Hello all!
I made it to Pun Pun Farm without many problems, and I have adjusted completely to the life here! I'm even friends with Jo Jandai now, even though I was pretty starstruck when I first talked to him. I am completely surrounded by nature here, but there is also a quaint little Thai village that's a five minute walk away where I can get some good ice cream :) I have the most delicious Thai (mostly) vegetarian meals three times a day, and I usually do about 3-5 hours of farming work a day between meals. I've also met such a huge variety of people from all over the world, most of whom have done amazing things during the course of their lives to give back to society and to the environment.
This place is my kind of heaven (just like a lot of other places I've seen during the course of this summer).
So far I've done things like feeding the fish in the fish pond and rice patty fields, weed the gardens, make some garden beds, pick vegetables and fruits for dinner, help with the cooking, plant different seeds, replant other vegetables, hike up the mountains to look for mushrooms, feed the chickens, and do some seed saving!
I've also gone on one excursion to a nearby lake, where a house boat can be rented for one night for only 400 baht! We biked through kilometers of beautiful Thai countryside, and also ate a lot of lon-guns along the way, which are like lychees, and are currently very much in season here. Tomorrow I hope to go to the market in Mae Tang and do some souvenir shopping, of goods made by the Thai hill tribe people.
Pictures will be up soon!
I made it to Pun Pun Farm without many problems, and I have adjusted completely to the life here! I'm even friends with Jo Jandai now, even though I was pretty starstruck when I first talked to him. I am completely surrounded by nature here, but there is also a quaint little Thai village that's a five minute walk away where I can get some good ice cream :) I have the most delicious Thai (mostly) vegetarian meals three times a day, and I usually do about 3-5 hours of farming work a day between meals. I've also met such a huge variety of people from all over the world, most of whom have done amazing things during the course of their lives to give back to society and to the environment.
This place is my kind of heaven (just like a lot of other places I've seen during the course of this summer).
So far I've done things like feeding the fish in the fish pond and rice patty fields, weed the gardens, make some garden beds, pick vegetables and fruits for dinner, help with the cooking, plant different seeds, replant other vegetables, hike up the mountains to look for mushrooms, feed the chickens, and do some seed saving!
I've also gone on one excursion to a nearby lake, where a house boat can be rented for one night for only 400 baht! We biked through kilometers of beautiful Thai countryside, and also ate a lot of lon-guns along the way, which are like lychees, and are currently very much in season here. Tomorrow I hope to go to the market in Mae Tang and do some souvenir shopping, of goods made by the Thai hill tribe people.
Pictures will be up soon!
