A Day in the Country

Last Friday I took a trip to the country with my friends Leon & Kevin with Kevin's co-worker to pick fruit. We rode our bikes, Leon and I on our electric bikes and Kevin and his friend on bicycles. We visited a cherry farm and an elderly women's farm. The elderly women's farm grew many kinds of fruits and vegetables, pumpkin, lettuce, strawberries, apples, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, apple pears, pears, the list goes on. It was a great day and really fun to see a traditional country Chinese home. 

Locals washing their clothes in the river.
Many Chinese don't have a washer and dryer in their home.

 Picking cherries with the farmer. 

Traditional Chinese kitchen. The adjacent room is the living/bedroom.
The platform is the bed. In the winter coals used to cook dinner are placed
under the platform to keep the bed warm. There isn't any heating in the home.

Courtyard 

Poppy seeds

Kevin the elderly farmer and me.

Homemade wine, a.k.a moonshine

Organic cucumber

An uncovered well, definitely a hazard for anyone walking
along who doesn't know there is a well there.

Locals cleaning cloth after making tofu noodles.

The cherry farmer's house.

Goat. I understand the goat was purchased for the farmer to milk
for Kevin's friend. He left with a pint of goat's milk for $3.00.