Monday, November 19, 2012

Farming On Aur Atoll

Farming is important to my parents and me because there are many things we do on our farms. Our two farms are not very big, but it is important to protect it from the local animals. On one farm which is located 100 feet from the lagoon we plant only panana, but on the farm located 200 feet from the house we plant only taro. My parents and I visit our taro farm to plant more because we don’t want to go hungry. Sometimes we go hungry because some animals have destroyed our crops and we have to replant again. After we replant the taro and panana, we use coconut leaves to make a wall to protect our plants from animals like pigs and chickens. Every Saturday, we clean our farms and replant panana and taro. When the boats from the Majuro Atoll don’t bring food, we use our farm to get food so we should not hungry. Our two farms are not big enough to support all the people of my island, but it’s enough for my family. Sometimes people steal our plants because they get hungry. After school every day, we watch our plants and make sure that nobody steals them from our farms. Also it’s important to plant because we are in outer islands and we don’t have enough money to buy food. There are not enough jobs to make money to buy food, but the only way to live is to work on our farm to plant our food. 

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