Where the eggs come from (Niels og Grete)

Niels og Grete is one of the biggest organic egg producers in Denmark, they have 24.000 laying hens with a production of 20.000 eggs per day, and they have their own packaging plant.
I have been there for one week, in my 47th week practises, and I have learn a lot. As my dream is to have my own farm with organic eggs, this week has been very positive to me.

There has been some mistakes in the gender selection... (more than 1000 roosters)

Slaughtering goats

It's not a nice thing, but death a part of life, and if we eat meat, somebody has to do it.

700 White goats farm - Stenalt

Kalø fisherman

Rønde, Følle, d'on surt la llet

(Joke about danish towns names, only for catalan speakers, sorry!)

Com podeu vore al mapa de Google, en esta zona tenim el que sería un romanç clàssic: Primer Rønde, i després Følle, que és d'on surt la llet (la granja de les vaques) ;)

Where the milk comes from

We have visited a nice organic farm, not far from here (in Følle), with 140 milking cows, efficient milking machines, and big green fields with yummy grass. I like the milking machines, because the cow is milked when she wants, so she is less stressed, and then she gives more milk (from average 25 litres to 32, per day), and more rich in protein and fat (which is how the quality of the milk is measured).
I like this kind of technology, where animals and human get mutual benefits.

Sten Larris visits our school

After I pass the organization to my schoolmates, they succeeded inviting Sten Larris to our school.
I have to say that I was surprised they finally did it, and I have to admit that I was wrong not trusting them. Congratulations! Well done! And thanks! :)

It was great to have him here, we just walked few steps into the forest, side-by-side with our school, and started to find lots of mushrooms, and Sten explained all we wanted to know and much more.
We learn to identify some mushrooms, and one of them was especially interesting, the "honey mushroom", because in the forest there is plenty of it.

There was a very good mood between us and Sten, and he said he would like to come back, so I guess he also felt very well here. Det var hyggelig! (it was cozy!)

Visit to an Arla dairy in Århus

Past september 24th our teacher Florence and us went to an educational visit to one of Arla's dairies, not far from our school.
It was interesting to see directly how works actually a big dairy, in this case they make mainly yogurt. But a lot of yogurt.
We were lucky to have a wisdom "tourist" guide, who answered all our questions, which were many (she said that, because she has usually children visits), and often very difficult. It was good that she was very patient with us.

Here you can see a truck with fresh milk from the farms, unloading it to the dairy tanks.

Inside the facilities, hearing to our guide.

Bogdan and female farm animals: good combination (they love him)

We tasted many different yogurts, some of them organic, some others don't. It was very educational ;)

WTF???!!!

Back to the school, by bus. Some guys were saying something like "we know where you live", and things like that... ;)

My classroom

As you can see, it's very close to the forest, called Ringelmose skov. I love it.

My practices week

As is planned in our course, we had to work in a real farm for one week, for practices, in the 37th week of 2014.
I went to a farm in south Sjælland, close to Vordingborg, and I stayed amazingly comfortable, entertained and satisfied with the work very much, and also I learned many things.
Those are some of the pictures I took, I hope you like it.

Picking mushrooms with Sten Larris

Sten Larris is known to be the foremost expert on mushrooms in Denmark, and, casually, he lives only around 30 kms far from our school, in Grenå (we are in Kalø).
My schoolmate Nikolaj suggested me to ask Sten for visiting him, and although I thought it was too daring, I tried, and I succeeded. It was so easy that it was difficult to accept.
I ask him to visit the school, and he agreed, but it was difficult to me to organise my schoolmates, so I gave up, and ask for help to other students (Kristoffer, Anton,...), who said it was easy to do it. I leaved the arrengement on their hands.
 But I wanted to meet Sten Larris in any case, so I asked about visiting him at his place, and he invited me to have breakfast and lunch in his place. Such a luxury! Everything was easy and smooth, we visited two forests he knows, and a little glimpse to the beach, and we picked a lot of mushrooms (you can see only a part, we filled this basket three times). And as desert, Sten drove me back to the school on his car... to me and my bike! Amazing! Such a nice man!
The end of the day, well, it was not so nice. I'm not sure if the mushrooms I ate were too raw, or maybe I ate too many, but the conclusion, to be polite, is that I spent all night going to the toilet and "outflowing", like water, as Bruce Lee said :s
Now I feel better, thanks, buddies ;)

P.S. The picture is not very good technically, sorry for that, I sub-exposed it by mistake A LOT, so I had to use photoshop to clear it a little, but then appears blur and weird colors. But I hope you understand that in photography, sometimes is better just to catch the moment, than a technically-perfect picture with no soul...

Rui O Sr Culturas skating

  This is my classmate Rui, who loves skate, and I don't know how, in the middle of Djursland, he and Patrick and Jonas found a skatepark, where we went to skate (him) and hang around (us). Well, I took some pictures ;)

Kalø skole pigs

Kalø skole horses

Best class EVER

Those are my classmates, people from around the world: Portugal, England, Finland, Slovakia, Romania, Hongary, United States, and me. Soon will come one galician (Spain) girl too.