Cassava harvest, come see the happiest!

In Vietnam rural, sweet potatoes and cassava are the popular farm produces and can be valued as a “back-up” for rice during difficult days. Beginning of September is the time for harvesting cassava in Thanh Toàn village, located 7km from Huế center. We have the privilege to join the farmers on the fields, witness how they practice Kungfu to pull up the cluster of cassava from the hard soil, and admire their faces brightened up and laughs of fulfillments when seeing a fatty bunch of cassava. Sharing spirit and community solidarity have made their hard life simply easier. What’s a great harvest! Everyone is happy.
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Cassava is called “Sắn” in Huế, Northern and Central region, or “Khoai mì” in the South. The newly harvested cassava can be steamed cooked and is nice to dip in broken salty peanut, and accompany with some green (ginger) tea. It can also be mashed or ground to have flour and is used to make glutinous paste cakes. For longer stock, cassava is sliced cut and dried under the sun. In the winter days, it becomes the savior source of nutrition. Elderly Vietnameses who lived through the subsidy period remember well the hard days, when they have to eat rice mixed cassava for every meal, and most of the time, rice was just very little, like a cherry on the cake.
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We would like to share with you some photos of our happy farmers after a good harvest. But if you want to experience the planting of cassava (activities varied depending on the season) then join our Rice and Rural Life Immersion in Thanh Toàn village. Obviously, you will have a working-but-enjoying day like a local farmer. Sharing some connecting moments and conviviality over a tea-break with steamed cassava, sweet potatoes… ginger tea and more fun.
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