I eat Ugandan produce on a daily basis, but I don’t always have the opportunity to see how the food grows. While in Ruhanga I encountered fascinating local agriculture and food preparation.
Banana trees
up close are especially neat looking. I love the strips of color.
Dog. Just kidding, the dog isn’t local food. This dog ate a rotten goat’s head and smelt revolting the entire time I was in Ruhanga.
Rabbit pen and Chicken coop.
G-nuts (a variation of peanuts) grow on trees like these.
Coffee beans.
Pineapple.
Listening to the radio in the kitchen.
In villages such as these, the kitchen is often separate from the home.
Bees are kept in these structures.
This is the home of the local green grower. Funny how in the U.S. they build walls around their grow houses, but in Uganda they just grow really tall bushes.
This tree is wonderfully chimerical. I love how it looks so out of this world.
The real name for corn is maize. Corn is actually a general name for grains such as maize and wheat. Historically, the corn of the Americas was maize, whereas the corn of Europe was wheat. Because Americans became huge producers of maize it became THE corn, and ultimately just called corn.
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