From top (left to right) Photo of farm, some cute boy Alpacas, me chilling with an Alpaca, New born baby and family, 2 photographs of my funny farm outfits (it was very hot) and my hand after it was stung by many wasps.









Photos from top, left to right: Another farm outfit, one of the horses who I loved, me riding the bike through the town, cow selfie! and the beautiful farm house :)









So... the future eh?





Well, I have applied to do some work on farms for after university, in Germany also as it is where I see my home. I would quite like to work in restoration and conservation of land. I am keen to work with animals again, maybe not so many, but I do enjoy being around them :) I hope someone takes me - I would very much like to be outdoors and working with nature.









Do any of you have farming experience?





All my best,





Love Mer x

Hello everyone!I hope you are all having a nice start to the weekend - it is actually rather cold here in England. I thought today I would write about my farming past :)In the summer of 2016 I had no clue what to do with my time, but I knew I wanted an adventure. This led me to looking at WWOOF. From here I wrote a bunch of farms in Germany asking if I could come work for the summer and surprisingly a lot said yes haha. I decided on an Alpaca farm, packed my bags and off I went.I arrived on the most beautiful farm and I was thrown in at the deep end. My job became to teach Alpacas to do parkour - yes, seriously. They wanted me to help build the Alpacas an assault course and then teach them how to do it. I'd have to walk to the fields where they were kept and also try lasso 5 alpacas and bring them back to the farm - I can't say this was a skill I expected to learn. My other jobs on the farm was getting the ducks up and putting them to bed, cleaning and feeding the Alpacas, looking after the chickens, feeding the geese, cleaning and also preparing their food.Sadly I didn't have a great time on this farm, in fact I actually ran away. The owners of it travelled to Spain and left me and two others to run the farm. It was quite a lot of work for an 18 year old girl who was farming for the first time. I also had quite a few bad experiences with the Alpacas that involved them kicking me, pulling me over and trying to run away and the part that made me leave - being chased by a lot of dogs out the forest and the Alpacas went mad and I got hurt. A lot of days I'd wake up and wonder what is my life haha. Another low light was having to clean an unused greenhouse - turns out a wasp nest lived in there and decided to fall on me. This resulted in my hand being stung multiple times and a vast amount of pain. I couldn't not work though, because how else would the farm be run? I left in the end because I was scared. Scared of getting more hurt, they should never have put us in that position. On a side note: they also weren't very kind, they made me do things I didn't want to do and also fed us food with lots of mould on that led to us being sick every night.Here are some photos from that farm:I had written to a nearby farm asking if I could come, they said yes and I packed my bags. The next farm was delightful, everyone was so welcoming. My jobs at this farm were feeding and cleaning the horses, feeding the chickens, feeding the cows, cleaning the pigs, walking the dogs, watering the plants, collecting the vegetables and doing some cooking. This farm was also huge! Some of my highlights were doing forest maintenance with a machete! Riding a horse, having a party in a German military base, collecting garlic in the fields and exploring the town! They let us use spare bikes they had and one day I got lost and accidentally cycled to the Czech Republic, I was unsure if I'd ever make it back! I was so happy at this farm, the work was very hard though - I can't say cleaning a lot of pig sties was my favourite - plus the day we cleaned 6 months worth of cow poo was quite something.Here are some photos: