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August 29th, 2009

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Paddy weeding

By Jeff on 29 August 2009

From a distance, weeding a rice paddy is a formidable task. The rice looks pretty healthy – green, anyway, and producing new shoots – but the field’s a bit shaggy. There’s a lot more than rice coming up in there. Somebody needs to get in there and deal with it. My farmhand, Ai Seud, is the usual somebody, that being his job. But I need to get into it too… read more

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Water and crabs

By Jeff on 29 August 2009

My neighbor Tee was standing looking into his paddy, shaking his head and laughing. “Unbelievable,” he said in heavily German-accented English.  Nearly half his newly transplanted rice seedlings had disappeared overnight. “The other ones are laughing at me,” he said, laughing at himself. “They say, ‘don’t you know how to farm!?’”

Tee’s a Chiang Mai native, a grass-fed beef farmer and a tour guide with the Germans… read more

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