Ok, that is how I sing the song here in Ghana. This week Carey is studying farms in her home school curriculum, and we had the chance to see a real local farm. Every Tuesday afternoon we go visiting as a family. Sometimes we visit Bible study members that lives far away, but lately we have just started handing out tracts near our main Bible study.
Tuesday before we handed out gospel literature, we had the opportunity to see a local farm. Across the main road from the housing community that our main Bible Study is in, there is a large area of land that the chief still owns. The property is about 50 acres of undeveloped land. That might not sound very big, but here in the city of Kumasi, that is huge! The chief allows farmers to rent the land.
The main farm is about 15 to 18 acres. They grow lettuce, spring onions, cabbage, and a little field corn. We had a great opportunity. They let us walk all around the farm and watch all the worker working. We were able to give them all tracts and even talk to the owner.
It was a good opportunity for my wife and me to teach about different farming techniques. In the United States, all the plants are planted in rows or beds. Here everything is planted in raised bed of fertile dirt. This help to keep down the erosion during heavy rains.
The girls really enjoyed it. It was amazing to watch the workers work, even though the sun was really HOT!
Hope the reader notices the farmers earphones and Ipod! Yep, that is modern Africa for you!
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