waste on the farm...

i thought thought i was doing a pretty good job at controlling the amount of waste i produced while living in ames, however my perspective is starting to change.  what food we do consume as a group is then split into seperate buckets, one for the chancos (pigs), one for the worm composte, and one for the general compost (citrus).  paper is placed in a basket hanging near the stove which we use to start fires for cooking.  small plastics are placed inside botteas plasticos, which will be used in building projects to come.  plastic bags are extrememly valuable and are washed and reused daily. i.e. they are placed under tortillas as to keep them from sticking to the wood table top when rolling.
there are (hay) dos chanchos (pigs) on the farm and hay feed twice daily from our dinner/breakfast and lunch wastes.  i can say with almost full confidence that they are the happiest and best feed chanchos on the island.  the male is large enough to slaughter and we are planning on having a pig roast sometime in the weeks to come.  i believe there are four birthdays on the farm the first and second week of june warenting a grand feast.
today holly and i finished the bamboo bed and proceeded to help dig a garbage hole for those hard to dispose of plastics that will need time to decompose.
it's my first friday on the farm and we finish work at 11am instead of noon.  today i will be learning how to make baskets with don fidel, who is apparently a fantastic story teller and wonderful man who is 87 years old and has lived his entire life on the island.  i'm really excited to have a basket that i can use to harvest seeds, as i've spoted some okra in the lower garden whose pods are ready to disperse its seed.