Sopee lives in O’Chra Village. The family grows almost all of their own food.

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Food from the Land

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Food from the Land

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Sopee lives in O’Chra Village.

The family grows almost all of their own food.

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From January to March they clear land for planting.

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Then they plant the crops.

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Then they weed the ground to help the crops to grow.

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After school Sopee and her mother walk down to their field to work.

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They are growing cassava which tastes a bit like potato.

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They also grow things like eggplant, beans, sweet potato, cucumber and pineapple.

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It’s very hot so they stop for a break in a special shelter built to provide shade.

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Luckily they don’t have to walk home today!

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Sopee likes jackfruit which tastes like banana and pineapple combined.

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A very important crop is rice.

The ground is prepared with a hand tractor.

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Then the rice seed is sown.

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After planting, the people have a special ceremony to ask for a blessing on the harvest.

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Sopee and her family believe that the spirits of their ancestors help them.

This is a shrine with offerings for their ancestors.

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Sopee and her family use one of their fields for about three years and then they let it lie unused.

Can you guess why?

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Sopee and her family also get many things they need from the forest.

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This includes wood for cooking, resin for candles, mushrooms, medicines

and rattan for weaving.

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The people in Sopee’s village know that it is important to look after the forest.

They collect the fruit but don’t cut down the trees.

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Any food left over goes to the family pig.

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What do you think happens to the pigs?

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There is a small shop in the village but people don’t use it very much.

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Compare how Sopee gets her food to how you get your food.

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Photo credits: Crispin Anderlini and Murray Shearer (Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand)