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My family in the Philippines pretty much farm (rice and vegetables) for only a few months of the year, and the only technology they use is a few diesel water pu
by alfiedotwtf 6y ago
My family in the Philippines pretty much farm (rice and vegetables) for only a few months of the year, and the only technology they use is a few diesel water pumps. To be honest, they’re the happiest people I know
- WalterBright 6y agoDo they make their own cloth? Weave their own clothes? Make their own soap? Make their own shoes? Saw their own planks for the buildings? Make their own nails? Eat food from elsewhere than their farm? Make their own pencils? Paper? Glass? Where did their meat come from? Chop wood and tend the woodburning stove all day? (Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate had a "nailery" where the nails were made that were needed for the buildings.) In any case, powered irrigation is a huge deal. Just imagine the backbreaking work hauling the water by hand.
- alfiedotwtf 6y ago> Do they make their own... Not quiet, as they're not subsistence farming but surplus farming. Though, it's not surplus as in big business, just enough to make it through to the next the year's crop. I don't even think they have bank accounts etc.