Collone YFC Member Harry Spends Two Weeks In Finland
Part of the Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster Exchange Programme
Collone YFC member Harry Chambers recently spent two weeks in Finland as part of the Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster Exchange Programme.
Collone Young Farmers Club member Harry Chambers recently went on a memorable 2 week exchange to Finland as part of the YFCU Exchange Programme.
Harry thoroughly enjoyed his time in Finland and would encourage other Young Farmers to take advantage of all exchange opportunities that come their way!
Landing in Finland on Tuesday 24th June, Harry was greeted by his hosts Lidia and Flavo before visiting Helsinki that evening and having dinner with Johanna.
On Wednesday it was a tour of the 4H Headquarters before going on a sight-seeing tour around the local area and met Aimee, a young farmer who was on exchange from Scotland!
On Thursday Harry travelled to his host’s farm where he would stay for the next few days. Here he had the opportuinity to meet lots of local people and Peeka’s aunt and uncle from Switzerland.
Harry helped Peeka deliver hay to some of his customers and got to experience a range of farming tasks in Finland before attending a baseball match on Friday evening, which was very enjoyable.
On Saturday Harry visited Peeka’s 220 hectare forest and helped him with some replanting before attending an iffy event in the evening where he met another young farmer on exchange - Mike who was visiting from Taiwan.
Harry visited a number of different farms when he was in Finland including a dairy farm which had 3 robots.
Harry also got to help with tedding on his host’s farm, where he was happy to be involved.
On Wednesday 2nd July Harry made the 10 hour journey to his second host family. Here he particularly enjoyed shearing sheep - just one of many things he did on their farm during his time there.
To finish his time in Finland Harry travelled back to Helsinki to take in a few sights before travelling back home.
Harry enjoyed experiencing what life and farming is like in Finland and is looking forward to other exchange opportunities that may present themselves in the future.
If an exchange is something you would be interested in you can find out more about Young Farmers' Clubs Of Ulster HERE and their Exhange Programme HERE
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