Baby goats bleat in constant search of lost mothers. Workers cultivate a field of corn by hand near Ponesh Solitary shepherds tend small flocks of sheep, goats and cows. They follow behind as the animals graze the unfenced mountainside pastures. Their only companion is usually a dog. We typically see children and old men performing this task, although we occasionally see a woman tending a single cow.
Women cook, clean and raise babies.
They wash the family's clothes by hand. At this time of year they also help the men weed the crops. We see the men cutting the grass by hand and drying it in stacks for hay to feed their animals next winter. A tiny field that would take seconds to cut with modern farm equipment takes days to scythe by hand. It is backbreaking labor.