NZ Farmlife

My last week of WWOOFing before I take a flight back to Auckland (and a week after that my flight home!) is taking place on a beautiful dairy goat farm near Christchurch. The family owns a small herd of Nubian goats, a dozen chicken, four cows and your average crowd of farm dogs and kittens. As the hostess recently spent five days in the hospital nursing a hand infection, I'm quite needed and will be taking over all kinds of farm duties, from milking the goats all the way up to cleaning the chicken coop.

Living like a Queen ~

The yoghurt we made yesterday, with blackcurrants from the garden!

The hosts believe in organic and sustainable farming, are 90% self-sufficient and make their own cheese, soap, yoghurt, etc. Even the power and heating is done by solar and log-burner.

I will be learning how to make cheese and bread, have my own queen-sized bed and can take a shower without having to guess how to turn on the hot water.

And here we have homemade cheese, which tastes incredible.

 It's definitely very interesting and I have been learning a lot about organic remedies and sustainable living, as well as animal care and human nature.