Last Week in Romania
Monday the 26th of August was our last night in Casa Butnarului, staying in the valley. We did spend the day at Casa Victoria and Martin gave us a proper walking tour of the forestry on and surrounding the farm, his depth of knowledge is quite astonishing. We spent the next few days and nights living at Casa Victoria, helping with maintenance and finishing our surveying, photographing, writing and editing of our booklet. By Wednesday we had finished the booklet, it contained information about the different buildings on the farm: their original uses, techniques for building, other important cultural notes, and Monica's restoration that maintains mostly the original form. She seemed very happy with it as it gives her a tangible result in passing on cultural heritage to us that can be used in an easy way to disseminate to more people, so the importance of these sustainable farmsteads is not lost in the ever growing modern world. We believe there should be some form of protection and ...