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Clearing the Land
The rice harvest is finally over for my neighbor, and what’s left are the rice stalks. They started cutting them down on Monday of this week, clearing the land of one rice paddy, and they still have two more paddies to go. I’m not sure what his plan is for the rice straw. In some [...]
Rice Paddy Harvest, Grain and Post-Harvest
Nicole Theriault-Bootsabah
I also posted this at my blog for Nye Noona readers. I noticed that they had harvested most of the front (first) rice paddy yesterday, and currently working on the second (middle section) rice paddy. There is something about people working in the rice paddy that gives me that nostalgic feeling, and the [...]
Rice paddies in GA; long and hard, but well worth it
So what do we do after we harvested the rice? I came across an interesting post from Mozemoua’s blog, very traditional way of processing rice, she explains the planting process in great detail, and the hand made equipments that separate the rice from the pods look just like back home in Laos.
Rice paddies in GA; [...]
US Rice Paddy Harvest Time
This post is for Laovoices and Nye Noona readers, I think harvest time is what we’re waiting to see.
Rice has been a huge part of my upbringing, even though we don’t eat a lot of sticky rice, mainly because my dad is part Chinese, but we do eat white rice as long as I could [...]
US Rice Paddy Ready for Kao Mao
It’s a bit too soon for me to take photos of the rice paddy, I just posted it on Wednesday of last week, and it’s now only Monday, but things progress very fast because of the hot summer sun. Rice paddy is not the reason why I went there today, I wanted to take photos [...]
US Rice Paddy in Late July
It has only been a week since my last post of US Rice Paddy in Mid July and very surprised to see the rice today. I was fortunate to see the owner outside working in his yard, and he said that the rice came out last week (I swear that I didn’t see them, it [...]
US Rice Paddy in Mid July
I visited my neighbor’s rice paddy this morning, still no rice yet, but the rice plants are a lot taller.
To see more photos and read post.
US Rice Paddy in Late June
I paid a visit to my Hmong neighbor’s rice paddy again during my morning break, I was hoping that the rice plants would produce some rice grains by now, but I guess I’m a bit impatience. I asked one of my American co-workers to join me this time, she said, “I don’t know why you [...]
