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Chestnuts Creating Community
#### “Boss, kha. Can help Ooh? I see her crying in the street yesterday. Her husband beat her because they have no money. Big rain 3 days ago wash away her vegetable seeds.”

There is something up-close-and-very-personal about Asian village life that makes it almost impossible to close your heart. Ooh grows and sells vegetables on the corner of the little soi (laneway) across from our [Pure Thai Naturals](www.purethainaturals.com) production building. I buy fresh greens and limes from her most everyday, knowing full-well that she has no money for chemicals and everything she grows in the street across from ours is seasonal, local and organic. On a good day she sells 200 baht (about USD$6). Trouble is, she’s Chinese, and many of the local Thai ladies don’t buy from her.

We watch her. It’s painful to see some days, when hours go by and her greens wilt, and the local people buy fried-fast-food-palm-oil curries from the awful Muslim shop 25 metres away, and don’t give her fresh vegetables a second glance

“Boss, kha. You like one?” (hands me a steamed chestnut). “Ooh can get for you!” 
I went to Ooh and offered her 50 baht advance, for chestnuts. She declined. 
“I find and bring you”, she said in very broken Thai. “If you like, you can buy. Good price.” 

And so yesterday, Ooh came. Unannounced, Thai style. 

![Chestnut3.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/artemislives/oZCn5UYX-Chestnut3.jpg)

![Chestnut1.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/artemislives/RHMfNboc-Chestnut1.jpg)

![Chestnut2.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/artemislives/9u3OSinI-Chestnut2.jpg)

Like all good Asian business, it was conducted squatting on our front porch. Ooh laid all her chestnuts on the porch and Sii, our worker (on the left) checked them for quality. They came from her friend's tree.  It would have been disrespectful to buy without checking the quality. Ooh is not asking for charity, just a chance to sell high quality organic to us at a fair price. 

There were 7 mutt (bunches) and enough loose ones that we agreed it was 8.

“Suu mot”. I said. “Buy them all. My daughter love. Please bring your basket again next week.”
120 baht. About USD $4. 

And so, we are eating steamed chestnuts. Very moreish. Healthy. Wholesome and good for the soul beyond their nutritional and taste value. 

![Chestnut4.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/artemislives/SEevIluR-Chestnut4.jpg)

I saw Ooh tonight as I came home, and I bought 15 fresh rain-soaked limes from her. 
“Not beautiful,” she said sadly, pointing to the blemished limes.
“Very juicy!” I replied. “We want juice and good taste, not pretty.”
She smiled and the world felt like a much better place. 
“*Not forget my chestnuts next week!*” I called over my shoulder, and she positively beamed.

My challenge? The chestnut pods!!

![Chestnut5.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/artemislives/KF8NHeuf-Chestnut5.jpg)

They’re GORGEOUS and such a stunning colour! Surely there’s a use for them? They’re far too pretty to compost! 

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@anggreklestari ·
In Indonesia now its difficult season to harvesting so it would be difficult income. 

Oh the nuts looks great. I never eat them befor
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@artemislives ·
Thank you for the cake and helpie-curation @priyanarc   Hope things are easier for you this week.  x
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@riverflows ·
It must be chestnut season! One of my EAL girls (Hong Kong) came in with a bag the other day. 'What are you eating, Avril?' I ask (because I'm not the kind of teacher that says: 'don't eat in class'!!) and it was a big bag of chestnuts. She was waxing lyrical about them - she'd been in Melbourne city and there was a woman selling chestnuts and she was sooooo excited and the woman realised that and gave her extra. It reminded her of home. Bless. 
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@artemislives ·
Chestnut season is just starting here in Northern Thailand an yes, they're all over Southern China.  NOT that Hong Kong is vaguely part of China LOL....   They're delish and pivotal in so much Cantonese cuisine.  GLORIOUS huge trees!!
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@senattor ·
Hello
Life is not fair for many, it is bad.
I ate roasted chestnuts at the stake, very tasty.
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@artemislives ·
Oooh - I had not thought of putting them on a bamboo stake-stick.  Clever.  And yes, easy to roast that way.  
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@riverflows ·
At the stake? 

they are tasty. I have eaten a nice Spanish soup with chestnuts and chorizo and smoked paprika. 
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@wakeupkitty.pal ·
You van make art out of it or keep the woodstove burning with it.


Everywhere men beat up women or people fight. Not only in villages. Through the walls of an appartment or a villa you can hear it too. People prefer to stay blind and deaf find it normal.

Let that guy find a job, work hard like a man should do and beat him up...that will teach him some respect. 

No respect for all those watchers, they are all guilty of the same crime.
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@artemislives ·
We focus on constructive solutions as best we can - giving her the means to support herself and her child so SHE can make decisions.  Domestic violence is NEVER ok but also far more complex than most people appreciated.  The man needs not to be "beaten and taught respect" but understood also and shown how to channel feelings of profound isolation and frustration.  *She will leave when she is empowered.*
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