Paula and Rosa go on vacation to the farm every day. But wait, that's not quite true: Paula and Rosa live with their parents where other families go on vacation - at Waldhof Bruchmühle, a vacation farm with lots of horses, cats and sheep. And a tame wild boar called Finja, who likes to go for a walk.
Breakfast for everyone at Waldhof Bruchmühle
Chickens, rabbits, dogs - all the animals are fed before school starts
The sisters prefer to look after all the animals themselves. Even today. At half past seven in the morning, the two of them were still standing in the barn doorway, still unrested and unkempt, first to feed the cats, then to feed the rabbits with grass. „Don't eat everything at once again“, Paula shouted warningly into the enclosure– she knows her secrets. But by then, 19 hungry chickens were already clucking and a medium-sized flock of sheep were crowding around the fence, including the particularly woolly Dexter, who the girls had bottle-fed. So much to do! Luckily, Mona from Baden-Württemberg, a girl with a long, dark plait who is on vacation with her mother at the Schwahns' farm, helped out. And, of course, father Olaf, the head of the district and the calming influence on his 20-hectare farm. He is big „ and very strong “, as Rosa proudly points out.
Ten years ago, Olaf Schwahn and his wife Isabelle took over the Bruchmühle forest farm, which is located in a wide, gently undulating forest clearing. They rent out several vacation cottages and apartments to guests. In the farm store, Isabelle also sells all kinds of home-made products - from jams and jellies to tomato soup in a jar and sweet meringue tartlets.
When the Schwahns took over the farm, there were already twelve horses; now there are 19 horses grazing in the pastures - a likeable mix of ponies, warmbloods, Icelandic working horses, who look like they're wearing hippy pants;ters, Icelandic workhorses that look like they're wearing hippie bell-bottoms with their tight-furred pasterns, and Geene, the 29-year-old gray. The horses are dearly loved by the vacationers. There is the right animal for everyone; even beginners can lead a hand horse around here for the first time.
But Paula and Rosa take the most care of the horses. The two of them compete to groom them, scrape out hooves, drag in manure and look like the happiest sisters in the world. In between, Rosa takes Gitti the quail dog's head between her hands, looks deep into his eyes and then hugs him with all the undying love of a four-year-old: „Of all the animals on the farm, I like Gitti best of all“, she says quietly.
Forest education at the Bruchmühle forest farm
There are plenty of plants and animals to discover among the pines and birches
In the afternoons, forester Olaf takes his two daughters and his grandchild Mona out into nature. 20 hectares of grassland and forest belong to the farm; Olaf is also responsible for a further 1,000 hectares of forest. The route leads through flowering summer meadows into the sparse pine forest. The children have taken their bicycles; Olaf is carrying a small holly and a spade. The Ilex aquifolium, an evergreen plant, has been declared „Tree of the Year“ and Olaf has made it a habit to plant the corresponding tree in his forest every year.
He finds the perfect spot for the holly near a wild boar hollow. While he is planting the seedling, the children watch a magical lemon butterfly and listen to the birdsong. „Do you recognize that?“, asks Olaf. „Those are wood warblers and robins.“ He taps the earth around the holly. Actually, you should water a little now. But where do you get the water from? „I have’it!“, shouts Paula. „Everyone spits on it once“. And everyone has to laugh. Maybe it will rain soon.
Funny idea: even the Schwahn family leaves their little paradise a few times a year and goes on vacation. But where do you go when you already have it so nice at home? „We prefer to spend a few days on vacation farms close to home," laughs Isabelle Schwahn. „With lots of animals. Where everything is just like home. Only we don't have to do anything.
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An "island" in the middle of the forest - that is our family-run farm with the osprey as a neighbor. Enjoy a relaxing time in our vacation homes and the extensive riding trails on horseback directly from the farm to the eastern shore of Lake Plauer See.
