Natural Fertilizer
A friend of mine has been busy creating his own natural fertilizer mix. By mixing cow manure, ash and animal bone all into a three thousand liter tank, then trace elements like zinc and calcium are added along with bacteria to break it all down into a liquid form. A total amount of 2,500 liters has been made. Enough for 125 rai. One rai = 1,600 sqm. A rai is a traditional unit of land area in Thailand. The rai is now considered to equal exactly 1600 square meters, which is 0.16 hectare or approximately 0.3954 acre. So around 50 acres. I was able to use some of it in the village in our family’s rice fields. They really liked it and next year want to use all natural fertilizer instead of those nasty chemicals there using now. Chemicals that have nasty side effects and deplete the soil quality. While natural fertilizer isn’t harmful, increases yearly yield, doesn’t deplete the soil and gives your rice more nutrients. I hope to be able to provide all the fertilizer I can for them in the years to come. Also we are looking for our own rice paddy so we can start growing our own rice. If we don’t rent and grow our own rice than we will join up with different children’s homes in the area and help produce more rice. We are also planning on building a rice mill in the village next year as well. I’ll talk more about that later. You can click on the “Rice Mills” link on the right to read more. For now we need to focus on visiting the US and next year we can dive into these new projects. Either this week or the next we will hopefully be having Prang’s interview at the consulate for Prangs visa. I’ll keep everyone posted. For now please be praying for her visa as well as for us to find a rice field. Click here to see more pictures of our time up in the village
Sean and Prang G-pa and I are delighted to hear of all you are doing. You certainly aren’t the little boy we used to know. May God continue to bless you in your work in caring for the children as well as the village. so eager to see you all.
Sean, I hope you don’t mind. I’m stealing some of your fabulous photos to put on the Charis project website. I’ll give you a photo credit. I figured you would be cool with it since it’s all for the same cause.