Fertilizing With Elephant Poo

 

A mixture of manure, straw and mud is dried in the field under the hot sun. Volunteers shovel it into baskets and then transport it to garden areas to fertilize the soil there. Since the sun dried the mixture so quickly, sometimes it seemed like there were more rocks and straw than manure.

I felt like this was one of the harder jobs because it happens in the afternoon and there is no shade. We took a lot of breaks and didn’t work as long as other afternoon chores. There was always the dip in the river to look forwards to after.

Elephants sometimes walked past so we had to keep an eye out for mischievous ones. They liked to see what we’re doing. Probably wondered why we were so dirty and smelled bad. haha

Photographs taken by: Stefanie Sattler