On June 2nd, I purchased 4 hectares of farmland for 320,000 pesos (approximately 650,000 yen).
On June 4th, we had 10 workers come in to help with the job of cutting down undergrowth and unwanted trees.
And today, the eight of us family members went out to work, splitting into two cars.
The photo shows only a small portion of the 4 hectares.
They gather the cut grass and coconut leaves, pile them up, and set them on fire.
Both Lily and Loroy are being smoked.
The workers managed to completely clear the undergrowth from a 4-hectare plot of land in just three days.
And he did it all using only an axe, without even using a gas-powered cutter or chainsaw...
When I suggested to Gigi that we buy a machine, he rejected it with a 'We don't need them. Their wages are far cheaper.'.
Gian lights a fire on a parched coconut leaf and then goes to start another fire on a pile of grass.
Grass exposed to the strong sun every day bursts into flames in an instant.
Is this also considered CO2 emission?
But it's just the trees naturally releasing the carbon dioxide they've collected...