Farm Life

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Quick hello from us!

In the small town about 30 min drive (over NZ country style roads, having to wait for cows just like back home!) from our farm for the night to chill out, maybe have a sleep in, do some surfing and chill on the beach....Also keen to find some coffee.....its one of things we REALLY miss from home, you´d think in Ecuador we´d have been drinking delicious coffee and eating loads of bananas but oddly enough no!

Week one at the farm =

• Up at 5.50am every day including Saturdays (steve´s job this week has been cleaning oout the pooey pig stalls before breakfast!)
  
• But Loving it!! Learning heaps of farm stuff, our permaculture course is really interesting, getting as involved as possible....and learning heaps
  
• although our spanish is still terrible!
  
• Sort of on a detox here - no alcohol nor junk food (the aim is to create no unrecyable waste) on farm! So an enforced break!
  
• An amazing farm set up....all our food comes directly from the farm....
  
• Day starts at 6am and finishes about 4pm....doing anything from weeding, hauling bags of compost, planting, building raised beds, revegetatation, dishes, cooking
  
• Yesterday morning I helped to fix the chicken coop bamboo fence by cutting the bamboo, with machete!
  
• Finish exhausted so collapse into bed about 8.30/9pm!
  

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