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
All those who thought our support for the “freedom fighters” in Libya was going to result in freedom and democracy for the Libyan people need to wake up to the realities of the Islamic world. So much for the Arab Spring! The downfall of Kaddafi was bankrolled by the United States. The USA gave money and helped rebels with NATO air support. What was not blasted over the airwaves by major news services was that the leaders of the anti-Kaddafi fighters were Al Qaida operatives with their own agenda for a post-Kaddafi Libya. Now the crows come home to roost. In what is clearly a planned and well executed attack on the consulate in Benghazi, 4 Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador were killed.
For those of you who might be concerned about radical Islamic activity in Thailand, please read below. As I suspected, the Thai police kept things well under control and nothing even near to what is taking place in the Magreb and Middle East has happened here.