The theme for WordPress’ weekly photo challenge this week is “Simple”.
That made me think of this photo I took when I lived in a small village in Nepal. The local farmers were busy planting rice in order to take advantage of all the water that pours down during rainy season.
- Nepalese tractor. No need to worry about any carbon footprint…
Here’s my Nepalese neighbors busy on the rice paddies: their method & tools are simple, eco-friendly, brilliant & ancient.
Other bloggers interpretations:
Cardinal Guzman 
Good choice for this week’s theme! Great photo!
Takker og bukker Britten 🙂
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perfect choice, it is so good to remember the simple ways … and yes hard work, but how much more satisfying at the end of the day! thanks for the pingback 🙂
Simple ways and hard work doesn’t kill the planet, like a lot of modern agriculture do.
good take on this week
Thanks Jo. I couldn’t help but notice that we have a similar take on this weeks challenge.
I think many of us think about when life was simpler quite a bit…
I believe you’re right.
A simple life within a complicated world that brings such hardship. Great photo
Thanks jfb 🙂
Great entry for this week topic 🙂
Glad you like it Jake. Thanks for commenting.
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Ploughing- simple, good one, 😉 http://wp.me/p1j16x-3p
Hard work, simple technique.
Perfect choice for this week’s theme. The photo depicts simple living, yet it also shows how hard working the farmer is.
Thanks for the link! Have a great weekend! 🙂
Thank you very much Gracie. Have a great week! (unfortunately the weekend is coming to an end)
What a beautiful photo. And what a reminder that things can be done simply.
Sometimes simplicity can be genious 🙂
Excellent choice for this weeks theme…
Thanks Mike & congrats with “photo of the year”!
My oh my Cardinal, you have lived in so many different places and have been exposed to so many different cultures. Wow! Margie
Thanks Margie. I lived in this small village in Nepal for 3 months: in a small stone house equipped with only the basics (one lamp, a tiny kitchen, some painting equipment, a radio & some of books). I shared the house with a bunch of rats that kept running around during nights as they were looking for food.
It was an interesting experience.
Perhaps I’ll write a post about it some day, or translate the article that I wrote a few years back…
Nice. because this is simple / the basics in fact as without food we die!
Food is a necessity, plus it can be very tasty!
The simple life of man and beast, lovely shot!
Thanks Patti. It was interesting to be able to see this part of the world we live in.
oh wow, the irony!
simple indeed – looks like a lot of hard, manual labour to go from planting to harvesting.
thanks for sharing this poignant post.
HIs job is definitely harder than mine. More important as well!
Very simple indeed. You are lucky to have been able to see this in person, and then to share it with so many others.
Thanks Kathy. Yes I am. It was truly interesting to live with the Nepalese.
Nice “Simple” interpretation. “Green” too. Best of both worlds.
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Thanks Joe. Post more tech tutorials please 🙂 I love that stuff.
Heyyy….thats like in my village….my grandpa did that for living 🙂
“He worked hard for the money, so hard for the money” *singing* 😀
Maybe no carbon footprint, but methane 😉
I love your nepaleese tractors!
Don’t forget: this tractor is also edible!
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I love it! great photo and great pic for the theme 🙂
Thanks Brenda, have a wonderful day!
How much knowledge and hard work does one need to do something so simple! Thanks for illustrating it. Makes my job look easy! Thanks for visiting my site and for the ping back.
I guess the best part of his job is waiting for the harvest 🙂
Perhaps in the meantime there are small machines in use too (like here) which are doing the work faster and louder. And it’s not always so romantic like it looks (they are burning the rest after the harvest) because they have absolutly no ecological intentions.
Still I guess it’s more eco-friendly than a lot of the big-scale industrial farming with chemicals etc. The work they are doing on this picture is definitely not romantic – just hard labour.
Times without chemicals are long gone too. No chance to get a good harvest without. There’s a big gap between how those pictures are seen by urban westerners and 3rd world reality.
Yes, you’re probably right: Monsanto is busy poisoning the world & getting rich doing it.
I read somewhere that if everyone ate organic food, we wouldn’t have enough food to feed the planet, because there’s just too many mouths to feed.
At the market it was possible to buy DDT insecticide on a spray-can: it’s totally banned in the West, so the western companies continues to sell their products in third-world countries instead, where the laws are still non-existent and/or the legislation is more “flexible”.
That’s how it is. We tried here to use organic fertilizer but it’s too compiicated. The farmers don’t understand why they should change their behaviour.