For the last few weeks I have been volunteering at a community farm that is by St. Ives, the interesting thing is that it's a mainly volunteer-run, meaning that it's produce is a lot cheaper than most farm shops. It only has two paid people on the property.
The main man is Hugh, a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious guy. He is
the most organized Wwoof host I've encountered so far. This consist of two things. One, a chart in his office that has everything to who is working, where, and when. Two, you can ask he whatever you need to know about on the farm and he will anwser you in under 5 seconds. But another amazing thing is that he has visited 75 countries. That is more than one third of all the countries in the world.
Then there is Otter, a fun guy who makes his own alcohol, his New Year's resolution was to stop buying alcohol from the store. Which you know is a pretty cool thing to do. Although he drinks quite a lot to match it. And with another Wwoofer Clare they probably do 10 pints a night.
But besides that he is a great guy, your classic handy man who can do a bit of everything.
I call he "Fish Mammal", (because an Otter is a mammal that is in water and it swims so it's like a fish and it's a mammal... oh forget it). We had quite a fun time together, we would constantly nag at each other, for fun. Ah the laughs we had.
There was three different days that you would have to do, each day a different one.
1. Chicken day.
The chickens are free range and are separated into three different sections years 1, 2, and 3, these chickens don't live very long, so if they make it past year 3 they get sold for gardens.
First you have to feed them half their feed, then you switch their water, then of course you collect the eggs. You repeat this just before lunch, then after lunch you collect eggs finally you put them to sleep at 5pm.
2. Shop Day.
You run the shop and look after all the customers and you make lunch for everybody.
All in All it is very relaxing.
3. Farm Day.
Farm day is when you really have to work. It ends up being a 8 hour day including brakes, but I think that is fine, because the other days are so laid back, and you do fun things like working with Hugh, who is great to work with, and one of favourite things is digging up leeks and washing and cleaning them. One time I dug up a 900 gram leek, after I had cut off all the extra parts which usually takes off 400 grams, so in total it was about 1.3 kilograms. My hand is 10 inches from wrist to the tip of my middle finger, and my hand didn't go all the way around.
Thank you for reading,
To:
Hue, and Mr. Mammal
Thank you for all the fun times, I hope the chickens are happy, and say high to Sennan (I have no clue how to spell his name, I'm sorry, don't strike me down with lightning please).
Have a great day.
