The good life

Here i find myself trying to find the freedom of my soul - accompanied by goats, sheeps, horses, cats, 2 typical greek bear-like dogs,.. loads of chickens. They seem to be happy here.

Constructing cat-proof chicken stalls (lets hope for the poor animals) and learning the tricks of ecological gardening, we find ourself enjoying the life on the farm. Added the spice of hearing about the food's connection to our mind and health, we get energized every day by home-grown salat. Living here it seems clear that societies livestyle has shifted the wrong way during the industrialisation period - having now good food as the exception, while it was normal for centuries. Change in a changing world is needed anyway. But are we really ready to take down our dependence on luxury?

For my part i find myself, after eating salat for a week, in the kitchen - trying to cook delicious home-grown garden snails in order to counter the joy of lacking meat. Accompanying me in my eagerness for this dish, i find the owner of the farm - Dimitris. With energetic enthusiasm and excited young eyes he adds flour to the basket.. A clever process for cleaning the living food outside.. and inside.

Leading scaryily-big horses, the sorrow with a dying little goat in my arms, the pleasure of running water in the morning, laughing with the farm's kids Amelie and Louis.. many more little experiences.. before we were eventually pulled back on the road again..