#SejaALuzDoMundo

Today's suggestion for Light The World is to visit a small business and meet the owner, then consider leaving a positive review online.

This morning, our friend Joy took us to meet her father, José, who owns a small farm. He doesn't exactly have an online review option, but we're happy to write a post!  We were impressed with how hard he works, how much work he does there, and his love of the land.

He first took us down to his bank of the Amazon, where he launches to fish and gather shrimp.

 

 

It was interesting to see his shrimp trap and the area where he cooks fish, in the high-water season he puts his cook fire up on the slats there off to the other side of where David is pointing out the water line on the stilts of the house. David would love to go fish off the porch.

 He also showed us how he turns his fields, burning the weeds out from time to time. With all the rain here, weeds grow fast.

He grows melons, corn (here off to the side) and sugar cane (you can see some here along the road).

And he grows macaxeira, a root that he let us sample raw and take home to cook later.

 He also has fruit tress and a pumpkin patch you can see here in the background.

He just harvest some pumpkins, and his dog just had puppies. Joy is showing the girls where the momma dog is nursing them. The girls really loved those puppies.

 

It was a lovely brief trip--we had to cut short and make a run for the van, it was starting to rain and we would not have been able to get through the windy dirt road had it turned to mud. Gratefully, we made it out!

 

 

The macaxeira we boiled at home, it tastes a lot like potatoes. 

We are grateful for all the good people who work hard to grow and distribute the food we eat every day!