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Suichang Part II: Chinese New Year 2014
As I am sure you can imagine, I was ecstatic to get back in touch with the family from Suichang that I stayed with in 2010 (see previous post), and jumped at the opportunity when they invited me to spend ten … Continue reading
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Tagged rural China, Suichang, tea farming, wwoof china, Zhejiang
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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
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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
Liangzhu Village: I was the Ring Bearer in a Chinese Wedding
In sync with my habit of figuring things out as I go, I woke up early Tuesday morning to ‘baidu’ (China’s ‘google’ equivalent) the address of the farm I had made plans to visit in Liangzhu (良渚) village. I had … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperatives, organic farming, rural China, rural land-use, wwoof china, Zhejiang
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