Forest Garden wrote:
> Those photos were amzing. How many generations did it take for them to do
> all that terracing?
I don't really know but considering the acreage (many mountainsides) and
steep terrain
it could have taken hundreds of years. I do not know the ethnicity of the
happy people in those pix nor their history in
that particular region but you might assume that they are not nomadic and
may represent dozens of generations of their
families who have lived in that general region or locale. If ancient people
lived there then the project could have
started a thousand or more years ago. A good anthropology text would shed
some light on this.
Noctaire wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the terracing is for growing rice --
correct?
It is. Rain collects on the terraces which are dammed up at rice planting
time to thwart weed growth, then drained as
the rice could drown also if left submerged for too long.
Notice the small homestead on one of the steep slopes. They have an
extensive grape arbor (I assume it is grapes or some
semi-tropical fruit), outhouse, clothes line and some yard. Just like home.
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