Monday, February 4, 2008

Well, poco apoca, I am learning spanish and poco a poco, I am learning about computers and this blog site.This first series of pictures are from a town called Almolonga -the molar. It is shadowed by a volcano crater that looks like a tooth. This valley is home to 20,000 to 30,000 inhabitants who live on the sides of the mountains and farm the most fertile valley in the region. The market is set up for export, connecting families with large bags of produce with buyers who export to other villages and countries. The picture with the well in the middle shows the size of a family plot. The men then become human rainbirds and shovel water with wooden headed shovels. What might be a farm for one corporation in the states is a way of life for thousands of families. They farm this valley year round and farm the surrounding hills in the summer. It is very fertile and subirrigated.

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