Things are always changing. From a very nice house with nice housemates in Grâne we moved to the other side of the river, another sub-renting, with other nice people. A change, even more when the change is not chosen, is always a bit tiring and gives a strange feeling in the stomach. A reason more to find a place more stable to live, to work and to build something of our own.
But our minds were a bit less with the agricultural installation last months. Since, just after the cheese course in Pradel (Ardèche), I started a job on a sheep farm. The idea was for Mathieu and me to do a part-time job on the farm. But apparently an agricultural part-time is 45 hours per week! No, but it’s the hay period and a part of the herd is lambing so there is a lot of work to do and for the moment we are doing both a big full-time. It’s an organic farm with 550 sheep, forage (both for sale and own use), maize, peas, flax, barley, wheat, lentils, chickpeas, garlic, sunflowers, nuts… We take care of the sheep: feeding the mothers and lambs, making electric enclosures for the rest of the herd, and all kind of little farm tasks. It’s a very physical job!
There is a lot of thunder lately, making in the sky beautiful cloud formations. That’s the nice part of an agricultural job: it’s outside (and the downside when the rain falls). The cereal fields turn slowly yellow with hundreds of red poppy spots. We get to know better and better the region and the people. Swimming in the river, going to the market, apero here and there, walking in the mountains.