farmland slopes at the edge of a heavily cultivated valley.
Autumn farmland. Crops have been harvested before winter frosts arrive.
harvested farmland, no waitng for winter, then the Spring growing season. Rice is only cropped once a year.
most farms in this valley have mixed cropping, both to sustain a balanced peasant diet and to provide some cash income.
valley farming, October 2001.
rice stooks waiting to be collected from the fields. October 2001.
my host, who grew up on a peasant farm, had strong memories of dirt roads like this, promising in the untraveled distance, a link with outside worlds.
flowers in autumn. It seemed to me that this was a time of year for sentiment, perhaps romance, in Korea.