The village used to be a place that was left behind, as young adults headed for work in the city, leaving their parents and young children at home. There's a parallel here to the situation in my home country, China, as Baan Rai Kong Khing's past mirrors that of many rural villages in China.The lack of industrial development and education cause a deficiency in job opportunities and income resources, forcing people to leave their hometowns to become cheap labourers elsewhere.

Knowing where our food came from seemed to make the food taste better - it was a sense of knowing what we have is from the earth, and that we were only taking what we needed.