Agriculture; Community development; Food and meals; Schools
I worked with 12 schools in Costa Rice from 1980 to 1982. This was at the school called San Francisco. The teacher and students were wonderful and worked hard on their vegetable garden.
My site mate, Nick, hiked 2 hours up to my mountain abode for lunch on a rare sunny day. I show this photo to my students to illustrate the kitchens and the life style of many Filipinos. Note the coconut oil can wood stove and obligatory thermos so...
This Volunteer is an agricultural extensionist and works with small farmers improving crop production through the use of fertilizers and better cultural practices. Here, she (right) and village residents prepare to clean guinea pigs.
This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. This is a picture of 4 brothers and their friend storing the millet harvest in their traditional grain bank. On the ground from left to right are...
This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the Extreme North Region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse, in the bush, in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and...
Unicef furnished us vegetable seeds so we could help the women in the villages learn to plant and maintain vegetable gardens to have a variety of vegetables all year long. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Winter 1967
This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the extreme north region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse (in the bush) in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and...
This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in September 2010. The woman on the left is Hassana Garba who taught me how to pound and winnow my own millet. The other woman is Zina Hashimu, Hassana's...
This was our kitchen in the rooms we rented in 1978-79 in Bonuan Blue Beach, near Dagupan in the Philippines. We took this picture before we added a burner top oven - what a step up that was! Still, we were ever so grateful that our rent included...
This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. These are three of my closest neighbors and friends eating tup (boiled millet mush) with okra sauce. From left to right are Zali Sanushi with her...
Food and meals; Host community; Host community friends
This photo taken on August 27th, 2006 shows my wife and I engaged in the classic Paraguayan ritual with our favorite progressive farmer in our site in Paraguay. Sharing the indigenous green tea, yerba mate, with a communal cup is the universal way...
My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, in the North Region of Cameroon, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make...
This photo taken in the kitchen of a home in a village in Thailand in March, 2011. Thai food is cooked at such a high temperature, it's useful to cook in front of an open window or outside, otherwise a hot house gets even hotter! This photo...
My brother in-law, Wickham, is holding up a shark. We had just visited a Japanese owned fishing boat that dumped about 1000 fish, all by catch, into our wooden dugout. The whole village ate well that night.