{"id":1553,"date":"2013-10-17T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebackpackingbear.com\/blog\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2015-02-08T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:52:14","slug":"joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Louis learns how to grow rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>See what other blogs are saying about Living Lands Farm in Luang Prabang:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My bare feet squelched uncomfortably in the mud beneath me, and the milky grey water rose up to lap at my knees. With one hand on the plow, and another holding the reins, I tried to convince myself that I really was in control of the beast before me. My efforts aside, Susan the water buffalo seemed to already know the way by heart, and started leading us in a long circle around the field. Trusting in her expertise, I was thankfully left to focus my attention on not falling face-first into the mud.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.straytravel.asia\/2013\/07\/30\/living-land-farm-luang-prabang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stray Asia Travel Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few years ago, Laut Lee\u00a0also started teaching travelers how rice is grown, harvested, and cooked. \u00a0On a warm, sunny morning, he explained that everything on the farm is done sustainably, organically, and by hand, the way it had been done for generations. \u00a0We\u2019d learn 14 steps in all and were encouraged to participate in the fields throughout the whole process.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/thegirlandglobe.com\/planting-rice-on-the-living-land-farm-in-laos\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl and the Globe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; See what other blogs are saying about Living Lands Farm in Luang Prabang: &#8220;My bare feet squelched uncomfortably in the mud beneath me, and the milky grey water rose up to lap at my knees. With one hand on the plow, and another holding the reins, I tried to convince myself that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[172,1277,175,177,240,281],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Growing Rice on Living Lands Farm: Backpacking Bear<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learning the fourteen steps required to make rice on the Living Lands Farm in Luang Prabang, Laos\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Growing Rice on Living Lands Farm: Backpacking Bear\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Learning the fourteen steps required to make rice on the Living Lands Farm in Luang Prabang, Laos\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Backpacking_Bear_Laos-13.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@backpackingbear\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@backpackingbear\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"joelouis\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Backpacking Bear\",\"description\":\"Shared experiences from a well traveled teddy :)\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Backpacking_Bear_Laos-13.jpg\",\"width\":1936,\"height\":1936},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/\",\"name\":\"Growing Rice on Living Lands Farm: Backpacking Bear\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-10-17T12:45:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-02-08T15:52:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/32681e57fe899cc9368d7ad45ad82f1d\"},\"description\":\"Learning the fourteen steps required to make rice on the Living Lands Farm in Luang Prabang, Laos\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-grows-rice-on-living-lands-farm\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/32681e57fe899cc9368d7ad45ad82f1d\",\"name\":\"joelouis\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/609d4b3a3efee7ba3eaf84cd87fffa84?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"joelouis\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}