We saw OUR goats! Wow! Suddenly it accelerates: good discussions with our future partners, the first administrative procedures and a visit to the farm where we will buy our little goats. We went a week to Mosset, in the Pyrenees Orientales. The start!
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The last cards are played
Our last cards are played in the Drôme! And … we didn’t win the game. Our last plan was worked out to the end during the last few months, with a group of friends in Drôme.
Continue reading “The last cards are played”A failure and a new plan
We abandon the project of the hamlet in the Ardèche. It is too ambitious and too heavy to carry just by the two of us, and we didn’t find any partners. Too bad, it gives us a boost of demotivation! The quest continues, but where and how?
Continue reading “A failure and a new plan”The great adventure and many doubts
We feel good in the Drôme : the river to swim, nice housemates, a nice garden, lots of friends, concerts ans festivals all sumer long … And even some work in different goat farms : a part-time in Grâne, almost a neighbour, and some small replacements here and there.
Continue reading “The great adventure and many doubts”Acquire a hamlet in Ardèche
As we searched for farms, we ended up finding a very nice place to buy, our favorite untill now. Here, the challenge is great and, if it does not succeed, there will be other favorites … But we would like to try it!
The project: to acquire a hamlet in Ardeche (Eyrieux valley), to build a collective farm of organic and peasant agriculture, and a place of living.
Continue reading “Acquire a hamlet in Ardèche”Some farm visits
31 January 2019, the work on the farm is finished for Mathieu and me. It relieves, even if this job as a shepherd-farm hand was interesting and formative. Henceforth, have a lot of motivation to look for our own farm! And the goal for us, in 2019, is at least to identify the land where we will start. Not an easy task!
Continue reading “Some farm visits”A new wind
Autumn colors the Drôme in beautiful colors. The wind and the rain did finally come, but there are still sunny and calm days. This summer
Mathieu and me worked a lot on the sheep farm as seasonal workers. Sweating in the sun, we made a lot of parks (mowing and putting electric mobile fences), but also taking care of the herd and participating in the lambing.
A job
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. Continue reading “A job”
A new group
Ok, we have to constitute a new group! Giula and Theau came to the Drôme to see if they like this region. And the answer is yes they like it here (of course, I think everybody would like it here :p). But they are attached to their territory in the North. And me, I abandoned my North to find the sun and the mountains and I don’t have the plans to return… But we have to say “it’s ok”, it means that soon there will be two new collective farms. Continue reading “A new group”
At the foot of the mountain
Oh Poepoen! Here Plume, your steak. Woef, woef!
These are the sounds I hear while I am writing a business plan for the farm. I’m in an apartment in the old center of Crest. After three weeks living in the truck we found this for one month. Luckily, because it was quite cold and humid; washing ourselves in the river Drôme, eating Thai in the truck in the dark while watching a movie on the laptop, sitting in the library to warm up and recharge our computers… The luxury of an apartment is big after that. We live here with the owner Laurent, an artist, a Romanian man, Julian, who is doing a computer course and who eats only chicken and olives, and a “Jip en Janneke” cat and dog. Continue reading “At the foot of the mountain”