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Friday 7 October 2011
Nfamara at the farm!
The Sonko's have some farm land just outside Kerewan and every year they grow ground-nuts (peanuts) and cous. This year they are even growing water melon! (They also grow rice but in a different location because rice fields are swampy areas).
The men tend to the 'farm' and the women work at the rice fields and the 'gardens' (where they grow vegetables).
Whenever I get the chance, I go to Sonko Kunda just after 2pm (prayer time) and pick up the 'food bowl' (prepared by some of the women on the compound) and take it out to the men at the farm. Then the Sonko men (and anyone else working at the farm) and myself, all sit together (in a super little shelter built by one of Nfamara's brothers) and eat.
I took these pictures of Nfamara at the farm a while ago but I've only just got round to posting them!! Very soon the ground-nuts and cous will be ready for harvesting.
Nfamara stood in front of the 'shelter'
Ground-nuts!!
The bike that brings the lunch!!
Ground-nuts to the left of the picture, cous to the right!
Looks like hard labour!!
ReplyDeleteLucy x