Tuesday 2 June 2009

greetings from wheat country

hi everyone.
just a quick note to tell you all i have found my home. i am so loving this place, the farm the community, the weather, the wine and cheese!
for being out in the sticks it is amazingly progressive, there are allot of young people doing innovative things in agriculture and allot of talk about localizing the food economy and organic conversion of the wheat fields.
for me, i have designed and installed a big market garden with every vegg, melon and flower you can imagine. i have endless amounts of the most delicious compost at my beck and call. i milks 100 sheep and goats 2 times per week, and they are a joy.
we are making 9 different cheeses for now, 3 fresh cheeses, 4 soft aged cheeses, 1 hard and 1 pure sheep's cheese as well as gillato ice cream and Popsicles, selling duck and chicken eggs and more.
and the best part is on sat. and sun. i run the cheese and wine tasting room. we are open to the public and people come to learn about what we are doing and why and sample all the goods. this, as you can imagine is so fun. i have my own personal bar and steer the conversation to bio dynamic and sustainable agriculture at every chance. i have perfected my what is bio dynamic spiel and i will be speaking about my training and what i see for my future in this community at the next sustainable blablaba something meeting in June.
yeah for bio dynamics, yeah for education and the confidence it gives one to take on the worlds challenges and yeah for people who actually want to listin and talk about this stuff!
also a big hiphip horrah for all of those who dream big and live it! with all of the challenges that brings, it is thease people who have so much to teach us, and it will be us living our biggest dreams soon.
keep dreaming, bigger and bigger. i know i am, i have 3 bissness plans in my head now i just have to get them on paper.
i am high on this life, so happy for all of the learning and challenges that have brought me to this amazing place in the world, physically, spiritually and emotionally.
sending you all all of my luck and love.

erin


ps
, adam....thanks for visiting me in my dreams. i feel like we check in regularly, but drop a line in waking life and let me know where and how you are.
blessings to all,

xoxo
Finaly the first cut is done! finished sillage making for now.... it s waiting for the grass to grow again xD
weather is good and the last few jungstock who are still inside are getting out to pasture today!

Went to Hamburg to the Oper yesterday... five hours of Wagner (Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg)....havy stuff.....

all is going good here..can milk the cows now on my own! still takes a bit longer, what ever... makes fun....

so nearly lunch time!

hope you are well!!!

theire are still too few posts here from all of you!