Farmhand for a week: volunteering on a small, family-run farm in northeast Switzerland, writer Alorie Gilbert comes to appreciate the struggles and rewards of a way of life that is slowly disappearing.
Swiss News › Nbr. 2007, April 2007
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Farmhand for a week: volunteering on a small, family-run farm in northeast Switzerland, writer Alorie Gilbert comes to appreciate the struggles and rewards of a way of life that is slowly disappearing.
Along the shores of Lake Constance, near the charming Swiss village of Arbon, kilometres of orchards and pastureland seem to stretch without interruption toward the distant Alpsteins, or pre-Alps, to the south. Trees laden with fruit lean heavily on wooden poles. Tractors buzz in the distance as farmers haul trailers of apples to cider factories.
This region is the apple growing capital of Switzerland. It supplies the country with the bulk of the apple juice--or 'Sussmost'--that it consumes. The landscape, while lacking the ...See the full content of this document
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