Julia cleaning up around the ferns, Jefflyn raking
09 October 2007
The students are instructed to preserve ferns to the extent possible. Here Julia is clearing around the fern patch under the mango tree.
Julia cleaning up around the ferns, Jefflyn raking
Andrew cleaning in the area of the gardenia, orange ixora, and banana
The large class size has stretched the limits of the available equipment. A number of the women in the class expressed a preference for shorter knives such as 18 inch knife. The shorter knives, being in short supply, left some students swinging 22 and 24 inch machetes. Here Lyna swings two feet of sharp steel.
Lyna cleans up along a small berm
Posing is discouraged but inevitable. Juslyn and Lyna pause for a photo opportunity.
Juslyn and Lyna
Pertin demonstrated the sharp experienced eyes of one familiar with the work and the terrain. Deeply hidden under months of razor grass he finds a dihng plant. This plant had eluded this author's own summer cleaning efforts and no other student had realized that the plant was under all that grass.
Pertin clears out grass and neem.
Corbette clears around a student planted banana of yet to be determined variety.
Corbette
Rakes and pullers are also used to clean-up in the garden.
Jayce and Elsieleen
Sinolet is a very enthusiastic member of the class and has an eye for gardening and plants.
Sinolet
Field days are not all work. There are sometimes opportunities to eat, or just watch. Mary-vic keeps an eye on Lisa Lollaine, Jayce, and Elsieleen.
Jörg, Garry, and Mary-Vic
Midion. Stallone and John Junior in the background
Corbette, Sinolet, and the rest of class head up the slope into a western sun
Three head for home into the setting sun
The walk included pouring rain throughout most of the visit on a dark and appropriately somber afternoon. Only one image was attempted after the class dismissed.
