The barn remont (remodel) plan

 During the month of March they recieved an official title for the barn that they bought at the collective farm by purchasing shares from members of the former collective. Many people in the village have them, and the ones holding papers for the bulildings had little chance to get anything for them, so they were happy to sell them for cash money. Once they were able to buy enough certificates, they bought this barn, one of three on the property.

The collective barn that was purchased

Inside the barn before they started

they bought a few other things like the water tower

 This barn will serve two purposes, one being a place to teach and train the student in the agricultural track of the trade school. The other is to provide an income so that the profits will fund the trade school over the years, of course, first it needs money to build and stock the dairy farm. Cows here in Ukraine cost almost the same as ones in North America.

The shell of the barn will be turned into a freestall barn and they will build and equipt a simple milk parlor, this year if the money is donated, or next year. Then they will just raise heifers (young animals) this winter in the barn, with the plan of milking cows sometime in 2013, maybe fall.