Either it is incredibly easy to hitchhike in Sweden or I just got really lucky today, but I arrived at Ridgedale around 20:00 right when Richard, Rob and Gustavo came back from fishing. I had some pretty cool rides and as always only nice people picked me up. The last ride was a Ridgedale neighbor.
Since I am early and everyone arrives tomorrow it is still really relaxed here and I got to chose the best bed!
All ten interns sleep in one room in a big loft in an old barn house.
After joining Rob, Gordon and Gustavo for dinner we had an incredibly relaxing sauna and I got my stuff unpacked. Tomorrow morning I get to help Gordon move the chickens before breakfast and Richard is leaving to get 500 new day-old chicks. Around 14:00 people will start arriving for the ten day permaculture design course and the internship. There will pe ten participants in the PDC and ten interns.
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Arriving in Sweden
I’m sitting on the flight to Stockholm,
Sweden on my way to a ten week intensive internship program at
Ridgedale Farm AB. The internship kicks of with a ten day
permaculture design course where I hope to deepen my knowledge about
natural systems and how to interpret and use them. During the course
we will define our holistic context in order to map out which
direction we want to go in our life. This will help us order and use
the knowledge we gain in the course.
I expect the internship
to be very intense with Richard Perkins as the main teacher. He has
experience in coaching thousands of farmers and (re)-designing their
farms with them. I look forward to gain practical experience in
working and living on a farm aswell as gain theoretical knowlegde
about the backend and business side of farming. I am excited to share
my creative process with others and gain a lot of different
perspectives on farming/life.
The plane lands at around 14:30 and I hope on hitchhiking at least one or two hours towards the farm which is about four hours driving distance from the airport, before sundown.