Part 5 Long House Stay: Learn from The Environment.
During my stay at the Long House, one afternoon Lembak (One of the relative) invited me to visit her farm,which She visits seasonaly. It was a hill which was surrounded by, fruit trees such as Cempedak, Jack fruit , Breadfruit, Rambutan and Banana trees. She even had planted few types of turmeric. Her daughter and her grandchild taught me how to find edible shoots, stems, flowers and leaves. They plucked few edible stems and shoots and asked me to try, those taste sweet and sour. On our way back to the long house they showed to me the other long house residents farms, some grow their crops intensively and some just as past time!! i said seasonally because, Those trees bear fruits according t season, only cempedak and rambutan bear fruit through out the year. She said around March Those trees full of fruits and they just eat as they like daily. One of the...