life in ukraine

ok this is my new post, I've been real busy and no one really comes to visit my blog so i really didn't blog.

   so living here is real different from living in america. ukraine is a beautiful place all in all living in a village people  here grow their own food like us. the diet  of an average ukrainian is simple: potatoes(they eat them every day and grow them there selves),bread(a ukrainian will buy his bread but can bake pies and stuff like that), lard(pig fat see left) lard is real good food I love it. ukraine is known for its lard they eat it fried bioled or raw  a ukrainian buys a baby pig feeds it then kills it by stabbing it in the heart

ukrainians eat what they grow. an average ukrainiain field is made up of 70-90% potatoes the rest are basic vegetibles which are onions, garlic, cabbage, beets, carrots, and beans. they also grow some fruits like strawberries and may have a place for fruit trees like apple pears and plums

thats a little of ukrainian diet for you

life as a farmer part one

living in america i never thought i'd do what i do right now. its amazing how life can kick you in the nuts.
for i righ t now don"t even have a comp plugged to the net i live in a village in the middle of nowhere like a god forgotten oe too. while Im losing my knolage of english each day (there's a good example)  I started blogging in a hope to get populiar and make money  to go to america.  that dream doesn,t look like its gonna forfill in the meantime i'm gonna tell you a little about what its like to be a ukrainian farmer(and maybe if you stumble upon this blog somehow you'll like this blog and follow me)

ok  where to start: lets start talking about the different type's of livestock in that people hold in ukraine first of all lets talk about cows, on my opion the most pouliar type of livestock a lot of people have one or maybe 2  its poular because it gives a lot of milk average 5 liters of milk per one time you milk it and you milk it 3 times a day but the head count is getting smaller an smaller we do not own a cow but we made a deal with someone that does so that they'll give us milk if we paster on there time (people in the village who own cows take turns pastering them). so i got to paster cows. there wasn't that much to paster the first year like 28 the second 22 right now 19 (i don't paster them any more because the people sold their cow)

I  like rabbits  they are cute little animals  and the babies are adorible fuzzballs and wow they reproduce fast but most of all the are like one of the best meats i have ever tasted mmm. animalists read no further. I am going to tell you what you have to do to prepare a rabbit(if i could show you i would but i am typing on a public comp and all) first how to kill it. its real simple : take  a  fairly  large stick and hit him right between the  ears he will die after a couple of seconds then you hang it by the legs take the skin and  literly pull it down i did not see this proccess but as you imagine it is fairly grusome. the skin you dry the meat you cook and its really good meat . we started breeding our firsts rabbits too! we got about 14 at the moment so i'm going to kill my first rabbit too!

so thats about it for now stay tuned and i'll write more about life as a farmer because my tim is running out. also like how did you like this post should i make more post on the subject?

Top 5 farming tools in the 19th century(or in modern day ukraine)

I've been wanting to write this post a long time but never got the chance. Well this is (on my opinion) the must have tools a farmer would need on his farm.

#5 the scythe: a real useful tool around the farm good for cutting grass for livestock or just cutting down some nasty weeds that are growing in the yard and around the house. comes in many different sizes the smallest being a size 5 (50 cm from the bud of the blade to the tip). And the biggest being a size 12(120 cm). Every body has one we have a size 9. the blade is important but so is the handle. The handle is the most important thing about the scythe and every one has their most perfured handle: some people like it long, more than 2m others short,1.5m some like the handle fat others skinny our handle is about 1.8m, real skinny, my dad made the handle for ours. I noticed the scythe is rapidly being replaced by the weedcutter lately (like the last 3 months). So thats why i gave it only 5th place.

#4 is the shovel- you know what a shovel is there is nothing much else to explain a farmer would use the shovel for small work around the house, also good to turn the soil over in small places like between strawberry rows and bushes, it is also used some times to plant potatoes. While the other type of shovel(the gathering one) is also very useful when cleaning up when shovelling snow moving sand and other building material. Very useful tool.

#3 is a fork, no not the one you eat with but the one farmers use to stack hay and straw. It is very good for moving it to. I've seen someone caring hay that has more volume than himself! It is also good to move cow doughn (old dry only) it looks kinda like the fork you eat with but bigger you may have seen it in the movies oh yeah now i remember its called a pitch fork. The handle is between 1m to 1.5m.

#2 is a hoe there are 2 types of hoes the flat head and the 3 horned one. they are very useful. there are at least 4 in every household, at least, 2 of those and 2 of those they are used mostly to clean potatoes from weeds, plant crops like beets, onion, garlic, carrots, beans, and about every type except potatoes. My grandma uses the 3 horned one to plant potatoes even though its main task is to dig them out. real popular tool.

Now what i think to be the most important tool... Its the... The... The plow with out the plow the world would be in a real bad place right now its is what made people real productive in farming. Here there are 3 types: horse powered, machine powered and man powered. Horse powered being the most popular one machine in second but catching up, and man to do all the small work like digging rows between potatoes. Horses are real popular here for plowing every one either hires some one to slow there land or they do it themselves tractors are used often now too they plow 3 to more than 10 rows at once depending on size and number of plows as a horse can only pull one. Plows are also used to plant potatoes while they overturn soil.

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