The Beginning
Every beginning is difficult, but full of wonders and surprises.
In March 2008 we arrived with our personal things, tools and some machines at the farm in Jalovik, that we were going to buy. How was the situation? The place looked empty and left, our houses and stable in a pretty bad conditon. No animals, a empty field, muddy and everywhere staying water.
We started to clean up the place, the yard, a lot of garbage, the houses from the old stuff of the previous owners.
We fixed the stable with a lot of improvisational talent we made the first young plant bed for the vegetables. Soon we got the first goats and chicken. In the end of 2008 also Mangulitza-pigs and the first sheep. And a privat donation from Germany for the first Machines and tractor.
In March 2008 we arrived with our personal things, tools and some machines at the farm in Jalovik, that we were going to buy. How was the situation? The place looked empty and left, our houses and stable in a pretty bad conditon. No animals, a empty field, muddy and everywhere staying water.
We started to clean up the place, the yard, a lot of garbage, the houses from the old stuff of the previous owners.
We fixed the stable with a lot of improvisational talent we made the first young plant bed for the vegetables. Soon we got the first goats and chicken. In the end of 2008 also Mangulitza-pigs and the first sheep. And a privat donation from Germany for the first Machines and tractor.
Further steps
until 2012 we managed with help of several donators to expand the farms land on 12, 5ha, about 6 ha are in the farms property, the rest land we still rent. On 2,5 ha we are growing about 50 different varieties of vegetables. The houses and stable have been restored and extanded. There were a 2 heysheds buildt for storing the animals hey and straw. Until March 2012 we got arround 30 goats and sheep, several Mangulitza pigs and 3 Busha cows. On the agricultural fields we are growing rye and barley and lots of clover grass and vetches for our animals.