Welcome on our “Living on a farm in Slovakia – Blog”. In May 2008 we have bought a smallholding in Slovakia without ever having seen it and we have moved to our farm in September 2008. Since then we have started to get acquainted with our neighbours, learn the Slovak language, renovate the house, regain our land from nature and we have actually started to farm on our land in spring 2009. On this blog you can follow our progress and setbacks. Have fun reading it!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Farm?
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Garden - beginning of the Summer
Last weeks flowers start to become fruits! Peas, Courgettes (summer squash), broad beens, beetroots, carrots will be ready soon. Now we have new potatoes (!!!!), mangetouts, spinach, lots of lettuce, rucola, onions and russian kale on our plate.
Flowers and fruits
Cabbages and kale (savoy, russian, red, brocolli)
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Working the twig
We would like to have a second source for water since we use a lot with our campsite. Our neighbour knew a good dowser, mr. Guten, a man who has the gift to work with the twig in search of water. This is the method still used to find subsoil water sources. We also worked with dowsers in Africa. I still find it amazing to withness!
Mr. Guten could indicate water sources, but also their depth and expected output. To my big surprise he told me that I also might have this skill - since I am of blood type O. But I did not tell him my bloodtype! When I tried to estimate the dept with a water bottle on a string it swung the other way around - logical since I am rhesus negative........
At the last picture you see Katinka practising it with some wooden sticks :-)
Mr. Guten could indicate water sources, but also their depth and expected output. To my big surprise he told me that I also might have this skill - since I am of blood type O. But I did not tell him my bloodtype! When I tried to estimate the dept with a water bottle on a string it swung the other way around - logical since I am rhesus negative........
At the last picture you see Katinka practising it with some wooden sticks :-)
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