The competition with yourself

Life with horses as hobby probably brings success at some point, but before that more  challenges than you could imagine. Meanwhile you learn a lot by living trough frustration, hard work and much joy. I practice dressage and jumping on my half blood mare Eleonora, but I have never expected to reach further in competitions than possibly some placements at local level. I get very easily nervous when someone is watching when I ride so already riding in front of a large …

Stay strong country girls and boys!

After becoming a member of the Latvian Young Farmers` club and visiting a few RYEurope seminars, I realized that there is not many people in my country (and maybe in yours too) who would like to take care of rural areas as we do. Young people with a huge passion, with some great ideas and a skill to “think outside …

We all have a RYEurope story

Now it is almost ten years ago, since I was lucky enough to go as an International Farm Youth Exchange (IFYE) delegate to Northern Ireland. During this six amazing weeks which I spent by the Young Farmer Clubs of Ulster, I have met a lot of amazing people that shared their life with me and gave me an unique impression …

Building bridges – connecting people

We are living in interesting times – aren’t we? Smart phones with hundreds of functions, web access in almost every public place, tons of Social Medias and even iWatches are giving us the opportunity to spread our lives around the whole world. We can check the Facebook status of our friends living somewhere in Europe or inform ourselves about the …

What Is A Green Smoothie?

Hi everybody! Greetings from Sungarden (Latvian 4H office)  in Riga! The sun shines and it’s a beautiful spring day, here in Riga! This morning, I made my favorite green smoothie and realized that I want to write in my blog about the smoothies! Spring is an amazing season. It brings nature back to life. I don’t know about you (that is, if …

Only a game?

Rural Youth Europe is an educational organisation. We aim to train young people and raise awareness of issues young people are facing. Our topics include leadership skills, entrepreneurship, social inclusion, food security, job skills… Rural Youth Europe is still totally different to traditional educating institutions like schools and universities. Even though our topics are a bit different, the most important …

Shaping RYEurope

I am writing this on the train home from another excellent Rural Youth Europe board meeting, this time held up in Edinburgh in Scotland! It was a very busy weekend and we crammed a lot of activity into 2 days, including meeting up with local members, the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC). We discussed many things at the …