City Kids - Week 22

It is harvest time in the garden!!!

1st Raspberries

Romanesca ready

Huge Cabbage

Row after Row of Cabbages

1st Zucchini 

Also in the garden…...

Corn and Beans growing in harmony

Sunflowers start to bloom!!

Chicken Tractor in garden ready
for meat chicks.

Bee Balm flowering

Swallowtail Butterfly in greenhouse

From the garden to the fields.  We had farmers pick the first blueberries.  They were delicious.

The apples are also starting to get big.

Apples getting closer to ready!!

Moving from the garden, fruit, and veggies to the farm; more babies keep arriving everyday.

Juicy born 7-27-17; dam is Journey

30 Meat Chicks arrived

Meat chicks to soon move into
the chicken tractor in garden.

City Kids - Week 21

Oh what a week,

the stars still shine and the suns so bright,

oh what a week!!

Alaska born: 7-15-17

Welcome to the small animal barn Alaska!!

Arlington had the heifer calf, we named Alaska.  Alaska was 86 pounds when she was born (that is larger than Kiwi, who is now 4 weeks old). 

She is a big girl and doing so well.  She even has the humor to stick her tongue out for the photo.

Alaska sticking out her tongue

Winona

Also giving birth this week (on a palindrome: 7-17-17),

one of my favorite cows, Waverly.  Who had a heifer 

calf also, named Winona.

Guess who arrived to your layer coop?

35 chicks!!  Of all different breeds.

Layer Chicks

New this week: green beans were harvested and the blueberries are ripe!!

We have CKAL pictures.  What a week it was for them up there.  They had so much fun!

Practicing whittling with knifes

Clean CKAL girls

Camouflaged CKAL girls!

City Kids - Week 20

It was a slow week on the farm phenology wise, but it was

a nice week.

It was also the first week of our summer CKAL program!!

Kow; born 7-9-17

Over at the farm Kelsey gave birth to 

a heifer calf, which was named: Kow

In one week already drinking milk from a bucket and eating grain like a pro.

This week our older calves (Mazerati, Angie, Kiwi, and Aqua)

were dehorned.

Our heifers had a bit of a shower this week, they were enjoying some cooler weather.

In the garden the food is coming!!

Radishes of so many different color

Farmers munching away on sugar snap peas

 Also spinach, lettuce, and arugula was harvested this week.

Up in the garden (for those that have not been) is a sunflower labyrinth

and this week the farmers help add sunflowers to the maze.

Sue showing farmers how to transplant the baby sunflowers 

Farmers handling the baby
plants with care

Watering the plants, once transplanted

One more surprise was found in the Garden….

A Garter Snake!!

City Kids - Week 19

 Happy 4th of July…hope everyone had a great week!

The animals on the farm and the garden sure did.

Here is a recap of everything that has been happening this week.

 In the Garden:
     There has been an invasion of bad bugs
and our fearless gardener (Kiley) has been working
hard to safe all of our plants.

The beetle responsible for eating our beans

Cucumber Bettle

Cucumber beetle eatting away

Don't the bugs understand??

While Kiley has been trying to keep the bad bugs at bay….the rest of the garden has been thriving.

The corn looks so good!!

Sunflower seeds sprouted and started filling in the maze

Pole Beans sprouted

Pepper Plants blooming

Potatoes Sprouted

Onion tops…getting ready to bloom

Harvested Garlic Scapes

 On the Farm:
      We have had a streak of births this week
and some moving of heifers.  With all the sun everyone
is happy to be outside!

Looking so adorable

  Peony had heifer calf named Poppy on Monday June 3rd.

Peony pushing

Also on Monday Jamie gave birth to a bull calf.

Then on Wednesday (June 5th), Angelica had a heifer calf named Althea.

With all the new calves moving into the barn it was time for Luna and Whales to be weaned and moved to the outside pasture.  And they were so excited!!

Whales

Luna

Whales and Luna in Cheese House Pasture

Not only did Whales and Luna get to be outside for the first time

so did our turkeys.

Enjoying the greenery!

Male Turkey's starting to do their dance.