Yesterday we went to Bo Tree Pepper Farm near Kampot, Cambodia. We took a tuk-tuk there but it was not a very comfortable ride because the dirt road had so many bumps and potholes. But it had nice scenery. When we finally arrived we were assigned a guide. Our guide was named Teddy, he was on Work Away. Work Away is a program where you do work for someone like build a fence or take care of a child and that person gives you free room and board. Teddy volunteered to be a tour guide at a pepper farm. First, Teddy gave us different kinds of pepper to taste, regular black, Kampot red, Kampot white, and Kampot black. My favourite was the Kampot red, Kampot black was too spicy. Then he took us around the farm to show us the process of making pepper. First we saw the pepper vines, the vines were grown around small brick towers that supported them. But Teddy said that they now use wood poles for the vines because apparently it helps the plant grow more “berries” and they wanted to use organic material. Each little stem was filled with little pepper “berries”. Black pepper was made from green pepper “berries” red was made from red “berries” and white was made from red with the skin peeled off. You can see the “berries in picture No. 3.
This is a bunch of peppers drying, almost ready to be boiled and made into pepper.
These are Red Pippali peppers, I did not try these because they were supposed to be very spicy. Here you can see the cycle except red. Green, yellow, green, darker green, red. They are ripe when they turn red.
This is me walking behind Teddy through rows and rows of pepper plants. After we took the tour we went swimming, it was awesome!! We also had lunch there, we had Amok, a Khmer dish with fish, and pineapple beef. It had a lot of pepper. It was scrumptious. Then we bought some red and white pepper for a souvenir. It was an awesome day at Bo Tree pepper farm.
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