June 4 2018 Bosavern Community Farm - Day 1 of work

Some of the WWOOFERS at the Farm - Andrew aka Otta - Animal Spirit name is one of our managers.  He is in the middle.  John on the right is from Australia.  Lotta is from Germany.

I am having great difficulty uploading pictures and I have so many to share.   The American girl is loaning me the correct adapter for the electrical connection.  I am so mad I left mine in the upstairs bedroom at the last farmhouse I stayed at.  I would be here with NO cell phone and no Internet.

I have bills to pay online tonight and my Internet is very important for this.

Started the day up at 6 AM and washed dishes in the sink, made breakfast,  washed my undergarments, and hung on the line, early.  At 7:30 AM I observed Bastian, from France, be instructed on his turn to take care of chickens.  WHAT A JOB - 7:30 AM, 10:30 AM. 2 PM to collect eggs.  It's a very long walk to 3 chicken houses.  electric fences.  Each door you open about 75 chickens jump out on you.  You have to wheelbarrow weighed plastic containers of food to 3 different age groups of birds.  Change water, scrub water dishes.  If rain barrows are empty, you have to walk far on an old potato field with furrows that are covered with dock and other weeds and find the spigot. Give them water and check field for eggs hidden in the grasses.   Then close the doors, lock the fences, and wash the eggs, then put in storage.

 Then we went up to St. Just cemetery and the main roadway and planted many containers with 100's of beautiful flowers like petunias, verbena, begonias, impatiens, pansies, white and purple trailing lobelia, bacopa, geraniums, I was in heaven doing this.

 I picked a bucket each of snow peas, dragon kale, broad beans, and I weeded the broad bean row.

 working in poly tunnel was very hot.

Once the kale was picked I had to weigh 200 grams per bag end seal them with a label,  Same with freshly picked organic salad greens.  I had to weigh 100 grams each and make a label and bag them for market.   I made 25 bags of salad and only 6 of Kale.   The broad beans and peas went straight into the farmer's market shop 

 These bags I packed below go to the market in town.

We had lunch at 1 PM with tortillas made by the German girl, and leftover curry stew, rice, and cooked greens.   After I got done bagging the food, Otta allowed me to retire at 4:15 PM instead of 5 PM.   I did a lot of walking and work today.  

There is a folk music gig going on in the Village tonight but my 2 big toes have purple discoloration underneath the nails and my feet are swollen.   I feel very tired.  I think I'll go down and have supper at 7:15 PM and stay here while the young folks go out.  I'd be interested in seeing how the locals live and party, but my feet need some care.  And I need a little rest.   I never stopped all day except to eat.  

Oh and I cut down the comfrey for comfrey tea as well as mentioning they have seaweed tea, as well.

So this is my home for the next 2 weeks.