Field Trip to Waimanalo

     The field trip to Waimanalo reminds me of the time when my brother took me to his work place. He works in American Samoa Land Grant. The imagery of the greenhouse, the pig stall, trees all over the place struck me when we walk around the farm. Its almost as if im walking through the Land Grant work site with my brother telling me about how they are able to contribute to enlarge the site for a better development of Land Grant. Its very much similar to what the tour guide lectured on. He told us that him and the crew are working hard each day for the betterment of the farm they are working on. By the looks of the tour, these people has done a tremendous job with the farm and contributing adequate ways to widen its development. The livestock and crops on the farm as the tour guide explain is a job well done for the workers and hopefully they keep up the good work. The tour guide allows us to take some ulus and avocados if we want to. Ulu and taro are the most common in American Samoa.
     However, by the looks of the farm, a lot of money has been spend on providing some of the equipments that helps get the work done on the farm. They also have a restauraunt called "Sweet Home" happens to serve the best meals. Most of crops used in the restauraunt for meal preparation comes from the farm. I thought this was a brilliant idea, that way no money can be spend on buying food products from other stores. Everything else they need comes from the farm. My brothers work place (Land Grant) does the same but since its a working site (which they do not own) they are able to harvest and give it to store on a price they offer. Whichever store interested to buy it they trade: they get the money, store get the crops. In addition, Land Grant always have a taste-session before they release it. This is held once on harvest week, where they invite people to taste the sample for free and they get feedbacks from the people. I only attended this twice and it was a great experience for me. Everything they put out for the session taste great and ready to be sold. Going on the field trip made me reminisce through old times when i was introduce in a farm site similar to the farm over at Land Grant. As far as the field trip, i had a great time and learn more about agriculture.