Sunday was Thanksgiving and the church celebrated in the usual ways- a display of God's bounty, singing and a shared meal. Here's some pictures I took from screenshots of a reel.
They had dinner outside this year. One of the projects the team will be working on in October is renovate a outbuilding at the church for a summer kitchen.
Of course the program is all in Ukrainian, but I have a few paragraphs that explain it from the local government site that facebook translated into English. We are second on the program so move up to the 9:50 point in the video.
the other day the farm was visited by a famous Ukrainian journalist Костянтин Грубич ! He saw it all with his own eyes: 300 cows, dozens of chickens, and the cheese factory built during the full-scale war to save milk and sell to people delicious cheeses.
and from Ferma Garry (Hope for Each's milk and cheese selling arm)
This week, the team of the 1+1 TV channel came to visit us and offered to 🥣 have breakfast together on Sunday We doubted a little, because we have not yet had to have breakfast live, at the same table with the whole Country, but the offer is interesting, you 😉 must agree Do you want to see what came of it ?
A little translation, the hosts show how far Nikolai (Mykolai) Polia is from Ukraine and introduce the segment before they go to the cheese house on the farm, where you see Oleg, Elena and Olivia with Constantine he asks how old she is ( she just turned one year) and they talk about having 300 cows and how much milk that is before asking about how they started making cheese.
Victor Dantsev was kind enough to send me some translation of the program. Elena answers After the war started it was harder to sell milk, so we started to process it. Now we have a good place to make the cheese and we have 16 types of cheese and we have made contacts in the city to sell it.
Why do you have the name Garry Farm? (you'll notice its pronounced Harry, because G's are often H's in Ukraine, Garry was often Harry) - Oleg- Oh, it is because our founder is from Canada, he is Garry Verhoog.
It looks like you live in an old historical village. Yes, it was a Mennonite village and even now we attend a Mennonite church.
Then a group of people enter the room They then talk about how there's people who grew up in orphanages who live here and help with the cows and cheese. Yulia is asked how old she is -22- and about where she is from Melitopol (city under Russia now) she was studying there in an agricultural school and now she is here in the village where she helps with the cheesemaking and milking cows (if you look at yesterday's post you can see her with the chickens) I think she says she has been here 3 years. The blonde Yulia that came in the room with her, with the ponytail and blue shirt, came from the same city.
Leila is asked about her stuffie Muktar and then sings a song about mothers in Ukrainian. He says it is a special song by a special girl.
Oleg mentions why the orphan kids stay with us for years- because they have health issues and have no other place to go and the government can only take care of them until they are 18, after that they are by themselves and most of them have no place to go.
The presenter gives them a couple coffee mugs, Yulia is given one. They give him cheese and honey. You can see a couple of our moms with kids behind them, Valentina is holding her little boy and Alona is holding Sofia, who drops her candy and Sasha Borchuk picks it up. Yulia waves to one of the presenters, Valentina, in Kyiv. She says thank you.
Hopefully that makes sense, as you watch the video, I was unable to put translation together in the video today.
Meanwhile here's some pictures from the village. Oleg has harvested honey. It wasn't a great year because it was so dry, crops and flowers were affected and so the bees had trouble making honey.
