Farm 1 update finally

After being picked up in a tiny little Fiat Punto by Stefan, his wife and two daughters (meaning we had to sit four across the back seat holding our packs with no seat belts) we were slightly worried. But after a 45 minute drive up into the mountains high above Arezzo (in Tuscany) our luck definitely changed – they had a complete tuscan bed and breakfast house set up for us! Basically we had an awesome little four room tuscan mud house to relax in after about four hours of work each day.

After meeting the whole family (7 in total) we started work. Work involved lots of different things including making vegetable gardens, building fences for vines, picking cherries, killing roosters (and taking the feathers out, another story!).. It was only in the second week that we really got into the bee keeping, and then it was jumping right into the deep end! Alex would go out to all the different bee hives with Stefan and steal the precious honey from the angry bees, while Jo would do everything else needed to get the honey sold at the market (draining, filtering, spinning, jarring, labelling, selling!)

In all we had an awesome time at this farm and it left us with a good impression of wwoofing. (If you are interested in having a go, just google wwoof and the name of any country in the world!)

Oh, and we only got bitten twice (both to Alex within 3 seconds of each other, one on each hand!)