Farm #1: check
The pressing task for the past week has been to secure a farm to work on upon arrival in New Zealand (now a mere 14 days away). After calling and emailing some farms and getting a response of either, "Sorry, we're all booked until March" or, "Well we're not sure if you could stay then or not - why don't you just ring us when you arrive in New Zealand," I flung up my hands and almost started planning a beach vacation in desperation. Then I called one last farm that not only agreed to host me upon arrival but is able to pick me up from Auckland! The 17th one's a charm. They not only live in a rammed-earth house (with solar and wind power and water from bush springs!) that I will get to work on, but they also boast of "a hilltop property with beautiful 360-degree views over land and Pacific Ocean." I think I will ask to stay longer than a week.
posted by bronwynian @ 9:12 PM
6 Comments:
While most are concerned with the concept of underwear for justice, I am completely freaked out that you are just now calling farms to work on... and that you're just calling up random farms. Don't they have some sort of farm worker exchange program or host farm program????? Like they could send some New Zealand person here so we would have leverage if they decide not to give you back. And can you try not to get on another chicken killing farm again??? A nice nice low- cruelty soy farm would be nice...
-Val
While that now the farm #1 crisis has passed, I would like to now turn my concerns to this: rammed-earth houses
Jigga what?
I don't know what it means, but hope it doesn't mean you are living like a mole underground. That would hurt you eye sight! and not even your hipster glasses could help. Do you have to ram earth, as they say, while you live there?
B,
I can't believe your International Farm Odyssey is about to begin! Please let us know the farm's address so that we can send some comforts from urban America. No, not dirt, grime, and crime! I'm thinking hip hop, fusion cuisine, and intellectual banter.
I wish I could recommend some people in New Zealand for you to ring up, but the Kiwis I have met have been relatively unreliable if not nefarious, not that there's anything wrong with that. I do know a few hospitable and generous Aussies if you decide to visit Perth, Melbourne, or Sydney!
Bon Voyage,
theresa
Oooo, rammed earth houses are the coolest. They are houses made from dirt, appropriately rammed to make walls and such. I will give more details when I actually see one.
bronwyn only you would hop so quickly to the defense of rammed earth. fantastic. -katie
Okay I remember being very fascinated with the dugout house in Little House on the Prairie- the book not the series. I think that this was the book where they had the locust plague and I vaguely remember a cow being slaughtered. Can you please confirm whether or not Laura Ingalls-Wilder (she was feminist before there was a feminist so I think she would prefer to have her name hyphenated in our modern age)"dug-out" is similar to the rammed-earth home?
Do they have pest control in rammed earth houses. I don't like roaches. Like is there linoleum and stuff?
Or MINI-BLINDS!!!!?????
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