The Stratton ABC Foundation Childrens Home Chiang Mai » banana trees http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com Giving Children A Better Chance in Northern Thailand Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:44:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Harvesting the Garden http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/harvesting-the-garden/ http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/harvesting-the-garden/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:16:39 +0000 John http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/?p=5514 [...]]]> As we tighten the purse strings in these inflationary times it is good that we do have some things in the garden that we can harvest. Over and above the vegetable plots, for instance we have our banana trees. Not only do we get delicious fresh bananas but when the banana tree patch threatens to take over the garden we can chop them down and use the centres of the tree in curry, which is exactly what we’ve been doing this week.

DSCF6347 DSCF6348 DSCF6349 ]]> http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/harvesting-the-garden/feed/ 0 Blistering Work http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/blistering-work/ http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/blistering-work/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:16:18 +0000 John http://www.thestrattonabcfoundation.com/?p=366 [...]]]> blisters2000I do believe I said that the Banana trees were done. Well they weren’t quite. Boon had chopped down the ones we wanted gone but still had to chop out the roots. This he mostly finished today. He really went at it too, refusing to wear the gloves I got him and getting a handful of blisters for his trouble.

Hopefully we have some help tomorrow, from one of the villagers.

Our target is to have most of the grounds clear by next weekend at which point we will order in soil, gravel, etc and start getting the initial layout done.

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