3.21.2010

Wonderful World of WWOOFing

Farming Firsts So Far at Ngaroma Homestead

1. Shearing a sheep

2. Firing a rifle

3. Driving a quad bike

4. Running a pack of dogs

5. Herding sheep with the dogs and the quad bike

Picture your very favorite city-girl-goes-down-on-the-farm story - it can be anything at all, as long is it's not the Hannah Montana movie. Now picture me fulfilling a lot of those timeless tropes: she intentionally tries to miss actually shooting the Canadian geese; she's not terribly gifted in the arena of gear changes or tire pressure; and she's a vegetarian, for crying out loud, on a sheep farm (who after the sheep-shearing incident, incidentally, is probably off of the wool as well). In short, I'm having an absolute ball here. I hope to get you a couple photos of the farm (and my pack of dogs) soon.