Off to Cornwall...

After Aberdeen, Veronica headed to Cornwall to volunteer for three weeks at Bosavern Community Farm near Land’s End. Unlike her previous farm, this one did not revolve around communal living; there were only two permanent residents with the six volunteers staying in the farmhouse with the couple that run the farm. Some of Veronica’s regular jobs were to pick onions...

...and to collect eggs.

As the chickens were truly free-range, she said it was like going on an Easter egg hunt each time that she needed to collect the 200-plus eggs. Luckily her ratio of broken eggs was very low.

After collecting, she needed to clean and date stamp each egg...

...so they could be sold in the farm’s store, which she also worked in at least once per week.

This chicken was sitting on eight eggs, the record while she was there.

It was a quite a frenzy when it was time to feed the chickens.