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

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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The Great Dirt Search

When we did chicken care I was in hay.  We did an experiment: we divided into five groups of four and got four handfuls of dirt and searched through it.  My group was Chloe, Shane, and Maddy.  I took a while but I found a rock the shade of white that means either it was a red rock with a white core and the red layer eroded away or it was a completely red rock that turned white under pressure but no organic matter.  Organic matter is anything living.

~ Jonas, Lower Elementary