The Family Farm

This is a collection of pictures from the family farm about 20 kilometers out of town. They have rice, sugar cane, rubber trees, charcoal kilns, cows, chickens, as well as numerous fruit trees. This is Mon, Min, and I standing against the edge of the field of sugar cane.

Here are saplings of the newest field of rubber trees. These are only a couple years old and will need to mature at least another four years before they can start to harvest the rubber. They have seveal different rubber trees farms on the property already yielding one Baht per day.
This is the edge of their biggest rice field, just days before harvest. I was supposed to be out there to help cut the rice, but they were waiting for the weekend and I got off with just walking on the grounds.
Looking back on one of the fields, it's rice as far as you can see. In two full days, 20 people will cut the entire crop, collect it, and "hit" the rice of the stalk. That should be enough rice for the year, plus a surplus to sell for profit.
On a walk across the newly planted sugar cane field, Pee Took found a large clump of mushrooms growing around the stump of a tree. Knowing they were the type Pee Meaw thinks are delicious, Min collected them in his shirt until Pee Took found a large banana leaf to make into a bag.

A single tree stands on the field as the sun setting starts to create natural hues of purple and orange in the sky. This also meant the mosquitos were out in full force biting at any uncovered skin.
Pee Took bent down a tall stalk of sugar cane and ripped off the feathery flower from the top to give to Min. Min carried it around as a young King carrying around a septer.