Loud bleating, bleating and barking can be heard as one approaches the barn of the Kolecki sheep farm in Schönwalde near Berlin. A harmonious mix of endangered country sheep, guard dogs and goats enlivens the stables building. The ewes are awaiting their lambs, it is lambing season.
Completely hidden - in a backyard in Bad Segeberg - is a real treasure. As soon as you step through the door of the old clinker building, you find yourself on a journey through time, a journey into the world of the former Blunck wool spinning mill. In future, this journey will be made accessible to everyone. The old wool spinning mill is on its way to becoming a museum!
The Lower Oder Valley stretches out before the gates of Schwedt and here the eyes lavishes on vastness that is rarely found these days. The stillness of the landscape is impressive; this is the home of Gunda Jung a shepherdess for 26 years.
In an ancient farm in the middle of rural Vorpommern everywhere you look, all you see is fields very large fields. In autumn, thousands of cranes rest here. The Peene River runs in a north-easterly direction and to see it you have to cross one of these fields. But then there is pure silence, the silence of nature.
The first heat of summer is burning down on the hilly, structure-rich landscape south of Rostock. The wandering shepherd of Gut Wardow is currently staying in the middle of nowhere with his flock of Pomeranian, Texel and Suffolk sheep. Not even the noise of the next busy road can be heard, only the cud-chewing of the animals which has a very calming effect.
On the former border strip at the Schaalsee - the so-called death strip - you now find sheep instead of mines; the green strip that used to separate East and West Germany runs through the entire country. To this day it is almost completely undeveloped. And to prevent the landscape from becoming overgrown, it is grazed by flocks of sheep among others by flocks of our shepherd Detlef Mohr.
In mid-February, Marco embarked on an important trip to Portugal to visit Joao with an aim to learn more about a special breed of sheep and ways to process wool. We take you on this special trip, showing you the different stages Marco visited in Alentejo and what discoveries were made.
Last June, Anja and Rolf Böckmann from Schleswig-Holstein set out for Rügen with an empty van, their goal was to return in the evening with a full vehicle. For they had fallen hard in love months before with the gray-wool Pomeranian country sheep.
A trip to Hiddensee decelerates the everyday life; you can only get to the Island by ship or water taxi. Getting around on the Island itself is rather leisurely on foot, by bicycle or by horse-drawn carriage. Hiddensee has always been car-free!
In the middle of the biosphere reserve Southeast Rügen lies the Mönchgut - this enchanted peninsula, which has something of everything to offer. Here you can find water and vastness, flat meadows, but also hills, a lot of forest and after the summer the pure silence. When the tourists have gone home and the inhabitants are alone again, a certain relaxedness engulfs over the people; among the first people to enjoy the relaxedness are our shepherds Christian and Frank Westphal from Groß Zicker.
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