In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been lately, its right here in this greenhouse. This or another of the 5 here at the tomato farm. My typical day consists of waking up around 6:20, breakfast at 6:30 and work begins at 7. I’ll start by picking a few boxes of lettuce and packaging them for a restaurant or the market. ‘Ficka’ or the mid-morning break takes place at 9:30 where everyone on the farm stops to have toast and coffe.
After ficka I head into the tomato greenhouse to train the branches and move some clips around. It can get quite warm inside a greenhouse. Then I might pick weeds, rhubarbs or chives and either toss or package them again. We take turns preparing meals so if its my day to make lunch I’ll head in around 11:30 and have a meal for 12 or so ready in about an hour. After lunch its back out to the fields for some watering, or perhaps filling pots with soil and planting basil. The day ends at 2 and its back to the house for a rest. We’re a ‘family’ of 11 right now, two Swedish owners, one Finnish horticulture student fulfilling an internship, and 8 wwoofers, 2 Germans, 1 Swede, 2 New Zealanders, and us. We had an Ecuadorian girl for most of the time as well but she just left last week. Its been quite an interesting mix to say the least.
