Pictures from Month One!

Mostly Nature Pictures from Walking Around™

The view of our house from the barefoot trail on the farm, stinging nettle in the foreground

A flower on the side of the barefoot trail

Reflections of a scummy pond on the barefoot trail (blote voeten pad in Dutch)

Bamboo forest on the you guessed it

The fields of "some type of gluten, oh I forget it in English" -Gert Jan

The unpicked potato fields, over the course of the week following this photo, Chiel, Camille 1, another WWOOFer named Jan, and I harvest this entire field by hand (it's not all pictured)

The farm cat that Camille 1 insists on calling Sydney though her name is something in Dutch

Sunlight through the leaves on a walk to Deventer

Cotton candy skies with cows in the foreground

Two ducks swimming inn the IJssel

Pictures from Camille 2 & my trip to Amsterdam, 9/14

A view of the Rijksmuseum from the Museumpromenade

A Van Gogh drawing from late in his life

Appels, 1887

Field with Poppies, 1888

Montmartre: Windmills and Allotments, 1887

The Potato Eaters, 1885

A Monet, Tulip Fields near The Hague, 1886

The WWOOFers (left to right): Camille 1, Camille 2, and I

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Itinerary

After six long weeks in New York, I set out for the Netherlands today, July 27th. First, I'll be spending a weekend in Amsterdam with my mother (because who wouldn't want to visit Amsterdam with their mother) but the real fun begins on August 1st. That is when I will be traveling to Hof van Twello ( see website ), the first farm on which I'll be working. I don't know exactly what I'll be doing yet, but on its 32 acres of land lay an organic farm (which grows "forgotten" vegetables, wild edible plants, flowers, and wine grapes in addition to traditional vegetables, herbs, and fruits), a cafe, a farm shop, an education department (which maintains a barefoot nature trail), and a food processing department. I'll be there for a month, and hopefully will get to engage in an assortment of tasks focusing, of course, on farming. Though I'll be working five days a week, I'm hoping to take advantage of its central location on the weekends. If I...

Amsterdamn. (The Odyssey)

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