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| My partners in crime and me in the kitchen- Cookin up a meal for up to 20 people at time!   |
Waterproofing the roof.
Making finishing touches.
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Making more mud bricks!
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Gardening; Planting, Fertilizing, Weeding, Harvesting
Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Vounteering on a Thai Farm: Projects!
Cook! Using all fresh and organic and even wild plants! Our staple ingredients are things like ginger, chilies, soy sauce, mustard flowers, wild sweet potatoes, papaya, and mizuna!
Build!
Waterproofing the roof.
Waterproofing the roof.
Volunteering on a Thai Farm: Breakfast & The 5 Contemplations
When I was in Canada looking for an opportunity to do something meaningful in Thailand, I naturally started to pursue agriculturally-driven projects. But I didn't want to go to just any farm- I wanted to learn as much as possible- about farming, meditation, how to build a mud-house. I had a bucket-list going on. I started looking for farming opportunities where I could build a mudhouse, and within a community living in a meditation sangha-style. 
Eventually, when I found this farm, which is organic and is a place of meditation. I wrote an email immediately and received a response within a few days telling me that there was an opportunity to learn about earthen building and the offer was there. They said to come out to and work on the farm in exchange for learning about building earthern homes, meditation, and Thai cooking, so I did. Something I really like is that each morning the volunteers and the farmer all gather outside after walking meditation, for a modest but fulfilling breakfast, sitting at a few makeshift tables among the bales of straw and bamboo. He reads "The Five Contemplations" every morning before eating. 1.This food is a gift of the earth, the sky, numerous living beings and much hard work.
2. May we eat with mindfulness & gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.
3. May we encourage & transform our unwholesome mental formations,especially our greed and learn to eat with moderation.
4. May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet & reverse the process of global warming.
5. We accept this food, so that we may nurture our sisterhood & brotherhood, strengthen our sangha and nourish our ideal of serving all beings.
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| Pumpkin Soup |
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| Our Thai Porridge; Rice with coconut milk, honey, banana and papaya |
ISNT THAT YOD YIAM?!
(awesome)
A Good Laugh
I recently received this picture from a friend back home.
Thanks Jill, love you!!! It was such a good laugh,
I thought I should share it with you all.
Hahaha, enjoy!
Thanks Jill, love you!!! It was such a good laugh,
I thought I should share it with you all.
Hahaha, enjoy!
Uncommon Art in Uncommon Places...
I decided to do something totally different with my summer this year, so I spent most of it in a small coastal village called Wolfville, Nova Scotia!(Canada.) Probably my favourite town to be in. EVER. Walking around Wolfville and through some trails you will find things that you never expected to see in places that you would never expect to see them, thanks to the ''Uncommon Art'' project.
These are a few pictures I took of some cool things around town..
A "unique community and environmental art project."
"I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree..."
from Trees: By Joyce Jilmer
I was so happy when I came across this! It brought back so many memories of childhood, and I could not believe that someone thought to do this, and actually did! I love it! From one of my all time fav movies!
Mary Poppins:"I'd like to make one thing perfectly clear; I never explain anything."
"It's that woman, Mary poppins. From the moment she stepped into this house,
things began to happen to me!" Mr. Banks
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