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| Onions and hay in Tsalaskuri |
My hostess, Nely; her son; and I took a little field trip to the small village of Tsalaskuri. This was Nely's family's home. Nely's cousin runs an impressive agricultural and manufacturing enterprise, employing dozens of Georgians in this very depressed economy.
Tsalaskuri is just outside the Tbilisi city limits, which continues to grow and subsume what used to be independent villages.
In addition to visiting, Nely's aim was to bring back tomatoes and onions from the village farm, which she will prepare for winter consumption in the form of tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes, etc.
En route to Tsalaskuri, we took a different road out of Rustavi than I knew. I liked the panoramic view of the plain and the mountain foothills.
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| Near Rustavi, Georgia |
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| Near Rustavi, Georgia |
Nely's cousin lives in a large house within a compound, with his wife, mother, and two sons. We looked at what I'll call the farm kitchen, in an outbuilding, which included a large storage room and various food projects underway.
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| Cheese-making, Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
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| Cheese-making, Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
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| Cheese-making, Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
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| Canning, Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
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| Drying, Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
My hostess noticed an old lamp used by her mother when Nely was a little girl:
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| Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
When we went back outside, we noticed a cow peeking into the courtyard entry:
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| Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
She, along with her colleagues, were coming home from a day in the pasture, ready to be let into their respective side yards for the night.
We also went to look at Nely's cousins fields. His sons and a friend of theirs were there, loading bags of onions onto a truck.
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| Tsalaskuri, Georgia |
Nely's cousin has installed two ponds on his land, which he will use to raise fish for the market.
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