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The Green Dream
綠色夢想
Running your own greenhouse may seem idyllic. The reality is not for the faint of heart. By James Tarmy
經營自己的溫室似乎充滿詩情畫意，但真實的情況會嚇退膽小者。詹姆斯·塔米報道。
With the exception of a few years in the late 1800s when some rowdy servants burned down the manor house by mistake,
除了在19世紀末的幾年里，一些粗暴的仆人誤燒坎博莊園的房子外，
the Erskine family has peacefully occupied the sprawling Cambo estate in Fife, Scotland, for more than 350 years.
厄斯金一家已經安穩地在蘇格蘭法夫郡這片龐大的莊園上生活了350多年。
Along the way, they’ve been patrons for generations of agricultural workers who’ve tended the grounds.
在此過程中，他們一直是這片土地上代代相傳的農工的庇護者。
The cost of that support has become increasingly steep,
這種支持的成本變得越來越高。
so five years ago the Erskines turned Cambo’s gardens in to a charitable trust with a mission to educate young adults in the art of rural agriculture.
因此在五年前，厄斯金一家把坎博莊園的花園變成一個慈善信托機構，其使命是對年輕人進行鄉村農業教育。
“Scotland is very short of young people going in to rural occupations,” says Catherine, Lady Erskine.
“蘇格蘭非常缺乏在農村工作的年輕人，”凱瑟琳·厄斯金夫人說。
“There is a skills gap.”But first they had to build new green houses.
“存在技能缺口。” 但首先，他們必須建造新的溫室。
The existing ones, dating from the early 19th century, had “become quite shabby” says her husband, Sir Peter Erskine.
她的丈夫彼得·厄斯金爵士表示，現存的建于19世紀初的那些溫室，已經 “變得相當破舊”。
The wood frames were rotting, glass panes had been patched haphazardly, and maintaining an even temperature was almost impossible. “
木框腐爛了，玻璃窗格被隨意地修補，幾乎無法保持溫度均衡。
They’d outlived their natural lifespan.”
“它們已經超出了其自然使用年限。”
The family hired a U.K. company called Alitex Ltd. to build a structure with four sections
這家人雇傭一家名為Alitex Ltd.的英國公司，來建造一個包含四部分的建筑物。
—one for peaches, one that serves as a year-round space full of flowers and plants, and two to instruct trainees in the art of growing vegetables.
其中一部分用于種植桃子，一部分用于全年生長鮮花和植物的空間。另外兩部分用于指導學員種植蔬菜。
“The desire to educate had always been embedded in country estates,” Lady Erskine says.
“對教育的渴望一直根植于這座鄉村莊園，” 厄斯金夫人說。
“They were the training facility for the local area.” The new greenhouse cost roughly ￡500,000 ($649,000).
“它們是當地的培訓設施。”新溫室耗資約為50萬英鎊（64.9萬美元）。
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