City Kids - Week 26

It was open enrollment summer camp this past week

and boy did we have fun!!

Most of the day camp kids were

locals from Reading, VT ranging from 

K-5th grade.

Sun's shadow in the leaves

Started the week by getting a chance to "look" at the solar eclipse.

Sun's shadow in our fingers

I think the heifer calves loved camp just as much as the kids!

Buggie getting a walk

Kow getting a walk

Heifers trying to get into the
cheese house.

Juicy getting walked

Alabama getting lots of love

All the heifer calves and campers chillin'

Alabama getting ready to be weighed

Alabama hoisted up

And then of course we had to weigh ourselves

Not only did the calves get love, but so did

all of the chickens.

Feeding the Laying chickens

Someone became a chicken

Care taking for the meat chickens

After all the animals we made sure there was time for fun too!!

Enjoying food and the view

Campfire at the Top of the World 

Roasting hotdogs and s'mores

Hangin' with our buddies

Eating hotdogs

Relaxing!!

Have a great last couple days of summer before school starts!!!

City Kids - Week 25

Sometimes even on a farm there is a slow week.

Though not much new happened, there

was plenty of fun for the farmers to have this week!!

On the Farm:

   

Alaska... then she proceeded to open her pen :)

Some of our heifer calves were dehorned today. 

Kow

Poppy

Althea

 From the trees to the animals, the pigs and turkeys got some treats this week.

Some of the apple are ripe and falling off the trees.
Not great to eat but......

One turkey on the run with an apple

Turkeys were fighting over them.

The pigs were also chowing them down

They were gone in seconds

In the Garden:

Tractor A

Tractor B

The meat chickens were split so they could have some more space.

The watermelon plants have fruits!!!

Pole beans are climbing and flowering

 Plants continue to grow and produce because the farmers do so well care taking for them!!

Potato plants have flowers

The 3 sisters are starting to prosper and grown in harmony.

Corn and Pole Beans

Squash

City Kids - Week 24

Another wonderful week of kids and animals and plants working together.

In the Garden:

Carrots, cucumbers, yellow beans, lettuce, tomatoes, romanesco, radishes, cauliflower, and broccoli were harvested.

Nasturtium flowering

Pumpkins

3 sisters - String beans growing on the corn

Peas drying

Garlic harvested and drying

Cucumber

Also coming back this week.....Canada geese!!   

The little dots are the geese by the pond.

Now up in the garden are the meat chicks!!  They had quite the moving adventure.

1st we had to clean out their old home

So they stayed in the wheelbarrow for a bit.

Then the farmers got to carry some up to the garden

Some farmers even took two at a time!

The rest were carried by the farmers in a tub

Then they were placed into their new chicken tractor home

Where the farmers gave them their food and water

Now they are enjoy life in the garden with fresh grass!!!
Thank you farmers.

On the farm:

No dry cows or heifers gave birth this week, which is good; there is not much space for them.  

But all the calves (Winona, Juicy, Alabama, Buggie, Burlington, Kiwi, Aqua, Poppy, Althea, Kow, and Alaska) are doing well.

Turkey's enjoy their whole pen again.

Laying Chicks also, now have the run of the coop.  The larger laying
hens and Rodney moved down to Ashley's house.

Haying has been on going.  Lots of round bales and squares bales stacked away for winter.