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We make chili...that's right, real chili with hamburger and cheese

Sarah likes baby animals, and sometimes can't keep herself from picking them up

All good things have their cost...electricity means they have to cut down treasured trees.

I get to watch Planet Earth with some friends. BBC videos blow their minds!

Students at the school get their CSM (cerebral spinal meningitis)

Eggplant paninis

Vegetable spring rolls

Some of tarsor's groups rabbits

What a cutie

We try to make a clay pot into a beehive.

This was amazing. We made salmon burgers complete with onion rings, fresh lettuce, tomatoes, eggplant etc

Ghanaian school cafeteria ladies

Ghanaian assembly place

Ghanaian school bell

Ghanaian school playground

Ghanaian school bathrooms

We sit and pluck groundnuts (peanuts) from their roots brought from the farm to their houses

This lady has to be 80 years old and plucks groundnuts sitting on the ground for about 8 hours a day

I didn't believe them when they said baboons were in the bush, but I guess I was wrong. This one is a pet now, apparently abandoned by its mother.

A good person to 'look up to' :)

September/October 2012 pictures

Yams, kinda like potatoes grow in mounds here like this!

Mimuni, a friend of mine at his corn farm

This is actually what peanuts grow like

We talk with an agriculture outreach agent about proper spacing of your crops and the importance of knowing the size of your fields

Jordan and the school group bait the bars for a bee hive with bees wax

Then we make it smell sweet by rubbing lemongrass all around it to attract the bees

The top bars are replaced and we're finished baiting

Issah and I transport the grafted mangoes to the general garden project

Jordan gives a small talk about nutrition of mothers and their children.

Now the beehive is ready and in place out in the bush

The three circles represent who is central to the cooking of nutritious foods in the community. It is obviously the mother in our community. This was arranged by RADFORD, a local NGO.

Sarah prepares to janga dance

She enters and starts circling...

showing the characteristic moves

here she comes! —

and the butt tapout! —

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before grinding mills could grind corn and other things, the women would grind using stones. this ceremony reenacted the songs they would sing all together

Our latest lizard friend...So cool

We make a green pepper nursery at the general garden

We finally get some other gardeners to come do some really heavy work.

After showing these guys the picture, this was the direct quote. Issah (holding the pot): "me looking like a small boy and Saidu (without the shirt) like a macho man! Kie!"

Tomato Seeds in bulk