This past Saturday, July 17th 5 of us Enviros traveled out to Ping Dong to start our Organic Gardening project.

The event was arranged by Sylvia Li, our partner at the Youth Knowledge Network (YKN) and funded by the Taiwan National Science council.  

The project is meant to teach some new skills to some of Taiwan's aboriginals who are living in temporary homes after their villages were destroyed by Typhoon Morakot last year. 

Our first visit we cleared the land with the help of the boys military high school volunteers and some of the locals and their kids. 

After that we solarized the soil by laying down blast cloth, which will sit on the soil for 2 weeks and bake all the seeds underneath. This will create a clean slate for us when we go back to plant in two weeks. 

Ready to work (Leifson and Joy)

要去上班啊

Our site, pre-work, pre-back breaking labor

我們的願意地點，做晚前

This is half the stuff we pulled out of the ground, from half of the site...oh, 我的背不舒服

Garden warriors...we look energetic don't we

看起來很有活力吧

How do we look now?

哪，我們看起來怎麼樣？

 Site half solarized. An entire day, more than 30 people working and we finished half!

一般做好了。一天，30個人一起做工作，只有做一半啊

Fish face or tired face...not sure which

魚臉或累臉，不知道是哪一個

Some of the kids, oh so cute!

那邊的小朋友，好可愛！

Do these military boys ever run out of energy?

他們軍人不會停止

The whole crew!

我們全部都在！