Kotobian tadau tagazo do Kaamatan! That means Happy Harvest Festival in the Kadazan language. We are celebrating the month of harvesting in Sabah. In Sarawak it is Gawai festival which is the same as Kaamatan. The respective festivals are to celebrate a bountiful harvest. In the old days, natives of Borneo would give offering to the spirit of nature that protect and give blessings to the natives' labour at the rice fields. In the case of Kaamatan, the spirit is the mythical Huminodun. The daughter of Kinoingan - the almighty god of the pagan KadazanDusun people of old. Huminodun sacrificed herself to save the mortals from hunger which had beset them because of the plagues that Kinoingan sent to them as punishment for their sins.
The old religion of the KadazanDusuns is really mystical and universe friendly. They heavily emphasized on balance in nature, co-existing with the spirit world. The actions of the KadazanDusun were always in line with a set of rules or taboos set by their community elders. If any of the rules and taboos were breached, they believed that the transgression would create imbalance in the universe. Well, you can read more about Huminodun
here.
Anyway, today happens to be my birthday too :). I gave my workers a day off today; no work at the farm. So I have free time to update this blog.
So what have we been up to since my last update? Here are some pictures.
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| We have added more vegetable beds on another section of the farm. In total, we have 26 beds now. Our target is 54 beds. |
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| This section is full |
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| Putting up shades to cover the vegetables |
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| Workers transplanting our first 2 batches of 'Pak Tsoi' . Each bed could fit in 300 plants |
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| We are making an outdoor shower area for guests. Communing with nature :P |
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| Wide angle view of the proposed outdoor shower area |
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| Mangoes we harvested |
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| Corns harvested and sold |
Ok. That's all the update for today.
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