Around the farm

A typical day starts around 9 AM - first I water the plants in the poly-tunnel and then go back to the house for breakfast. After breakfast I do whatever tasks Karan asks of me - usually weeding, watering/feeding the animals, or working with the animals. Around noon we break for lunch, and then in the afternoon we do more random jobs or just relax.

Except for a few standard tasks, the work on the farm changes daily (which I love). Today a group of children from the local school came over (they walked! on busy roads! in high heat! that would never have happened at any of my schools) to look at the animals and compare the differences in their fur. Yesterday a prospective buyer came to look at one of the alpacas so we had to catch Romeo, make him look beautiful and get him into the holding pen. Just a few examples of what goes on around here.

And now, here's a tour of La Bergerie:

the house

Aggie, the basset hound

the great danes - Dixie and Gaia

inside the poly-tunnel

grapevine

beets

tomatoes

garden #1 - fennel, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce

garden #2 - overgrown with weeds (in the process of being de-weeded); snap peas, carrots, potatoes, beets

chickens

 pigs

the llamas 

the donkeys - Tabitha and Eeyore

in the alpaca enclosure - putting a harness on Romeo

Joseph leading Romeo

the llamas want to see what's going on

leading Romeo to the holding pen