Greetings!
This morning, we visited the Riga Central Market. Occupying four Zepplin hangers, which were moved from their original locations many miles away to a location more useful for the city's vendors to rent stalls and deliver products each day.
Lessoning number of regular users, both vendors and buyers, has raised the possibility of their use for sporting exhibits. We asked our guide if it might be basketball, but she was convinced that seating woud be a problem. Hockey was also an option, but the cost of equipment to keep it cold enough would be huge.
Our "Day in the Life" Tour component with
OAT was our visit today to a
goat farm near Riga. Anna and her family hosted our group to share their family's history of an organic goat farm which currently has 80 goats milking 60 liters per day. Anna told us how her grandparents took their upbringing in Riga, and combined it with risk and determination, to survive since Latvia's independence in 1992.
We saw a very complete working farm, which not only produces goat milk and cheese, but all of the basic sustenance needed to feed a large extended family. Currently providing feta cheese to high end restaurant chefs in Riga, Anna is close to completing her doctorate in animal science, and she and her mother have been invited to participate in major international conferences to educate the goating community.
In an example of a small world, Anna's mother told us that on one of her trips to America, she had visited the Redwood Hill Goat Farm, and Armstrong Redwood State Reserve. Pat and I mentioned to her that we know those spots in Sonoma County well.
After leaving the farm, we traveled to sites which memorialized the imprisonment, deportation, and murder of tens of thousands of Jews in Latvia during the period from 1941 to 1944. Our final stop let us view several mass graves in a
forest wherein evidence was found in the 1960's that 25,000 Jews had been buried.
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