The best job in the World - Polish farmer.

Not really, it's the opposite way around, for free range a farmer must pay even more of a percentage of his intake to buy suitable food, crop, ect.

well, i still think they should be cheaper... :)

So rear your own then, you will see it's not that cheap ;)

Lets get back to Polish reality, do you want to pay 3 PLN at carrefor for 12 farmed eggs or do you want to pay 11 PLN for 8 organic eggs?

I know the answer, but my wife does not and she orders the shopping.

People are willing to pay for it at Alma at least. It's picking up slowly but surely. People are actually interested in the quality of meat now! Restaurants buying grass fed beef for instance.

I agree, my wife only buys organic products, or from the farmers outside of Warsaw. I just don't trust the quality in PL. I know the reality they are all out to make a fast buck. Buying eggs from your neighbors and selling them as stamped organic because you are certified, would be something I expect in PL.

That is possible.

On the other hand, comparing to western standards, its fair to say that the majority of Polish farms are in fact "organic". Certificate is just a piece of paper.

I say the best job in Poland is wildrowers, he is in the process of becoming a movie star,he has women adoring him from as far as Moscow, he is a biker by day, an internet guru by night, and all under the fall of the apple trees.

Some of us have to work in the city...

.. even though his main diet is beans.. he is truly a skilled human being.

Maybe she thinks he is sitting on a new alternative energy. These yorkshire men are a wee bit canny.


That is a nonesense you have use cheap pesticide's for on your land for many years. The only god thing is that products are grown and animals farm in a semi natural way, but that is al about money and the small holdings farmers have.

I wonder, is there some possibility of converting what use to be a farming property into some sort of a recreational area? In the future i might find myself in the position of inheriting some land around Podhale, about 7Km from Zakopane, i wonder what can be done with it, apart from selling of course.

In the States farming 25 acres can get you $100,000.00. Truck farming (vegetables) and selling them at a farmers market or selling them to local restaurants, grocery stores. 12 hour days March through October and than you get the winter off. Farming can be quite lucrative.

at my gandmother's farm, the villagers worked together. At harvest, they would get together and attack each field en masse, until they were all done. And then they would party for a month.

And then the winter, which really sucked.

Ah, the PGR was a beautiful thing, huh? That team spirit.

This was not a PGR. Those were small family owned farms. My grandmother subsidized her retirenment by selling off pieces of land until she died.

hii,
ı'm turkish and ı am tring to learn (polish) farmer's social security. can u help me to find a english web site. ı found krus and zus or something like that. what is the differens between zus and krus? ıf ı am not wrong farmers just paid tax for have social security rights. thats all?

Not so much. Under current PiS` rule, farmers are experiencing hard times.

Certain grower put up a notice in his 1-hectar red currant field: Pick for free without questions.
Interrogated by reporters, he said he can`t afford hiring a machine to pick the fruit.
Thank you, PiS!

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They already look terribly sour.

@Alien

You speak like a fox from La Fontaine`s poem. Except it looked at grapes. :)_:)

As long as you can understand me, everything is fine.