Our first week at Enca Farm

We have picked a very nice place to settle in to for the next six
weeks. It's a very nice location about an hour form Baguio. To get
here we took a jeepney from Baguio to the small town of Acop where
Marilyn one of the sisters of the family farm has a house which we can
stay at when she has a spare room. From there we either take a jeep or
walk down a very steep mountain road to a river valley then walk up
the other side of the valley for about ten minutes to arrive at the
farm. Marilyn told us during our correspondence with that we would be
staying in a hut. This is the nicest "hut" I have ever seen. It has a
small kitchen and an en suite bathroom. We have a constant supply of
water about thirty feet from our door except when it's diverted to
water crops. Outside our front door there is a lime tree and a nice
flower bed. We are enjoying the work here. We have gathered dry leaves
to start a compost pile, then we weeded, prepared and planted corn and
snow pea terraces. One of my highlights of staying here so far was
during our farm tour Olive, Marilyn's sister pointed out some small
cherry tomatoes that grow wild here at the farm. They are delicious
like wild strawberries at home. We are able to cook when we want but
so far we have enjoyed shared meals with the other guests and Olive.
Tonight was our turn to cook so we gathered up a bag of wild tomato's
and made a vegetarian chili with various other herbs and vegetables we
found on the farm. There is no electricity or running water here so it
feels a lot like camping except for the big fancy cabin. Most Sundays
for our day off we plan to leave the farm and either stay at Marilyn's
house in Acop or take a jeepney into Baguio pick up things we run out
and enjoy the city for the day.