Other People's Farms

Saturday, we joined the Homeschool Master Gardening Club on a field trip to a local urban farm.  The family specialized in peppers and tomatoes - lots of peppers and tomatoes!  They also had quite the advanced set up for watering them all with rain barrels.  Chris had a long discussion with the owner about his set-up; Chris really wants to expand our current collection system.  Kids liked the chickens and the swings the most.  I appreciated how they used the chickens to turn their compost pile, and how they used an old plastic playhouse in their run (wish we hadn't donated ours last year).  After, we went to check out a Food Co-op run by a homeschool family.  As I am getting more and more into making bread I really need to buy in bulk to make the most out of the cost savings.

Saturday, was a very informative day but we were constantly reminded that it had one major flaw, there had been no goats.  Amber was determined that all farms have goats and therefore we should have seen them yesterday.  As of Sunday morning she still wasn't over the disappointment so we decided we'd best go find some goats to see and pet.

Thankfully, I knew just the place "Historic Oak View Park".  They have the cutest Nubian goats there and a great interactive play area.  The boys had been wanting to fish and as they had a fishing pond I figured we could incorporate the wishes of everyone.

The park turned out to be a huge success.  Sarge came to life (first time in a long time), the goats really got him going, it was hysterical.  Amber, who loves goats to begin with, quite enjoyed her dogs positive reaction to them as well.  The boys all got some bites but Jared ended up the with only catch.  In fact, it was his first time catching a fish!  Mission Accomplished!