It's HOT!

Mark and I are at Heifer Ranch in Perryville Ar. We moved in our appartment on Sunday afternoon and started our learing on Monday morning. It is a really cool place and the ideas are GREAT. Heifer goes into villages in poverty countries and teaches several people how to care and feed animals properly. The donated animal is given to one family and then the first born female is given to another family that has taken the training. Usually it is a single woman with a family or grandparents who are raising grandchildren because of death the the parents.
There are 12 cornerstones of Heifer,
Passing on the gift
Accountability
Sharing and Caring
Sustainability and Self-reliance
Improved Animal Management
Nurtition and Income
Gender and Family Focus
Genuine Need and Justice
Improving the Environment
Full Participation
Training and Education
Sprirituality

The Headquarters are in Little Rock and it is a "Green" building.

Here on the ranch we have homes for students to live in and to learn how impoverished people in Guatemala, Thailand, Urban Slums, Aplachia, Zambie and Tibet live. The students are given the type and amount of food eat the people in that country. They are given enough food for one day. It is an eye opening experence when you are only given a few cups of rice to feed 10 people. Guatemala students are given a garden to pick produce from and a chicken or rabbit.

One of the programs they have here is where children milk goats, make the milk into cheese, then grind grain into flour and make a pizza in an oven made of bricks and fuled by chopping down trees and making a fire in the oven.

I milked a goat yesterday and I am planning on going to the barn to milk again today.

Most of what we eat at lunch time is from the farm. Yesterday it was pork chops, green beans, mashed potatoes, cantalope. Today it was chicken, rice, brocoli and cantalope. We can eat for free noon meals Mon.- Fri.

All for now from the Ranch