Farm Tour

We headed off to the countryside to tour several farms that we buy some of our food from. We saw everything from piglets to peacocks, and we ended our day with a "ham"burger prepared from pork at one the farms.

Josh and Molly were especially taken with the pigs at the first farm we visited, and they enjoyed jumping at the pigs and watching them run around the pen. The farmer assured us that the harassment was good for the pigs, as they needed some exercise.

Josh learned to mill corn by hand

Molly checks out the multi-colored eggs

Our next stop was an organic dairy farm that produces milk for Organic Valley. Josh was very disappointed to learn that the cows were milked by a machine and that we wouldn't be milking them ourselves, and neither kid was too impressed by the opportunity to pet Blackberry the sheep.

Molly did, however, like her "chocolate juice," Organic Valley chocolate milk that the farm let the kids sample.

The farmer's son took everyone on a hay ride through the cow pastures, which was fun until it started to pour down rain.

We arrived at our third farm three hours after Molly's nap should have started, and things were getting a little dicey. We decided to forego the 45-minute tour of the pig habitat, and instead enjoyed a hamburger picnic while the kids played with the farmer's son and his puppy.

Molly loudly announced that she had found a monkey in the garden when she came across this Buddha statue. I tried to correct her, but she continued to argue that it was a monkey. I gave in.

I'm not sure what happened to Josh in the second picture below!