Have your class research other regions of the word whose staple is maize. Find out the staple food of your Volunteer's host country. Ask him or her to describe the ways this food is grown and prepared. Some parts have more than one use. Growing maize happens the same way every year in Lesotho.
Boys plow the fields with oxen.
Everybody helps cut the maize with curved blades called scythes. Study this school lunch menu from Lesotho. Macmillan Education Ltd., 1991.