I took these photos last week when I helped teach these two wonderful people how to make Shitake mushrooms logs. Leknath (64) and Gita (60) are stellar farmers: they produce hundreds of kilos of cinnamon bark and leaf for commercial sale, they have 4-5 avocado trees around their land (one even started to bear fruit this year – which means I’m going to teach them how to make guacemole!), they have a highly successful Moringa tree which they use to feed their family and give seeds to neighbors, and Leknath has even tried grafting, which is a a highly skilled technique through which you take a scion from a desired plant (like almond) and bind it onto the rootstock of a compatible other plant (like wild plum) – and once it mends, even though the base of that plant is one type (like wild plum), the plant will produce the nuts from the scion (like almonds)!