Who knew a little grain of rice took so much time and effort to produce! It is a small grain that is fairly inexpensive and unobtrusive but a staple food in most Asian countries. In late May at Jet Rye (3-1/2 acres), 30 minutes north of the school, we planted rice the Thai style or the wet patty process. As you will see below a full days work of tilling the ground, flooding the patties, pulling rice seedlings, and finally transplanting the rice plants in the two patties takes quite a bit of effort. Plus that is only half of the process! Several months from now when we harvest the rice we will yield about 300 kg. of rice from the each of the patties we planted. The school uses more than four times that much during the year so eventually we hope to produce enough rice for the entire year so we will not have to buy any at the market. Just one of the ways we are trying to move toward a self sustainable farm at Legacy. Check back in in a couple months to see how we harvest and process the rice for food.
