Oh yeah...Our trip to Amy's Farm!

How I forgot to post these pictures is beyond me!
The munchkins had such a great time.
At first they thought it was gonna be a "Mom loves this so we better act like we do to" type of attitude toward the trip. Once they got there and saw all the animals...well they really had a good time!

See?
Now look at the smiles!

Here they are just checking out the cows.
It was nice that the munchkins could start out petting and touching them.
The bonding started.

This one was really sweet and seemed to like Michael Jr feeding and petting him.

Belle wanted to try too!

Here is their oldest cow.
Her name is Tina.
Michael Jr still remembers all the facts about her (which amazes me!).
Here is my favorite. She weighs about 2,000 lbs.
and she looks good!

Here is their turkey.
The sheep and goats.
I love that they keep all the animals not alone but mingling together.

We got to see the organic farmers garden too.
The entry way was lined with herbs.
They smelled nice.

As we walked through they asked us to be careful of the special "weeds" along the edges. They have little stickers that burn when they get in your skin. They don't hurt you just annoy you. That is the way they keep the small critters out with out pesticides. They also plant different flowers and such to keep other bugs away from the crops.
It was really interesting.

Here are some of the farmers harvesting and weeding.
So glad it is not just my garden that gets tons of weeds!

On the way out of the crops we all grabbed one piece of lettuce...

That we feed to the pig.
Down here are the chickens.

I love their coop!

They have all kinds of farm animals here.
Here are the milking cows.

Belle thought they were pretty neat.

They let the munchkins have a try at milking.
Michael Jr was the only one from my family that wanted to even try.
He was one of the last home schooler's but the only one that got it all by himself and on the first try!
(If you look hard you can see a stream of milk coming out of the teat in his hand.)

Then they brought out the baby chickens.
Oh did the munchkins fall in love.

Tons of begging and pleading could we have one followed that moment!
With a Chihuahua I am just way to scared to try.
Don't want little feathers being all that is left one night after I go to sleep.
Yuck.
So I told the girls to go and play with the kittens before we left.

That made them happy.

We learned so much about farm life while we were there.
We learned about the different animals and what they eat (there organically as opposed to other farms), the benefits of supporting local farmers, quality of food, animal care, animal freedom (thank goodness I already buy cage free organic eggs or I would have felt so guilty), and tons of other facts. Farms are amazing! I support all their hard work and the fruit of their labor. I know that my kids do to because they can't wait to go back!
It was a great trip!