The Veggie Run

While the Yoga Farm has the Yoga bit downpat, the Farm bit is still struggling to pull its weight. It is a tough climate to grow many of the vegetables we commonly consume and much of the veggie garden is used for trying to grow things like cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, peas. However, it is notoriously difficult to grow these things here. For that reason, twice a week when the veggie truck rolls up to the Mini Super down in Punta Banco, Yoga Farm send down some volunteers with Momo the horse to pick up the supplies. Additional non-perishables are also ordered this way and brought up on Momo. If it is a really big order, Chirco (the other horse) goes along as well.

So yesterday I decided to help do the veggie run. We saddled up Momo and led him down the hill. Greg tried to ride him for a while but Momo really hates the hill (along with every other living creature) and so just stops at the side and eats. Momo ended up being pulled down against his wishes.

The routine is you get to Mini Super, grab a beer and wait for the truck to arrive. This can be anywhere from 3pm to 5pm. Yesterday it was about 3.30pm – just after we finished our beer on the viewing deck.

My contribution to the entire exercise was settling the bill with the veggie truck guy using my slowly developing Spanish. Oh, and giving Momo a few yanks to get him down the hill.

It turned out that the order included huge bags of feed for the horses and the dogs so we were advised to try and pay someone to drive us up the hill. Amazingly this went smoothly, there was someone there willing and able to take us for five dollars. I really did not want to try getting up that hill on wheels. Most drivers wouldn’t contemplate it. There is no stopping, just hammer up there as fast as you can without falling down the ravine to the side. I suppose it is a bit like going on one of those really rough jerky bumpy rides at Luna Park, straight after a greasy hamburger and a beer for lunch.