we value the heritage of our products, we value the past for our present. belarus 244. many people know that all keen gardeners are a little bit philosophers, but i think not everyone has heard that it was philosophers who became the founders of organic farming. lavender and tulip fields have long been one of the calling cards of the beautiful mother belarus. farming as a way of life

and its philosophy.

more garden plot and grow more tulips, built a greenhouse on the garden plot where my mother lived, we grew 300,000. we started growing tulip bulbs recently, literally three years ago. here again, the husband’s merit is that he managed to involve us in this activity, to draw prospects for his sons. son-in-law, they became interested in this issue, and they are all advanced, so, let’s speak in such a modern language, because perhaps, if they had not participated in this production and had not achieved that, my husband is the main strategist of this farm, we met the dutch.

close cooperation began, and they pushed us to growing tulip bulbs, not tulips, but bulbs, because we didn't dare, everyone said that on our lands, in belarus , we don't have the same climate, what we tried, what we tried in russia, it doesn't work, the humidity is not the same, the winters are not the same, my nephew works on this... farm with his wife, and i want to say, this is the strong backbone, who has irregular working hours, who set a goal, achieves it, not only as much as possible, but lives for the future, sees this future, strives to live better, because well, belarus is really a country. for life, whoever

wants to achieve something, whoever wants to really work, has the opportunity to work and achieve, many... don't want to go to the village, because well they think that it can be hard to work here, it's really not easy to work, because well somehow everything is developing in such a way that we are used to working little physically, but in general work ennobles, whoever comes to us, everyone says that they gain energy from us, enthusiasm, well we all like it, sons never, and son-in-law nephew never they said that they don't like working here , they want to change their place of work, here you work, you work, but also for rest the places are unique, i want to say that we have very hardworking people in polesie, each of

our people, in the summer it is very difficult for us to find people to work, because... that everyone has their own garden plots and they are not sown with grass, they are planted with blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, almost everyone who is still at such an age when they have the strength to work, takes an additional hectare, 2 hectares, the lands in the village council are planted there early potatoes, cabbage, people without labor do not ...

my parents also worked on the collective farm as field workers, then, well now field workers - it is much, probably, easier and simpler than - in those days, this is the post-war period, people really worked very hard and a lot, we were brought up in such an atmosphere, so our views on life are the same, and even more so ... my husband and i are classmates, love from the first grade, in short, everything coincided, i finished eight grades, studied at the tyshkovichskaya secondary school in grodno, in

pedagogical college, in the preschool department, my husband was finishing high school, then... the army, then we got married very early at 20 , tried to live in pinsk, i worked in a kindergarten, my husband worked at a factory, kpal, it was called then, and then it just so happened that where i was born, there i was useful, i never thought that i would return to the village, well, because somehow - that's how life works out. and to this day, by the way, it works out in such a way that everyone strives to go to the city, and not only children strive to go to the city, also our parents, maybe because it's hard worked, they reasoned like this, oh, i need to study and work somewhere in the city, where it's easier, at the moment, well, i want

to say, life in the city is not much different from the village, well, at least, i mean our region, for tyshkevich? asphalt everywhere, everyone has gas heating, electricity, shops, everything is within walking distance, at that time of course it was not like that, so we also dreamed of the city, and i never thought that i would return to the village, never, but i dreamed that i would be the head of a kindergarten and me... there will be an apartment, so i tell everyone that what we have achieved, of course, it was not only me who achieved it, or my husband, in general , our family as a whole, what we have achieved has exceeded

all my expectations, i did not expect that i would be sitting here. in such a paradise, and this is truly a paradise, that i will have my own home, that... i will have such smart children and a son-in-law, i generally think that everything that is now about uh, we have a klandaik, yes, i generally consider myself a very happy woman, yes, despite the fact that... well, happiness, it just comes in different forms

growth, from a hummock to a kozbek, depending on the person, for me happiness is not a hummock, well, maybe not a kozbek, but this is also a high bar, high demands, and i am happy. our life, probably, it changed almost immediately 8 years ago, in 2015. we started all this, decided, well, just

an adventure, to plant lavender here, there was an empty plot here, none of us were going to do this, because i worked as an economist, vitalik worked as an engineer, we met at work, this was our conversation, what do you dream about, i say, well , about everything being good in the world, for everyone to be healthy, and he says: i want to have an ironing board and lots of shirts, that is, we dreamed at all, we didn’t dream, but... we began to notice when the seasons change, that there is winter, there is summer, yes, that we began to travel a lot, we are practically on the road all this time, because we live, work in brest, we come here to work here, because...

the living conditions in the house were very poor, this of course added its own extreme, you are so you just plunge into a completely different life, so we learned that there are some difficulties, well, in terms of physical labor, you understand that well, you have to work, no one will do anything for you here, you do everything yourself, of course, we got tired, but there was a lot of romance in it, there is such a thing, we noticed that the work is such, well , personally for me, it is very rich mentally. yes, well, when you come, you break away from all this, from objects, construction and the like, so here

you kind of have a moral rest, physically you work and relax, you come to a renewed, fresh air, lavender is a wonderful plant, lavender is very well matched to our climate, winters well, takes root well, blooms well, it is a perennial that you planted and it ... quite a long time compared to other plants pleases with flowering, the only thing that we do this on purpose, we lay agrotextiles, which protects from weeds retains moisture, all our bushes are propagated almost all by ourselves with the help of seeds or cuttings, cuttings, some of the bushes we bought just out of botanical interest, when you go, you see a granny selling somewhere or somewhere in a garden center - some interesting bush, you grab it, drag it, plant it.

right here next to me you can see different varieties, the main lavender, which is bright, quite tall, a rich purple color, yes, this is the usual english narrow-leaved lavender, it is dark, a rich color, those dark bushes that are higher - this is the heathcote variety, that's what it's called, when it dries, it ... becomes a rich blue colors, very beautiful, then we have a lighter lavender, this variety is most often voznesenskaya, that's also the name... we got it from seeds, we didn't grow it on purpose, it's beautiful in bloom, many people like it, some even like lighter lavender, the shade of the smell, the shade, yes, it's more aromatic, compared to english oskol-leaved, it's more aromatic, but when it dries, it's so light, it becomes almost gray, we say that there is a more bouquet-like valando, yes.