung and Zac Coish harvesting rice
Tyler (L) and Seng Aung harvesting
Tyler (L) and Seng Aung harvesting
Tyler (L) and Seng Aung harvesting
Seng Aung binds the sheaves
Hom Mali rice ready to harvest
Seng Aung binding sheaves
Tyler, Seng Aung and Zac inspect rice to see if it is ready to harvest
What does Jet Rye mean anyway? Well, it is the latest endeavor of our sustainable agriculture plan; Jet meaning 7 and Rye is a plot of land which equals about 2/5 of an acre. This plot of land, located about 30 minutes northwest of Legacy, we have reserved for the staple food items like rice, corn, soybeans, and peanuts mainly because it is the largest plot we have to work with. Graciously a friend of the school has let us use his land because he cannot farm it at the present time.
During Leon and Gloria’s visit to Myanmar for Pentecost 2014, they were treated almost daily with musical performances from the local church children. They wished to share some with all of you.