Comments on: Godspeed, you palm sap vendor

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:44:24 +0000

I remember seeing a campaign somewhere to try to get people to stop chopping down the palms for charcoal/timber during the drought. Obviously not hugely successful.

By: Maytel

Maytel — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:14:33 +0000

I know it perhaps seems a trivial observation to most but the signifance of the humble palm tree dawned on me when I first arrived in Cambodia and there was drought conditions over much of the country. As a result farmers had taken to cutting down the trees to sell the timber, meaning they were cutting what is essentially a cash cow, meaning that each palm tree is a form of stored wealth and also a significant signal of the health of the agricultural sector

By: Maytel

Maytel — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:10:41 +0000

the thing that is of persistent fascination to me when you look out across a seemingly endless vista of rice fields and palm trees is that each and every tree jutting out over the vast expanse of countryside is owned and accounted for…

By: Deathpower in Cambodia » Blog Archive » Palm Wine

Deathpower in Cambodia » Blog Archive » Palm Wine — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:26 +0000

[...] The always excellent Phnomenon has just blogged a short piece about Palm Sap. It is indeed hard to get good palm sap (or palm wine, which is the same thing after a few hours) in the city – it doesn’t take long for the wine to turn into vinegar. [link] [...]