On Monday morning, after a quick stop to buy stove fuel and playing cards (shops had been closed on Sunday because it was a holiday), we caught a bus from Helsinki's central bus station, Kaampi. This took us 2hrs north of the city, to Heinola. From there we rode 30km east (a significant portion of it on bike paths, even though it was literally in the middle of nowhere!) to our first Workaway, Toivo, a biodynamic (read: physically and spiritually organic!) farm.
After feeding us, they asked if we were tired, and we said not too much. So at around 3:00 we all trooped off to the fields where we spent the next 5 hours planting cabbage, celery, corn, beans and swedes. Then we certainly were tired! The crazy thing was, there were at least three more hours of light, which is the one actual limitation to how long you can work!
In general, Finns eat breakfast three times a day, and dinner once. First there is breakfast (which is often sandwiches with cheese and the traditional black bread), then around 11:00, the main meal of the day, a cooked lunch. Then after work, at around 5:00, is a small dinner. Then just before bed they eat another small meal of the same sorts of things as breakfast. Here at the farm, its a bit different. Breakfast is porridge, yoghurt, bread, butter, jam etc at 7:00. Then we work from 8:00 to 12:00ish, before a big cooked lunch and a long lunch break. Work resumes from 2:00-6:00 ish. Dinner is another big cooked meal. We eat a lot.
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