Helping Home
On Friday, I went along with Better Half's office staff, as part of their summer excursion, to see a care home established over a hundred years ago. It is not just a sterile building with sad helpless people in it, but a thriving organic farm, floral shop, greenhouse, and gardens, in a cluster of historic and new and under-construction buildings. The residents get to be involved in that life in connection with nature.
(So, this is my first time using the new blog format, and I don't want to go find each picture separately, so I hope you will forgive me that they are out of order. Note the captions for context. )
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| We were given a fine organic dinner from the farm's own produce, including a flower-bedecked salad. |
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| The Linden trees had bloomed – linden trees smell heavenly! – and the ground was littered with their seed leaves, which make a very healthy tea. |
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| This is the old part of the farm with a castle structure and barn, in the latter of which we had dinner. |
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| This is a detail of the property model (see below), showing the section pictured above. |
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| The main course of dinner was from their farm-raised lamb and garden vegetables, with the most exquisite sauce. |
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| A model of the farm property. Note in the back the green strip on the hillside; it is the vineyard. We had wine from those grapes. |
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From this section, where we started, we walked down the hill to the part of the care facility in the town.
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Ooh, the info about the tea was particularly interesting - what do you have to do to prepare that, do you know?
ReplyDeleteAlso that's great that the community isn't just a bunch of sad people with nothing to do <3
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool place! There should be more of those in existence...
ReplyDeleteThe tea is made by simply steeping the berry-leaves in hot water.
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