Since my arrival here at Legacy I have tried many new and interesting types of fruit. Some I had already tried in the […]

It is that obnoxious season of the year again. Santa Clause is depicted in every shopping mall. Everywhere you look, there are those fake evergreen trees with red and silver balls hanging on them and sometimes a plastic angel perched on top. And then there is that maddening music. If I hear Jingle Bells one more time, I am going to scream! …And by the way, I am talking about Thailand, not Los Angeles or Dallas. It is now all over Thailand, too.

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.

We ran into some paperwork problems and had to postpone the procedure for a few days. Bureaucracy is the same everywhere. Waiting […]