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Typical home garden of rural Cambodians, not just a garden!     Home garden may sound like a fun thing to do, for city people who love to plant tiny plants, flowers and stuff like that.  Home garden for Cambodian, especially those who live in countryside means a whole lot difference. Rural Cambodians are typical called farmers because of the farmland they live on but farms here in Cambodia can mean two things: First, farmers ( អ្នកស្រែ/កសិករ ) who grow rice on farms. Besides rice field that collect the yield once or twice a year, these people would grow some trees in the garden at home just to feed the family.   This post here will talk specially about this case. Second, farmers ( អ្នកចំការ/កសិករ ) who plant commercial agricultural products to sell at a larger scale. Home garden   has enormous functions​, is for feeding the family because the majority of the plants are edible and as food, the bigger plants are mostly fruit trees that give yields to the owners - some even could manage t

Continue from my   previous article about edible plants , this post is specially made for plants from the wild which grow naturally and people go to collect their products for daily consumptions. Barringtonia ​(Cocky apple, Kra doon, Slow Match Tree, Wild Guava)​​, picked up fresh from the wild (LG. Sophia_20) Wild spider flower, Spider Flower   Peacock's mushroom Cardamom Tree from Cardamom Mountain for stir fry! Teuk Kreung (Asian Mackerel Vegetable Dip Sauce) - besides Cambodian noodle, this dish also needs lot of side vegetables to go with. The guy just got off the Wild Guava tree for picking up the leaves for his evening meal The guy went up to the tree to pick its young leaves Sadly, my phone cannot take clear photo of the tree The fruit of Edible willugbeia (Willughbeia edulis) in its season between May - sold on the street in Siem Reap Pumpkin leaves boiled to go with other dish including Teuk Kreung (Asian Mackerel Vegetable Dip Sauce) Another dish to go with side vegetabl