Thursday, November 14, 2013

Water, Water Everywhere

































Today we had a lesson on Chicken Care.  I had a lesson on water.  When you have the hose it should always be on shower.  The big white one is for the big scrubber.

~Mansur, Lower Elementary






Creating Compost


Today Farmer Mark taught a lesson in composting.  As usual, the lesson was a hands-on work session.  After turning the compost material by shoveling it from one bin to the next, the students then moved on to the beds to remove some spent plants.  And they took most of those plants where?  They carried them back across the farm to the compost bins the the compost cycle can begin again.













Thursday, October 31, 2013

All in a (Hard) Day's Work















Today at farm we found out that Arugula went missing.  That cat was so sweet.  Then we learned how to clean the tools.  They were surprisingly easy to clean. And I thoroughly cleaned the chicken coop which was disgusting.  We also learned how to weed the plant beds.  Weeding was lots of fun!  I honestly think farm is my favorite subject!

~Sam, Upper Elementary













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Fantastic Farm Hike


At chicken care my group did feed.  Then we did a farm hike.  It was like a scavenger hunt.  We had a piece of paper and a pencil.  There were questions on the paper.  One question was: Which vitamin are blueberries very high in?  Answer: Vitamin K

~ Bailey, Lower Elementary














Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Primary Farm Fun


































This week the Primary classes had lots of fun at the farm!  First they gathered some hay to put a fresh layer all along the ground for the chickens.
















They also loaded the feeder with chicken feed so our feathery friends would have something to eat.

































Our special chickens need more that just dry feed.  They also like to have greens.  So the children pulled some weeds and other plants from some of the garden beds and worked together to collect them into a container that they then carried over to toss around for the chickens to graze.



































While they were pulling plants to feed to the chickens Farmer Catherine and Farmer Amanda told  the children that they had thought that they may want to pull the flowers out of a particular bed to plant something else there, but then they noticed many honey bees buzzing from petal to petal.  The farmers explained the importance of the job those bees are doing and decided to leave the bright yellow flowers in their bed for now.















The children then gathered the eggs from the coop and passed them one by one down the line to be placed in the egg carton.















After finishing up with the eggs they all washed their hands well and left some very happy chickens to graze.



































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