Restoring childhood day paradise

When driving to the farm “oak house” IN Rikavas parish, a newly restored crucifix house is attracted to the road crossing. The festival of this Latgale has been restored by the owner of the farm Ināra oak. In Riga, after leaving in Riga, after retirement, the energetic lady has returned to the home side and restored her grandfather's home, as she says, by creating a childhood paradise that has been preserved in memories.
Looking for silence and peace
“This is my grandfather's house.” I've come to the world there, in that room, 'says Inara. “There was a sauna here, it burned, we made a new one.” We got the cellar, the veranda, it was going to be all.'
Rikavas Inara and Guntis oak moved in the 90 s, recovering Inara's grandfather's home and land. In his early youth, after the completion of the trade technique, Inara stayed in Riga, worked in the trade and catering industry, raised his daughter, but after retirement, he decided to go back to the countryside, because of the noise and peace of the noisy capital of the capital. I wondered if he could find it, because he had to find his sleeves and get to work to make everything fresh in an empty place. “When i came, i had so much power, so much inspiration that all the birds were, everything was lucky.” We took every Friday night from the beginning, and then there was a weekend in the mountains. My husband is a man, a real chyuel. I was buzzing at first, but i did so and did my own. Now it's accepted, "Inara laughs.
“We started with grains, then we gradually bought the cows, the technique.” “The owner of the farm is a road repair technique with which parish roads are also graded.“ The man worked all his life in Rīga, in charge, then he could buy the scrapped technique he didn't need anymore. ”It would be very expensive. '
European money - valuable back-up
The total amount of “oak house” is managed around 74 ha of land, the part of which is leased, 14 hectares are purchased today in the land auction, as the parish of free land is already low. Currently, the main source of income is dairy farming, the herd has 14 honours. Both the livestock holding, the stockpiling and the dairy house in Europe, the top project for manure housing, have been newly built. When the projects supported by the Rural Support Service are implemented, a tractor has been purchased, a deep water drilling has just been installed, the farm also participates in the European Social Fund (ESF) project, employing unemployed persons. Inara acknowledges that by intensifying, it is necessary to make use of any offered opportunity to earn, as well as to learn something new.
“I was in a course for beef cattle.” I like beef cattle, maybe we're going to do it, we don't need it. “If there's a chance, i'll get it.”
A strawberry field was planted on the farm last year. Unfortunately, this year, the harvest is not big, possibly due to the unfavourable spring. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and pumpkin feeds are ripening in the greenhouse. The question whether the horticulture can be a source of profit in Latgale farms is a flash. “All you can do, but you just need to organize everything in a logical chain.” Whether it would be the freezing, processing or transfer of the products elsewhere. And the cooperative would be beneficial, especially for production. “Then you can get back if you know it's going to pay you back.”
Want to save right
Inara admits that there is a fighter for keeping and enhancing the good and beautiful. Therefore, it has also renewed the crucifix for which there is a separate story. “In childhood, the cross was a little farther away. When we came out of school, we always sat down at the cross, and we talked about it, that's what we had. When the gravel was taken, the cross collapsed, the road disappeared. He made this way, and many people talked, and i felt sorry that there was no cross, but no one did. My sister was in Egypt and brought a cross, and i decided on one day, no, everything, i had to make a crucifix. I called the masters, made a cross of the cross, made flowers, greens. Nephew, priest in Luban, John Bech, sacrifice.“ That's a good moment, i want to keep it, ”says Inara's oak.
Anna Rancāne
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