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| the village村莊 |
這裡在清邁北部山區的小村落。菜園、家畜區及志工生活區在前方，主要經濟生產作物的部份在後面及較遠處，他們有另外請人來耕作，我過去時他們的經濟生產田才剛收完一大批的花生，聽說也有一大片的穤米田。這裡一面環繞著竹林與山野，另一面緊接著田野鄉村，歩行幾分鐘後有河流經過，是非常美麗的有機農場。
It’s located in a small village on a mountain of North ChiangMia. Vegetable garden,
animal house and volunteer area are in the front, there’s a area of main crop
behind that they hire villagers to maintain. They just finished harvesting
peanuts in that main crop area while I arrived there and heard there’s stick
rice plantation nearby. It’s a beautiful organic farm, surrounded by forests
and mountains one side and surrounded by country village another side. Just
take a walk for a few minutes, there’s also a river passing by.
在這裡可以看見傳統的農耕方式，他們會自己留種與育苗，菜園耕作時先把灌溉系統準備好，接著除草(很多香附收集好放在很強韌的香蕉地上，有香附子則留下來當藥材)、整地、放堆肥與和土、放乾稻草、最後種下菜苗，當然種好了菜苗之後別忘了要澆水。種作物時除了根據不同的季節外，也會依月亮來調整不同的作物，通常在接近月圓時會種根莖類，皆近新月時可種一般葉菜類。Tea在菜園裡也散種一些花，除了美觀外也為了防蟲，防蟲上，她也利用混耕，她就指著田裡的菜跟我說，芥菜跟紅蘿蔔一起種很不錯，有時會有幾顆蕃茄也跟著一起種，我也看見有的農家會把芥菜跟蔥一起種，另蕃茄與蔥一向是絕配。
We could experience and learn the
tranditional Lanna farming here. They save seeds and grow here. I have attended
the whole process of growing vegetable while volunteer here. We prepare the
irrigation system, weeding, prepared the land and then put compost to mix with
the soil. After that we put straw to cover all the land and dig holes and grow
those vegetable seedlings. Surely watering after growing is necessary. They are
farming not only according by the weather but also the moon. e.g. they grow
roots plants while the full moon and green leaves in the new moon Tea also
grows some daisy and other followers not only for the beauty but also prevent
pest. They also use multi-planting to get more benefit for plants. Tea showed
me the pile and told me mustard and carrots are good to plant together,
sometimes a few tomatoes grow with them together. I found a lot of farmers in
this village grow mustard with onion. And surly, tomatoes and onion are always
very good company with each other.
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| 育苗圃 nursery |
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| 地準備好了可以開始種了 Now the land is ready |
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| 在動物圈可看見很多這麼的小水池以幫這裡的植物澆水 Many this kind of small ponds for watering plants in animals area |
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| 小山坡菜園的池塘引用水The terrace gardening irrigation pond |
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帶領志工一起生活的主要是Tea的先生Jim, Jim是這裡土身土長的，他的父親是當地的草藥師傅，現在他傳承給Jim, 所以他也知道很多草藥的知識，他在過去曾離開家鄉以修習佛學，研究所畢業後在廟裡當了16年的和尚，好像之後也曾到處駐唱、當廚師，甚至曾在清邁開過自己的餐廳，他很喜歡音樂，不但自己作歌作曲，也可以玩很多樂器。回到故鄉，他見村民農耕用太多藥而身體出現問題，就開草藥桑拿浴館來醫治他們，但這耗太多的木材所以就收起來，在村子裡，也做了不少服務，例如曾發起為無家可居的流浪漢蓋房子的案子，教孩子們英文、音樂。近年來他在HHH有機農場裡開始養鬥雞，不是很清楚他養鬥雞的原因，但是曾聽他提過養一隻很棒的鬥雞就像種出很棒的米一般在我們的蘭納(Lanna)文化裡是非常值得驕傲的。他們跟村落的關係很好，村子裡的親戚很多，常常志工們種的菜不夠用，都跟他的叔叔買菜，這個村落的人彼此都常互相幫忙，我們也在這裡看見一起蓋房子及農耕的換工例子。
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| 村民們一起蓋小村，得先準備很多竹绑繩 have to prepare a lot of bamboo strings first for tight in construction a hut |
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| JIm is prepaing the bamboo strings. Jim在準備竹綁繩 |
Tea’s husband Jim is the main person to
guide all the volunteers. Jim’s father used to be the
local villages medicine man and now passed down to Jim. That’s why he
has a lot of knowledge about herb and medicine. He left his hometown to study
Buddhist Philosophy and chose to live as a Buddhist monk for 16 years after his
graduated. Eventually he decided to search spiritual life outside of the
temples He used to play music, to be a chef and even ran his own restaurant in
ChiangMia before. He enjoys a lot in music and composes a lot of songs, plays
many different instruments as well. He found out many villagers get very bad
health after farming with chemical and start sauna
program to cure them after he coming back
home. But finish this program since it’s waste too many woods. He started a lot
of programs to help the village before like to build a house for homeless
people 竹 or teaching children music and English. These years he started to raise
fighting cocks in HHH organic farm but no idea the reason, he mentioned about
raise a very good fighting cock is just like you grow very good sticky rice
something we are very prout of in our Lanna culture. Jim has many relatives in
the village since this is his home village. We have seen villagers help with
each other quite often here especially construction and farming. And Jim always
gets vegetables from his uncle’s garden while we need vegetables.
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| The volunteer is asking buddist philosophy from Jim. the bamboo weaving in the font is the trap for birds in the forest Jim made. 志工請教Jim佛法, 前方的竹編物是Jim編來當森林小鳥的捕捉器 |
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Jim是個很熱情且很熱分享所知的尤其是佛學與巴利文，除此以外，他也會中國拳術、泰國菜、音樂…..，基於泰北鄉下的村民，基本的竹子使用與蓋竹屋當於都難不倒他，他也具有野外求生的底子，曾獨自一人在野外深山裡渡過10天，非常多才多藝，志工們可以從他身上學到很多東西。
Jim is very passionate person and loves to
share with everybody especially his strong passion—Buddhist Philosphy &
Pali text. Besides that, he could share Chinese Kong-Fu, Thai &Lanna
cooking, music….., As to be a Thai country villager, it’s very basic skill to
use bamboo and build a bamboo hut. He used to stay in the forest by himself for
10 days. He had to make shelter, search foods & water himself in the
forest. Such a versatile person, volunteers could learn a lot from him.
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| 這小牛只有九個月大耶 The buffalo is only 9 months old |
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| 要溜牛真不容易,即使只是牛寶寶 It's not easy to walk a buffalo, even only a baby buffalo |
志工生活區平常也是沒有電的，只有晚上有電燈，大約六點時會亮起一直開到大約九點多。志工們如果想參加團體靜坐及瑜伽可以早上5:30到靜坐小屋一起活動。
大家一起於早上6:30集合開會，集合時，可能會有志工升火煮HHH的自產高級咖啡來喚起大家的精神，之後大約7:00就開始工作，在這裡很多的工作比較不會有人特別幫你安排，我們得自己觀察及主動學習與行動，要特別進行的計劃可以先跟Jim提出來，但基本上這裡的生物得要有人照顧，這裡養了很多雞、有一隻小牛還有一隻豬及很多植物，所以大家彼此協商，基本上這些動植物得被先照顧到，平日要用到的柴火也都確定己準備好了，再看看園區的需求或者是自己所要學習的計劃來進行工作，總之大家就是一起來生活及學習的。三餐Jim會負責煮(尤其是糯米飯得非常地謹慎)但志工可以協助(順便學習)，週六是志工尋食日，志工得討論著隔天的菜單，在志工尋食日時出去找食物或採購，隔天一整天也就是週日都由志工煮食，而週一是休假日。
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| 志工日時志工煮的餐This meal cooked by volunteers in volunteers day |
We get a very simple living here without
electricity but there’s automatic light on from 6PM to 9PM in the kitchen where
we cook, talk and eat together. Volunteers are free to attend group yoga and
meditation together from 5:30AM to 6:30.
In general, we all meet together in the kitchen at 6:30 and
enjoy HHH homemade high quality coffee together first to get ready. After that
we start to work from 7AM. We have to observe the environment and ourselves to
know what we should do there’s no body arrange works for us. We still could ask
people here if they need a hand. We could propose any project we’re interested
and discuss with Jim. But at least, all the animals and plants in the farm
should be take good care first. There’re one lovely baby buffalo, sad pig and a
lot of chickens and plants. We should manage to give them food first and make
sure they get good care. And also make sure enough fire woods. After that we can arrange our work by HHH need and also what
we like to learn. We live and learn together. Jim cooks
3 very delicious meals for us everyday except volunteer day, surely volunteers
could help especially the one likes to learn cooking. Every Saturday is a
volunteer food hunting day, we hunt food for the next day (Sunday) volunteer
cooking day. We discuss the cooking recipe tomorrow and harvest or buy those
ingredients on Saturday. We are in charge of 3 meals cooking on Sunday. And we
get day off on Monday.
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| 很多鬥雞得放進籠子裡，以免園子裡的雞群們不安寧 A lot of fighting roosters have to be kept in the cages for peaceful chicken life |
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| 每天都得去割很多的草來餵小牛，晚上很泠，所以要幫她起火取暖 we have to find a lot of grass for the buffalo and also make fire for her to over come chilly night. |
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| 安慰憂鬱的母豬comfort the sad pig |
這邊除了簡單生活及自給自足的學習外，也非常強調蘭納(Lanna)
文化及佛陀教育，Jim也要求志工們尊重蘭納(Lanna)
文化，所以對志工除了基本環境維護外會有一些基本的規矩：
*大自然裡，動物間很多食物都是共享的，沒有個別的食物 (所以我們吃飯時，每個人都拿一隻湯匙，直接饀菜或飯，剛開始還真不習慣)
*人兩隻耳朵卻只有一張嘴，所以我們要多聽少說話。沒事多找事情做，不要一群人聚在一起光聊天
*要遵重老師，聽老師的話
*不喝酒
*米是神聖的，要對米的尊重，不跨過米飯
Besides simple living and self-reliance
learning, they emphasize on Lanna culture and Buddhist teaching a lot. Besides
those basic living environment maintaining, there’re some more requests, like
*Animals always share their food while
eating in the forest. There’s no individual. We mimic that as well.(there’s no
individual bowl, everybody only eat with one spoon and get public food. It
takes time for me to get use of it)
* we are born with 2 ears but
only 1 mouth. That means we should listen more and speak less. We
should find things to do when we are available, don't sit and only talk together.
*Respect teachers and listen to teachers.
*no alcohol
*rice is sacred. We should respect rice and
never step over the sticky rice.
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| 原來柚木屋頂是這樣編的 That's how they make teak leaf roof |
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| 為志工學習安排的雞耕耘機 arrange to make a chicken tractor for volunteers learning |
他也希望來這裡的志工可以建立出好的態度出來，所以也能適時地教育志工，提醒志工們對週糟人事物的愛與覺知，讓志工養成較好的習慣，隨時照顧生活環境、生命與使用的工具。
He likes all volunteers cultivate good
attitude here and also educate volunteers when it's necessary. He reminds people get more awareness and love all the surrounding, get a good habit, take good care of all living being and even the tools you use.
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| 這些廁所、浴室全是志工做的 All those toilets and shower rooms are all from volunteers |
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| 這志工很愛喝咖啡，她就認養做咖啡的工作 This volunteer love drinking coffee a lot and decided to take the coffee making task |
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| 想學編織可以編雞舍 make chicken house if interested in weaving |
在這裡也是很簡單自然的生活方式，生活中就可以學到很多 “自給自足”的技能。Jim及Tea是特別為分享所知才開放志工過來的，發現他們自己的生活及工作並不真得需要志工來幫忙，經濟作物有請人耕作，若只是簡單的一家人所需栽種的蔬果也不用太多，再說他們的辦事效率很好，很多事他們都可以很有效率地解決，這裡許多志工區域的設置是因志工的學習需求而產生的，到目前為止他們招待的志工己有2000多人了，以前他們給志工非常大的空間跟享受，但似乎很多東西沒被愛惜，所以後來才會有一些限制，但他們還是盡可能地分享及讓志工有擴展的機會。有的志工會覺得似乎一整天都在工作，只有晚上是可以好好地放鬆聊天或唱歌，但其實應該說是很密集的學習，我們所做的工作其實都是在學習。另外縱然Jim很博學且熱於分享，志工們也是學習到很多東西，但對於所學的，很多東西還是得自己去體悟與驗證才是。
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| 有志工想學木工 Prepare to make a table from those volunteers like to learn carpentry |
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| 這些志工休息小屋也是以前的志工蓋的 The volunteer huts were made byvolunteers before |
Very simple living here and we learn all
those self-reliance skill from our living. I found out Jim and Tea open this
volunteer project only for sharing. They don’t really need volunteers to help
since they hire people for farming already. They don’t need a lot of
vegetables if only for themselves. They are very efficient
people and could finish all the tasks very fast. Even some devices that
created for volunteer learning only. There are over 2000 volunteers in HHH
until now, they gave a lot of space to volunteers but found out the things or
space they shared not be cherished and now more restrict than before. But they
still try their best to share and give chances for volunteers to expend
themselves. Some volunteers might feel they are working whole day, only relax
in the night. But what I like to say instead, we are learning very intensively
whole day. The work we have done not so much valuable for them but most only
for our learning. Surly Jim is very versatile and love to share that we really
learn a lot. But we should also practice, experience and analyze what
we have learned.
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