Once it was a service to the country, now it’s an alternative holiday
Every year about 3,000 young people spend a working holiday on one of 1,200 Swiss farms. It's an opportunity to be close to nature, see where our food comes from and, for one Dutch girl, to practise French and German. (swissinfo, Raffaella Rossello)
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