The orchards in Phunom are on hills with at least a 50 degree
slope. Almost impossible to walk up or
down. The trees are pretty short so they
didn’t need a lot of pruning.
The road to Phunom from either Teddim or Kalay, is on the top of
the ridge, shale; and there are landsides everywhere. You can see where the road has fallen off or
is starting to move. The road is 2 lanes
but mainly ½ a lane. So you get to drive
…very… close… to… the side of the road, and in looking down, it is a long, way
to the bottom of the canyon. In most
places, the bottom is ½ to over a mile straight down.
We drove the road six times without any incidents.
Now Phunom village is on one of these hillsides. Along the roadway, houses are built on stilts
so the houses can hang over the edge of the road. Some had a 30 foot drop.
I was told there would be 35 in the classes. 40-47 showed up. So the last day, everyone got a grafting
knife. I had to pull out every knife I had
since there were 12 extra people. There
were 5 villages so each village got a Corona saw. I only brought three pruners so the host, the
interpreter and the local Extension agent got a long handled pruner that they
were to SHARE with others. The people
were happy campers.
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