• Lithuanian farms

    August 24, 2017 in Lithuania ⋅ 🌙 11 °C

    They grow mainly buckwheat, rye, corn and canola. It's harvesting time for rye apparently.
    At Hill of Crosses there were acres of carrots!
    We've see cows mainly, the odd sheep, a paddock of lamas, some goats and farmed deer.
    Some farms were made into collective farms but many of those buildings are now abandoned as economics have changed and one farmer now needs a few farms to be viable. You can see some larger scale operations now as well as the small traditional ones.
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