{"id":134,"date":"2010-01-28T05:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=134"},"modified":"2011-10-01T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T04:04:00","slug":"monday-across-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2010\/01\/28\/monday-across-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday across the border"},"content":{"rendered":"
We had a good trip on Monday to visit with our Fulani friends across the border. Here’s a photo of one of the veggie gardens that we are helping these former non-farming people to start.
\nAs we drove on the road up to the meeting place, we saw a big corn harvest going on. What amazed us was that the men were doing the work of hulling the corn! They pile a bunch of dried ears in a bag and whack away at it with a heavy stick, then finish up the hulling by hand. It would now be the women’s job to pound the kernels into flour in a big wooden mortar and pestle.
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