Harvest the himalayas as a volunteer with the ladakh farm project

“He live here? I don’t know.”

possibly recent years have made things easier on many Ladakhis, that the drip of money has made life easier, has been an improvement. Tashi’s son will expect a higher standard of life, and then?

Tashi’s hard life and visual perception the world of Leh has made him very money conscious and worried that there isn’t sufficiency. The household is sleeping in the storage room, having rented out all the other rooms.

When Chris and I leave Hemis we hike out to the road and hitch a ride with a man returning from college to Leh for the vacation. He asked what we were doing in Ladakh and we said that we were workings on a farm. “Oh, to teach Ladakhis proper agriculture methods?”

“No, to learn how Ladakhis have farmed in an ecologically sustainable mode for so long.”

“But your state is so advanced and we are so back. You have machines and we must do everything by hand.”

We tried explaining that development and mechanisation wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but he remained skeptical.