Mar 29 2025
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A Visit To The Family Farm In Germany

By Leila

We took my kids to the “family farm” in Germany where my wife’s relatives have been farming for generations. It was a good visit, even though I was thankful it was just a visit.

Farm Livin’ Ain’t The Life For Me! Visiting The Family Farm In Germany

The farm is located near the village of Mulfingen, in Baden-Württemberg near the Bavarian border, with Schwäbisch Hall the nearest town about 25 kilometers away.

Over a decade ago, I wrote a story about how I could never be a farmer…I laughed re-reading that account.

> Read More: How I Learned That I Could Never Be A Farmer

That feeling is unchanged, though there is a certain nostalgia for the simpler life of farm living.

No, simpler does not mean easier. It’s back-breaking work with no days off from sunrise to sunset.

Heidi and I do assign chores to our kids including cleaning their rooms, taking out the trash, unloading the dishwasher, making the green drink (our evening veggie drink), and doing light weeding and watering in the garden. But since my children are essentially city slickers, we thought even a few hours on the farm would be instructive.

We visited some family in the afternoon and arrived in time for dinner, which we enjoyed outside.

I then took the kids for a tour…it’s a small but very busy farm.

cows eating hay in a barn

a cow eating hay in a pen

a cow standing in a barn

a child standing on a railing near a body of water

a pond with a building in the background

a boy standing in front of a body of water

a body of water with trees and grass

a blackberries on a bush

a grassy hill with trees and a building in the background

a pond with grass and trees

a lake with grass and trees in the background

a child walking on a dirt path

a tractor parked in a parking lot

a two children playing on a pile of gravel

a red tent with a blue sky and clouds

a donkeys in a stable

a donkey standing outside a building

a donkey and a horse behind a metal fence

a large building with hay bales in front of it

a group of people standing outside a barn

a group of buckets and buckets in a barn

a cat walking in a shed

a boy and girl jumping on a trampoline

a boy walking in front of a house

a child playing in a sandbox

a group of ducks in a grassy field

a cow in a barn

cows in a barn

two children looking at a cow in a barn

two kids walking in a yard

cows in a barn with cows

a boy running in a grass field

a red bucket in a grassy area with trees and a building in the background

a building in the woods

a cat lying on the ground

Farmwork is honest work…as my wife’s cousins all collapsed inside after a long day, I had a glimmer of regret that the steady rhythm of farming is very different than my line of work. Just a glimmer, though.

I think it’s so cool that my mother-in-law grew up spending summers on this farm and my wife did the same thing…a multi-generational tradition.

CONCLUSION

So what do you think, should I send my kids here to work when they get a little older? I think it would be a very good character-building exercise but it’s also work I’m absolutely not willing to do myself, so it seems a bit unfair to ask them to do it.

In any case, it was a nice visit and I’m thankful to honest farmers everywhere for giving us the food that we often take for granted.

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