landgrab

Bin gerade diese interaktive Karte gestoßen, die beschreibt in welchem unglaublichen Ausmaß Investoren reicher Länder Zugang zu Ackerland in armen Ländern sichern. Man muß sich mal Madagasgar anschauen. $0 Prozent der Bevölkerung unterernährt und über 2 Drittel der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzfläche von fremden Investoren gepachtet oder gekauft, zum überwiegenden Teil um Agrodieselpflanzen anzubauen (Zuckerrohr, Jatropha und Palmöl).
Sudan ist ebenso interessant. Ich bin wirklich dankbar, daß Terre de liens unseren Hof gekauft hat um uns den Zugang zur Landwirtschaft zu ermöglichen, aber eigentlich wäre eine solche Organisation im Süden viel dringender benötigt.

passage de brebis

drainage

Notre entrepreneur a fait la tranche pour le cable electrique et l'access d'eau et commencè le drainage autour de la bergerie. On prepare tous pour les grandes portes.

Feline

Feline, is our guardian dog for the sheep. She lives with them, grew up with them and in theory mostly thinks of herself as a sheep and thus wants to protect her flock. She came to us as a puppy and grew with amazing speed into a big fluffy thing that moves in a rather dorky fashion. On both pictures she is barking at me, doing her job, for she does not know me very well (me being the gardener). She is a Great Pyrenees also known as patou (Belle from Belle et Sebastien is a patou). The other day I saw her carry a newborn lamm in her mouth as a cat might do with a kitten and at first thought she ate it, but she just moved for the flock had moved away and it was a little bit isolated.

Jointout red light district

At night one can see red light coming out of certain places at our farm, it is where the young animals are and need some extra warmth because they are not with their mothers anymore. These ducks arrived at the farm today. When they are a little older Frida will do her first training of her herding skills with them.

creamery

This is the view from the creamery into the stable. Next week a mason is going to build the walls that separate creamery, storage, shop and office.

Fressgitter

Jeden Tag haben wir mehr Tiere (mittlerweile 60 Lämmer und 15 Ziegen), es wird wirklich höchste Zeit, dass der Stall fertig wird. Hier der Futtergang ohne und mit Fressgittern (noch nicht fertig aber in Installation).