Five percent of their annual harvest will be set aside as seeds for next year's planting. So does it make sense to choose the very best? Enter stage right: Eliza the mamengo. On harvest day, her job is to walk ahead of the pack and select the biggest, healthiest, and most vigorous-looking seed bunches. The cream of the crop. This ensures next year's harvest will have all the qualities of the best, and none of the worst. It's a practice handed-down through the generations. Darwin would be proud. Enjoy.
(Pixel-peepers: To isolate your story amidst a busy composition, try using the biggest opening on your lens. The resulting narrow depth-of-field will leave your main subject in stark focus, while blurring everything else around it. Bokeh-licious.)
Errata: Cababuyan is in Hingyon, not Banaue as the photo caption indicates.
Errata: Cababuyan is in Hingyon, not Banaue as the photo caption indicates.
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