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Paradise Park Poland

Paradise Park Poland

Paradise Park Poland

 

I  lived in Europe for almost eight years.  I really like much about the lifestyle there…. and I have family in Eastern Europe and knew many people who’d escaped from there in the 60′s and 70′s. I think it’s fair to say I have a romantic attachment to Europe.
When I came upon this post from a lady in Poland who is starting what she calls an eco-farm in the ‘Green Lungs’ of Poland (a remote rural area full of trees), well…. it seems to me it is worth sharing. It seems it might be a good opportunity for someone with the gumption to leave anywhere and go to Poland for a few months and work on the farm for food and lodging. So I reprint the original post, so if anyone is interested, they may contact her. She also needs a reliable trusty farm manager with the same values as her, someone who can manage the farm properly while she is gone travelling.. managing the crops, and tending the animals.

 

Hello Nature Lovers!

 

I have just  started clearing my little forest of about 1 ha in the North Eastern part of  Poland where I would like to create a kind of beautiful and useful paradise park  with flowers, nuts, berries, mushrooms – all these goods for people wanting to  spend here their vacation at my Ranch during spring, summer or in the  autumn.

 

The landscape around is amazing and the nature  really pure and abundant in wild animals, especially wild birds. You can easily  see here wild animals like boars, roes, foxes, hares, hawks and many many rare  wild birds.

 

If someone would like to join me helping in anyway,  from now or later in the spring/summer months, I would be really happy… as I  am really looking for people who would like to participate, hopefully also in a  long-term way.

 

Any kind of contribution would be appreciated, as  the ideas are many and the place offers lots of possibilities: first of all  clearing and making spacey and beautiful Paradise Park full of berries and other goods, then in  spring sowing vegetables in a big organic garden, in summer some garden work and  renovating the farm house and other farm buildings, organising interesting  workshops and trips… and what else we can imagine! Maybe permanent  ecovillage??? :) ))

 

At the moment I live here in a farm house, where I  can host CouchSurfers or volunteers and provide food for  them.

 

I hope to hear from someone soon! Especially from  creative and interesting people :)

 

Love and  life,

Isabelle

 

You may contact me  via FB, CS or directly via Skype: CreativeIndianka, email: RanchoRomantica@vp.pl or  mobile phone: 0048607507811

Beagles released from animal-testing facility

Vickie and I are both animal lovers.  We’re conflicted on animal testing…. but try to buy products that are ‘cruelty-free’ and not tested on animals.
We do business with Aveda Cosmetics and are happy that they don’t test their products on animals. Our cactus is used in a line of their skin-care cosmetics (the Green-Science Line).
We also sell cactus to a leading pet-food manufacturer…. we’re happy when we think about all the happy people and animals that like our cactus. It makes us feel really good.

This video show a group of beagle dogs that were given over to an animal-rescue group after the testing lab didn’t need them anymore. Beagles are the dog most used for medical/product testing because they are docile, don’t eat much, and trust humans and will stay in a cage for their whole life.

It’s sad to think of the hardship and loneliness these dogs have had, and the video got me weepy…. but it’s not a sad video…. it shows the dogs coming out of their crates for the first time and walking on grass.. meeting their next-crate buddies face-to-face, and shows snapshots of the dogs in their new adoptive homes with people and other animals that love them.

Watch the video, you may get misty-eyed, but it’ll be  worth it.

 

Oskar the Blind Kitty

 

Life goes on…. be good, do good…. treat everyone and everything with kindness and be trusting to all.
Don’t exploit anything or anyone. Act rightly, as well as you can in the circumstances you find yourself in.
And remember that things could always be much worse than they are.
And always remember to forgive yourself when you don’t live up to your own expectations….
the same as I hope you forgive others who don’t do right to you or others.

Oskar has his own Facebook page: www.facebook.com/BlindOskar