City Kids - Week 15

Look what is happening in the garden.

Tomatoe plant in greenhouse has flowers

Watermelon in the ground in the greenhouse

Eggplant in greenhouse!

Corn seeds planted in mounds

The pea plants are getting so big!!

The bees are out pollinating all our flowers!!  Go Bees Go!

In the small animal barn we had 2 more calves born this week and the rest are growing so fast.

Emilio - Elsa's bull calf
Born: 6-7-17

Angie - Angelina's heifer calf
Born: 6-8-17

Mazerati, Lexus's heifer calf from last friday

Trillium and Whales looking on.

Lastly our mother Robin update:

4 eggs can now be seen.

City Kids - Week 14

We have new calves on the farm!!

Trillium - Callalily's bull calf

Lexus' heifer calf

Trillium was born 5-27-17

Born this very morning bright and early a new heifer calf, still unnamed.  (We need a good car name for her.)

Meat Chickens sunning themselves

After many days of rain
(a totally of 6.91 inches in May)
there was some sunshine yesterday
and the animals were enjoying themselves.

Heifer catching some rays

From the dorm we have been watching a Robin build her nest right at our porch, and now there are eggs!!  (I will keep updated photos on her so we can watch for them to hatch and grow.)

Mother Robin

Her Nest on our porch roof

3 eggs are seen in her nest

The garden, like usual this time of year,

is just getting greener and greener, 

with more and more plants being added.

The beans are sprouting!!

A surprise crop of mushrooms growing in
the hay bale.

Potato patch prepared and ready
for students to plant in next week.

First cutting of hay!

Not in our garden, but on the farm: wild strawberry plants blooming

June's Photos

It is really green!!  

Looking at May's photos it is hard to believe the trees have changed so much.

If you look close enough in the farm photo you can see a heifer outside.

Times flies so fast the apple blossoms have come and gone.

Woods

Meditation Path

Garden

Apple Orchard

Farm

City Kids - Week 13

As the students were leaving last week Windsor had her calf!!!

Willy, our new bull calf!

Luna

This week the calves had some adventures.

The Small Animal Barn was getting power washed, so 

the calves got to live in the outside pens for

Whales

a couple days before being moved back inside today.

Luna and Whales wanted pictures in their new homes.

The animals are outside!!  It was that lucky time of year where the farmers got to experience all the animals moving to the outside pastures for the first time.

Dairy Cows

Heifers

Jewel, Pilot, and Springberry

    Not only were Jewel, Pilot, and Springberry moved outside they were also weaned this week.  They enjoy the sunshine, but are missing their milk.

In the garden there was also a lot of activity. 

 

Tomatoes transplanted

124 in romanesco, broccoli, and cauliflower

Herbs in the spiral

Onions sprouted in greenhouse

Greenhouse tomatoes are getting so big!!

Out in our natural world, the farmers saw a goldfinch in the garden and the ash tree leaves emerged.