Our home in Baomahun is nestled in the beautiful Kangari Hills. Being one of the higher elevations, the locals have named our small five acre homestead “Mission Mountain.” We have no electricity, our “running” water is from a water tower which uses simple gravity to supply our home, we have no cell phone service, we have no internet. Due to lack of safe, nutritious food, we raise goats, chickens, and maintain a garden to supplement our diet of rice and dried beans. We do not view these circumstances as sacrifices but rather as challenges to be met with a spirit of adventure. To give you a view of daily life, this page will feature photos from our home and personal life
Transplanting quail grass which is not actually a grass, it is a member of the amaranth family and is a tropical substitute for spinach.Our pineapple bed with sun hemp planted as a ground cover for erosion control and soil improvement. The mulched row in the foreground has paw-paw seeds planted in it.Garden and Classroom Evening Dragonflies
Our pineapple bed with sun hemp planted as a ground cover for erosion control and soil improvement. The mulched row in the foreground has paw-paw seeds planted in it.
Garden and Classroom
The pineapples are all ones that we have started ourselves. This is our first one to bear fruit.
Evening Dragonflies
Bug on a Banana Blossom
Baomahun at dawn
Looking from the top of Mission Mountain down to our classroom
In front of the “Tay-Quee” (Mende for “chicken house”)
Banana trees with Mango saplings in the front
Newly hatched chicks
Daisy, part of our breeding stock, is my favorite goat
During the rainy season storms come in fast and furious over the Kangari Hills. This was taken from the top of our hill looking out over the town.
