My first week on my second farm has gone by very fast. To get started, let me get you acquainted with the basics again. Fruitweelde is a commercial farm run by Willemien (you’ll see pictures of her later on). The farm produces different types of berries, including currants, gooseberries, and more. On this farm, there…

Friday For my second (and most likely last) overnight trip into Belgium, I traveled to Antwerp. Antwerp was only a short 35 min train ride away from my first farm (after driving 30 min to Lokeren station in Belgium) and was somewhat on the way to my next farm. Antwerp is the 2nd largest city…

Shorter blog post here, but I wanted to share my final two days on my first farm before I head to Antwerp and onto the next farm. Thursday was spent continuing work inside the greenhouse. While the previous day was spent planting seeds into small plastic compartments within trays, Thursday’s work was focused on creating…

You probably remember playing duck, duck, goose on the playground or at summer camp. One person goes around the circle patting heads, saying duck each time. Eventually they will pat someone’s head and say goose, proceeding to run around the circle trying to get to the empty spot before the goose tags them. Much of…

After returning from Ghent, I’ve settled into a rhythm here on the farm. I get to sleep in reasonably late (till about 9am), work on the farm for 4-5hrs with a long lunch break, either relax or take a bike ride in the afternoon, eat dinner with everyone, and then head to bed. Of course…

On my first days off on the farm, I decided to bike down to Ghent (pronounced “hent” in Dutch, which thankfully preserves the rhyme of the title). I’ve only been on the farm, which I should start referring to by its name, the Red Lock Farm, for 3 full days, but wanted to head down…

Here comes the section of the blog you’ve all been waiting for (or at least I hope so): me actually farming. Don’t worry, this will be the majority of the content from here on out. I’m going to summarize my first three full days on the farm in this post. Before I begin sharing the…

I began my adventure to get to my first farm by heading to Amsterdam Centraal via tram. I was quite the sight on the tram with my big backpack – an older lady told me she was impressed (not the demographic I needed to impress, but we’ll take it nonetheless). True to my word, I…

Quick update: I have now seen one of the poles atop the houses being used. Not as exciting as I had hoped. For my last day in Amsterdam, I wanted to visit the Rijksmuseum (the main art museum in town holding many of the dutch master works) and had plans to meet up with some…

Yes tourist can be a verb. Apparently it’s a rare one though, so I’ll mark myself down with a few extra points for it. For my second day in Amsterdam, I wanted to start checking off some of the big things to do. To start off, I started walking in search of some coffee and…