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Category Archives: 2010 Rural Field Visits
Suichang Part I: A Tea Farm, and my Brief Celebrity as a Local Waitress
For my next 2010 field visit (following Julie’s family in Jiangsu province), I contacted a family that was running a large-scale tea farm; at least, definitely larger than the standard ‘noodle plots’ that rural families are allocated through the village … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Rural Field Visits, Zhejiang Province
Tagged rural China, rural land-use, Suichang, tea farming, wwoof china, Zhejiang
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Jiangsu: Julie and the Fish Farm
As promised I will be writing more detailed accounts of each of my 2010 field visits, starting with WWOOF visit # in Jiangsu: Julie and the fish farm. Julie, my first WWOOF contact, was twenty-five and working in Nanjing as … Continue reading
Sichuan Part II: Over the Mountains and through a Cornfield to Aba
As I mentioned in my last post, my first 2010 field visit entailed a lot of vegetable-plot weeding alongside Global Village of Beijing’s farm manager, Peng. Nothing builds camaraderie like digging in the dirt while roasting under the sun and … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, rural China, rural land-use, Sichuan, social enterprise
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Sichuan Part I: Global Village of Beijing
Before detailing my new rural farming adventures (I’ve scheduled my first one for the National Day holiday week of October 1-7) , I’m going to try to provide a better context on what I’m doing and why through my 2010 … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Rural Field Visits
Tagged environment, NGO, organic farming, rural China, rural land-use, Sichuan
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China's Rural Land-Use: Notes from the Field 