It is very common for everyone in the village to have about an acre of
land around the village on which grains, fruits or vegetables are grown. My host family, for the last two years, has
grown corn so that the chickens, ducks, and the pig can be fed all winter.
My host dad has a small tractor, but he hires someone else to plant the
crop. It is also possible to hire
someone to combine the crop but my host family uses the corn stalks for bedding
and to feed the animals during the winter and they have the time to harvest the
corn by hand.
Since harvesting around on acre of corn is a decent amount of work my
host family asked if I could help. I
agreed gladly, because last year I was either busy or they did not trust me
yet.
This year there were five of us and we each took two rows and walked
the length of the field picking every ear of corn in those two rows and
throwing them into piles. After that we
loaded all of the corn into the tractor and took it home, there we dekerneled
the corn. After this my host parents
went and cut all of the corn stalks and brought them home
We also grew pumpkins and squash in between the rows of corn. We will eat them as well as grind them up to feed the animals.
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