City Kids - Week 10

Another week of rain and sunshine and the farm just continues to get greener and greener,

we even had our first thunderstorm of the year.

View from the Top of the World…..The trees are getting green in the distance

Trillium Blooming

More Wildflowers blooming!!

Garden shed got an uplift with green plants and rocks

Amphibian eggs found in the garden pond

It is planting time in the garden!!  This week farmer's planted radishes, leeks, and onions.

Our spinach and lettuce were also transplanted into the Greenhouse.

Spinach loving the greenhouse

New onion seeds getting there first drink

Cucumber seeds sprouted and are SO BIG.

Over the weekend Willow had a heifer calf…. which a visiting farm family named Whales.

Whales is very aware of her surroundings

Wink and Jelly finally joined the heifer barn.
Where they are getting
along so well with the others.

Wink sharing food with Jam

Wink just can't stop smiling

Jelly getting right in there with the others

Ending this week with a photo of some more baby chicks.  Can you tell which ones are a week older?

May's Photos

It's May and everything is finally green!

Just look at the difference in the photos.  Spring is here!!

Woods

Meditation Path

Garden

Apple Orchard

Farm

City Kids - Week 9

"April showers bring May flowers"

It is almost May and all the rain and snow from the beginning of April mixing with the sunshine is making some of the flowers start to pop.

This week farmer's spotted Trout Lily's, 

Wild Leeks, Colts Foot, Daffodils and 

Trillium sprouting in the woods.

Daffodils blooming by Sugar House

  Colts Foot….one of CKAL's wild edibles              

Trillium found blooming on Thursday hike

Everything is become green.

All the trees have their buds and sprouting

little leaflets.

Students marveling at the new buds on the tree.

While the natural world is changing into spring before our eyes, the farm had it's own new arrivals.

Pigs!!  6 Berkshire pigs, about 5 months old.

Chicks came on Thursday!!

Also meat chicks arrived!! 

(Replacing our recently processed birds.)

And a Belted Galloway heifer calf, named Luna, joined the Small Animal Barn.

So cute, with the puppy dog eyes.

Since I was in the Small Animal Barn, the others also wanted their photo taken, so here is a photo update of all the animals in the Small Animal Barn.

Springberry now about 1 month old

Jewel resting in the warm weather!!

Pilot….still asking for more milk please :)

Wink and Jelly, no longer camera shy, enjoying hanging out together as weaned heifers.

City Kids - Week 8

The world is waking up!

This week we heard, saw, and caught Wood Frogs; 

we found and left in peace a Red Eft and a Spotted Salamander 

(which, by the way, is the adult version of a Red Eft); 

and a Broad-winged Hawk was heard by students up in the garden and later seen spying on the ducks in the pond. 

Just look at the green grass!

As the world around the farm shakes her pretty tail feathers, 

so does the farm and garden.

Handsome Little Dipper

Milkyway calved this weekend--a handsome boy named Dipper. 

Not only was he born this week, he was also bucket broken by our city kids.

Coming into their teenage phase
has made the girls camera-shy this week,
so they have asked that I put this
fabulous photo of Boise and Braid
up, instead.

Lovely ladies Wink and Jelly were weaned this week.

They are now, officially, heifers. 

Big, strong cabbage sprouts.

"Broccoli Fields Forever"

Meanwhile, back in the garden some serious work was underway! Peas were planted in the ground (first seeds in the garden plots!), cherry tomatoes sprouted,

Manure collection for tomato pots.

Removing retired raspberries.

Adding the manure to tomato pots.

manure was added to the tomato pots, and some out-of-control raspberries were removed.