My grandfather bought a farm early in his marriage to my grandmother so that their kid's could have a place to enjoy during the weekends. I have some memories of the farm from when I was little but not many. I do remember that we had a chicken coop (which is still there), a rabbit hutch and a pig pen (both of the later are no longer there). We also had tons of trees that would bear fruit such as apples, oranges, peaches, pomogranate, avocados and other things such as tomotoes, grapes from some small grape vines and some vegetables. There was a lot! In the past years our farm was rented to 2 men that did not take care of our farm and they also did not want our normal care taker living there during their stay so literally all of the fruit bearing trees except one avocado tree began to die from neglect. Once the men left (earlier this year), our normal caretaker and his family moved back in. Our farm now has very few trees in general in the harvesting area, and since trees take a long time to grow, our caretakers had to plant vegetables for this year. We are now growing French Green Beans, Radishes and tomatoes. There are some small patches of other vegetables but those are the main ones. It was still nice to see our farm though it no longer looks like it did in my memories and youth. It needs a lot of care and work but hopefully it will shine once again soon. Here are some of the pictures that I took...
Katrina on the front stairs to the main house and the caretaker Pedro on the left. The smaller house on the left is a second house.
The lone avocado tree :(
My artsy shot
Inside the main house
Don't know why, but I think this chicken is mad at me...
Cute little guy
Nothing like fresh homemade tortillas! The caretakers wife was making lunch for her family and was nice enough to offer us some tortillas.
Katrina with the caretaker's grandchildren that also live on our farm.
More of the caretaker's dogs
This guy wanted to play
Big stretch
We are still amazed to see women walk around with big heavy objects balanced on their head. In this case, she had a jug filled with water and she said that she makes 4 trips for water every few hours. We have a small well/room filled with water.
I spy with my little eye...a machette...
She was rolling down the car path on a single roller blade...it was cute.
The view from our farm.
This tree was planted by my late grandmother. It is said that this tree will not grow in Guatemala due to the climate but over 30 years have passed and it is still there.
The rest are scenic shots taken from the car as we were driving to and from the farm.
Lots of mountains everywhere
Silhouette of a mountain
How pretty was this part of the drive?!
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