My Life on the Farm
I’d like to share with you what I do in my free time. My husband and I live on a family farm in the countryside, where we raise cattle together. We buy small calves and care for them for about two years before they move on.
My day often begins even before I leave for work. The youngest calves are fed milk replacer and hay, while the older ones are fed grain, haylage, or fresh grass. During the season, the animals graze on a fenced pasture not far from our house. When I leave for work, I take care of everything that needs to be done in the morning, and later my husband takes over; he also has a job outside the farm.
Farm work takes up a large part of our free time. We tend to the fields, prepare the soil for planting, harvest the crops, and mow the meadows for feed. It’s often the case that our entire day revolves around the farm until the evening hours.
In addition to raising livestock, we also farm about two hectares of land. We grow potatoes, grains, vegetables, and maintain meadows. But my greatest passion is tomatoes, peppers, and melons. I plant around
150 tomato plants alone, and this year I also added a new polycarbonate greenhouse where I’m growing another 30 plants.
Every year I try new varieties and am gradually building my own collection. Today I grow fifteen different types of tomatoes—from meaty “bull’s hearts” to sweet pear-shaped ones, all the way to pineapple and malachite varieties. This year, I’ve also made my work easier by installing a solar-powered irrigation system.
The greatest joy comes at harvest time. I process the tomatoes I’ve grown, dry them, or pickle them in olive oil with herbs. And their flavor? It’s nothing like store-bought tomatoes. I’d wholeheartedly recommend growing your own tomatoes to anyone who has even a small garden.
