Up on the farm now! it´s great. Totally picturesque with a little bit of everything. There is about an acre plot that is the garden, growing carrots, onions, broccoli, lettuce, more other kinds of lettuce, avocado and lemon trees, tomatoes, basil, cilantro......and more! there are chickens, guinea pigs (pretty popular meat here in Ecuador), cows, wild turkeys, and pigs! An amazing tree nursery and a school facility for Ecuadorian students to come up and stay for a week on the farm for a week learning about sustainability and small organic farming. This week a big group of fifty students came up, they quickly got put to work weeding.
I am staying in the volunteer house with 8 others at the moment, a swede, a dutch, a frenchie, one other America and four germans! It is very popular for these guys to go off for a year of volunteering between high school and university. But volunteers come and go pretty frequently, this weekend we had a huge fiesta for two girls that were leaving the farm. We killed three chickens and two guinea pigs. I was not savy killing my chicken and it got off the block cause I let go of it not realizing i would need several hits for complete decapitation... yea pretty intense, but every step in that process was intense. It made my heart race like crazy when we were running around the chicken yard trying to catch the chickens, but I think it´s cause the chickens were so freaked out too, they could just smell the eminent death...plucking wasn´t so bad, but took quite a while, the crazy part was gutting them! oih. Pretty gnarley. The guts were so colorful though. We put them in a delicious onion soup one of the germans was making. All the food we cook in the volunteer house comes from the farm, or most of, our eggs and milk also come fresh from the farm as well but we come into town to buy grains and other "luxury" foods we want to add to our meals, like peanut butter or raisins... Pretty cool. So i got to eat the chickens and feel morally okay about it. Finally got to kill the meat I eat, which I do believe everyone should experience. And damn we would not be eating so much chicken if every bird had to be plucked and gutted first, it took some work and was messsssy.
well thats all for now, gotta go to the supermercado and get back on the bus to return to the farm.
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