Tim Taylor – Volunteer with LPTM, Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia September 2008 – March 2009 Motivation for Volunteering I had time available to travel to a part of the world I had never visited. I wanted to do something good for the environment, and had always enjoyed working outside planting trees and plants. In England I …
21 December 2008 Tim Taylor Digging the holes The field is sloping south east. The soil is thick whiteish clay; when it is the dry season the ground is baked hard and very difficult to dig. But this is the wet season (musim hujan) where the soil is easier to dig, but then the hole …
Planting Bitti Trees in Pandala (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) for LPTM Read More »
23/12/2008 There’s a definite pecking order where I live. First there is the big cock of the roost, 2 enormous yellow feet, long neck, red comb, glittering black-ringed yellow eye, fancy tail feathers gleaming metallic blue and green. He is too big for the others so they all defer to him. There are 2 smaller …
The Pecking Order. By Tim Taylor, Volunteer with LPTM, South Sulawesi, Indonesia 2008-09 Read More »
13 December 2008 Pak picked me up at 5.30am for an early start to Pandala. Normally on our Friday trips to Pandala he is in a light-hearted mood, picking up the Pak Baha Number 2 and the Bitti trees, a time of relaxation and jokes and light hearted banter. He often sang ‘I’m going to …
Tim Taylor: Volunteer with LPTM from England, December 2008 These are my notes of living with a village family while I planted trees for LPTM. I stayed in the house of Pak Sudarman (Pak Darman) and his family – his wife Suryani (Suri), daughter Mariati 10 yrs, son Ali 3 yrs and baby Aldi 7 …