Buying corn

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Mar 2, 2026, 2:25:49 PMMar 2
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From Sister Confianza:

Since 2006, Sister Alegria and I have bought corn by the 100 lb sack to eat (tortillas & mush), and to feed to our chickens.  Living here in town the past four years, we are eating less corn ourselves, but continue to feed it to our chickens along with other chicken feed.  I also sell corn and chicken feed at retail, to bring in a little cash and cover our chicken expenses.  (It pays for the eggs we eat!)  When possible, we buy corn from local farmers -- there are harvests in both November and June.  The rest of the time, we buy it in the city.  

Recently, we ran out of corn before I was scheduled to go to Tocoa.  I called up one of the stores there that sells corn and ordered a sack.  I paid for it by depositing money to the store through our bank app on the phone.  Then they loaded the sack onto the bus that was leaving for Limon at 11am.  At 3pm, I took the wheelbarrow about half a mile to the street where the bus comes into town.  I only had to wait a few minutes for it to pull up.  I paid the bus guy 100 lempiras ($4, a bit less than the fare for a person) for transporting it, and he put the sack in the wheelbarrow.  I brought it back to the monastery with just one brief rest for my arms.  A 6-foot long board made a handy ramp so I could bring the wheelbarrow right into the house and deposit the corn to its storage place.  We sold 20 pounds of corn within a day!  

Bendiciones,
Sister Confianza



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