Typical days

So at this farm there aren't really weekends or non working time. Since there are horses, there is always work to do taking care of them you can make yourself useful all the time. Of course you can take personal time whenever necessary, but it just helps to let someone know beforehand so they an cover your task. It's much less like a typical production farm, with set hours and goals and projects. Instead it's just kind of a pastoral life, and for everything you put into the work you get things like vegetables, fruits, olive oil, maybe some eggs and wine. A typical day begins with horse feeding before breakfast, although this just switched from after to before breakfast as the days start earlier. Drew, another American knows the horse routine best, and has been here the longest, so it's his responsibility and sometimes we just help him. Then breakfast of toast and homemade jelly, and coffee or tea. Then everyone cleans up, and we go about some outside tasks. Such as planting in the garden, cleaning up after the horses, or bundling firewood from the olive pruning. There's no time limit on tasks, but lunch is normally served at two so you decide best wether to finish, cut it short and finish later, or save some work for another day. After lunch it slows down until about now, 430. Then everyone digests, horses get fed, people walk, read, entertain themselves, exercise, blog, kind of whatever. Drew feeds the horses again at night,nd we try and help him so that he can get in for dinner earlier. We eat, clean, visit, ponder, blog, and pass time as necessary. Although the tasks are fairly simple, it is really a neat system when considered in its entirety. The horses eat and poop, which becomes manure and soil for the garden. Then you plant, harvest, can and store so that you can eat, and fuel yourself to pick up poop, move it to the pile, sift the pile, take it to the garden, plant and eat. If you get tired of this closed loop, prune some olive trees, press, enjoy.