By Laura Luttrell Having past the halfway point of our stay in Sri Lanka, we realized that we have yet to visit very much of the country and so, we’ve made it a point to start seeing some of the highlights. This blog recounts a number of our trips in February and March to mountains … Continue reading Time Off and Various Field Trips to the Hill Country
Designing a homegarden
By Logan Sander We are here in Pitikele village trying to plant a “traditional” homegarden, but in many ways how we’re going about that is as foreign as we are. I believe our homegarden will be what we hope it to be (i.e. diverse, representative, productive, beautiful, and educational), but it won’t be traditional in … Continue reading Designing a homegarden
Planting the First part of the Homegarden
By Logan Sander We’ve made several significant improvements to the field station’s land since our last update. Key among them – we’ve begun planting out specimens from our nursery! Faced with burgeoning stocks of plants that were rapidly outgrowing their polybags (mostly ornamental flowers and edible bean crops we grew from seeds), we decided that … Continue reading Planting the First part of the Homegarden
Chewing betel
By Blair Rynearson Before coming to Sri Lanka I knew betel only by description. Friends that had travelled in Southeast Asia told of a nut that was chewed by locals that produced the same effect as smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco. They said users spit a red juice that looked like blood, and many streets … Continue reading Chewing betel
Attack of the wild boars, and our response
By Logan Sander This past week saw several new developments in our nursery. While the three of us were traveling we received disturbing news from Somaratne and Dr. Singhakumara: wild boars (ura) had ransacked our nursery, eating our banana, coconut and taro seedlings! The true extent of the damage wasn’t as bad as we had … Continue reading Attack of the wild boars, and our response
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