Yum yum done

The past month has been a busy blurr full of wonderful times... 

On February 17th I started cooking for a permaculture course at Tacomepai in pai Thailand. Myself and two other friends/volunteers took on the challenge of cooking three healthy meals a day for thirty people! 

This was a typical breakfast of sticky rice/ brown rice porriage, friut salad and a green salad. 

We made lots of starfriut chutney! 

And raw cookies! 

Raw beet/carrot/oat/nut ball: 

We also did a lot of foraging. I learned how to first identify and then cook with new ingredients. For example the banana heart, banana flower, tapioca roots and leaves, morning glory and pandana (a leaf that taste sweet). 

During one of my weekend nights off So friends and I went to a place 45 min outside of pai called moon village. This is a Japaneese community that throws a 108 day festival/party. I met a girl from Santa Cruz and we hula hooped and played around with poi. During my time there I got bit by thousands of sand flies on my ankles. The next morning my ankles were very swollen. I wanted to heal it naturally. 

I learned that turmeric mixed with water will draw the poison out. So I made some beautiful turmeric wraps:

The wraps really helped for the pain. I also learned eating an entire clove of garlic every hour helps heal infections. So I tried that aswell. 

After four days my feet started to turn blueish and I got a fever.  I decided it was time for some good ol' weastern medicine! 

When I got to the hospital the doctor took one look at my feet and suggested that I stay in the hospital for 3-7 days. I did not see the hospital being the best place for me to heal. So as an alternative I convinced my doctor to let me come in every 6 hours (that's four times a day!- 1am, 7am, 1pm,7pm). That fun lasted for four days. 

During my healing time I decided to do some sewing so that I would not be tempted to be running around. These are some items I stuck together or beautified with bells and lace:

These are some happy hippie headbands:

Yes that is 200 bells I put on my pants. Only to learn how annoying it is to be jingling all the time! 

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Two shirts I stitched together:

Skirt made from my shirt. 

As my Thai visa was coming to an end I decided that I needed to be back at new land one last time. I spent a week there practicing my machete, bamboo and jungle knot skills. The days were also filled with baby ducks and chicks, puppie love, yummy raw food and watering plants. 

I made a drying rack. In this picture we are drying banana trunk to weave baskets! 

This is a jungle twist! It's all in the wrist:

 

This is a fire place I constructed:

This hammock was falling apart and was almost going to be thrown away. I saved it and brought it back to life! 

I decide one day that the farm has a lot of really pratical things that served many purposes. So naturally I had to make something completely useless. This is what I came up with: 

Stay tuned for more adventures.