Bralos by Laura Kwong
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 12:47PM I am in a little slice of paradise. I have arrived at the farm of Andy Agouropoulos near the village of Bralos, in Central Greece. Andy has 110 sheep, 2 cows, chickens, a turkey, seven dogs, an armload of cats, 100 acres of land to graze the sheep, an overgrown garden, and a son to help him run the farm. He also has WWOOFers. WWOOF (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) is an international organization in which travelers trade their labor for room, board, and an introduction to farming. I have tried WOOFing once before, and ended up as a babysitter who watered the lawn and pulled the weeds in a family garden, but the farm I am at now is the real deal. A friend told me about Andy’s place and she said it was nice, but she didn’t tell me it was like this. I feel so fortunate to be here and experience Greece as it was fifty years ago.
Tonight, I moved bales of hay from here to there, dragging the 15 kilo packages across the ground with a metal hook. I thoroughly enjoyed it what others might consider to be work. I reveled the smell of the straw, the rolling slope of the land, the tans and greens of the neighboring fields, the mountainous backdrop, the setting sun…I even stopped trying to be efficient with my hay hauling so I could just enjoy the sweet smell of life instead of solving an optimization problem of how to finish the task as quickly as possible. I smiled as I worked. What a wonderful place to be.
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