Saturday, 8 February 2014

First farming experience in New Zealand: at Pam's dairy farm, surrounded by cows, chickens, lambs...

Dear all,
After one day of being on our own after the wonderful week with families, we met a nice Kiwi chap, Vic, who was working at the campsite on behalf of the local council...What a nice and funny guy...Thanks to him, we found work at a dairy farm owned by Pam Williams....work in exchange of accommodation (what a bed....) and of food (how nice to eat local bacon, eggs, lamb....vegetables...on a daily basis). We did not really work with cows as the farm is managed by experienced people and they use big automatic machines to milk the cows...So we ended up working on the chicken & hens' field, preparing the glass house's ground for the next veggies and fruits' seasons, mowing the giant field owned by Pam etc..etc...What an experience to do this....to be surrounded by all these animals and to spend some wonderful time with Vic & Pam. We will add more pics on the farm, the animals, Vic & Pam shortly but feel free to have a look at the downloaded pics on the usual sections: New Zealand, Portraits and Foodies.