Sleepover on the mountaintop!

Last weekend we slept on the mountaintop! I was watering the garden in the afternoon and when I came back they had made pizza that we could bring and eat on the top while watching the sunset. It was super windy when we were walking up, but we managed to find a calm spot to sleep. Toni brought our big sheepskin which we could all sleep on. It was so beautiful and we were filled with excitement and happiness (Lykke!). It was so nice to fall asleep and wake up with the sun. In the morning we started with a danceparty and then we walked down for our duties. 

The flowering garden

The garden is beautiful! Everything is flowering and growing! I am learning that whenever I start to worry too much I just have to look around, stop thinking and start enjoying. In the garden there is a lot of beauty to look at and to be happy about! Soon we will have a lot of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchinis and other delicious vegetables to eat!

Quack burn

In mid-April we celebrated the finishing of dequacking (removing couchgrass) with a huge bonfire in the garden! I am happy that we did that when everything was still moist and green so nothing else was put on fire. First we ate lasagna that I had prepared, and then we gathered in a circle around the fire with a handful of quack, shared some words of thankfulness and love and threw the quack on the already existing quackfire. We danced. It was beautiful, empowering and liberating. It was also some volunteers last night, which was sad, but it was a beautiful goodbye/see you again. The goodbyes here are always painful. We get so close so fast and share a lot of experiences, and then suddenly it is time to say goodbye, but I am just so thankful for all the lovely people I meet here and learn from.

Finca on fire!

Today, The 4th of June one of La Donairas fields was on fire! Everything is super dry. The fields went from green to golden in 2-3 weeks and we already had a fire! A guy who has worked here for 5 years said that it was the first time in the 5 years that he has been here. We don't know what started the fire, maybe some electricity in a building or a cigarette (just a guess). We were working in the garden when we saw the smoke growing bigger and bigger. We ran there to see if we could help. Luckily when we got there the fire was already under control and we were just hitting the last small flames with some branches to kill them. I think it was a huge wake up call for all of us. Agente medio ambiente (The nature agency/naturstyrelsen) came and said that we need to make boundaries around the farm to prevent the fire from moving too far. The deadline for making that was the 1th of June, so the farm could possibly get a huge fee.

Lately, I have wanted to make a bonfire, but now I have thrown that thought faaar away! No unnecessary risks.

Toni saving the day by peeing on the flames and Kata by hitting the flames with a branch.