A modern-life fairy tale

Do you like restoring houses and planting gardens? Or at least are you tempted by the thought of doing these activities? Of course, there will be the constraints of time and finances. You will also need imagination, grit and physical resilience. If you would like to relive your fantasies, then watch Escape to the Chateau.

 [Update: there is always a copyright issue, so the links would not work. You may need to search what is available at this time on YouTube.]

The show follows a British couple buying a chateau in France. The building dates back to the 1860s, when it was raised upon the foundations of a 15th-century fort. There are 45 rooms, a moat, 12 sprawling acres of land, and much more. The building has been empty for 40 years, when the couples buys it.

From reconstruction and rebuilding, to orchards and pigs, to boudoirs and gourmet seven-course dinners, it is all in the roller coaster of experiences. It is unbelievable how this couple makes it work.
 
The show is a mix of a fairy tale with incredible amount of work. And this is the reality – enormous effort has to supplement the flights of our imagination. There is no magic wand that we can wave. Here is the website of the creative couple.

Another version of a modern tale is this of the five from Honey Grove farm:

We are a family cohort of makers, bakers, gardeners and beekeepers. We are eaters, too, emboldened by the concepts of commensality and convivality. Our home and land is the inspiration behind all of our creative endeavours and we'd truly love to share it with you...

There are four young people living on six acres on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, and you can find out more about them on their website. You may ask, who is the fifth on the farm? Well, it is Gus Sims, the dog who "offers workshops on unconditional love and forgiveness."

And now I am back to binge-watching Escape to the Chateau.  Au Revoir!