Especially on small family farms the relationship between farmers and animals is close.

Murder On The Farmland

20. December 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I never saw the murderers. And there was no sentence either. But the victims were there. Sometimes terribly battered, sometimes gone without a trace. We always knew who the killers were: ravens, coyotes, rats, chickens, dogs and cats.

Bohnenernte. Frisch aus dem Garten schmeckt die Hülsenfrucht am besten.

About Moles And Other Misunderstandings

19. December 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Hanna and Ruth are the names of the two sisters on whose farm I spent the first weeks of August. That meant feeding alpacas, watering plants, collecting eggs. Most of all, I had a lot of time to explore beautiful Vancouver Island. What does that have to do with moles? Well…

Building The Smallest Room At The Edge Of The Forest

28. October 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Canadians are into outhouses. Again and again I came across the outdoor toilets on my journey through the country. Compost toilets are especially popular. At the Fletchers, my third wwoof station, I was allowed to help build one.

Off we go... Guy and I in the small airplane.

Above the clouds … Alberta looks very small

24. October 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

And suddenly I was flying a small plane. But only briefly. Because it was much more exciting to see Alberta from above.

Beekeeping – God Save The Queen, Or: One For All And All For The Hive

16. October 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

Beekeeping suit, gloves and off to the hive. During my Wwoof stay in Alberta, I was part of a bee inspection and was able to get close to the beehives. A very educational experience.

Guy Fletcher in the potato field. What he robs, becomes food right away.

Self-Sufficient Living: From The Garden To The Pot On The table

9. October 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

We all know that healthy nutrition is important. However, „healthy“ is a matter of definition. The Fletchers eat almost exclusively organic food. I spent two weeks with this inspiring and special family.

Kindness #3 – Everything Happens The Way It’s Supposed To Happen

9. September 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

I had to leave the sheep farm fastly. The search for a new place to stay began and surprisingly only took a few hours – thanks to many warm-hearted and selfless people.

Hands, clothes, everything smells of sheep. Wonderful.

Milking Sheep Is Pure Joy

8. September 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Three weeks living and learning on a sheep farm – on my second station as WWOOFer I was particularly happy. Lamb cuddles, milking sheep, and making sheep’s milk cheese were some of my tasks. A textbook example of Farm life. And yet I had to leave the farm much earlier than planned to protect myself.