Animals
- Farm Livin' Is The Life For Me....
It's hard to believe that all of Summer's excitement is behind us now.And yet in a way, it's kind of nice to have life slow down a bit. Waking up with no required activities, other than the long list of farm choresthat need attending to,...
- Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!from Tom... and Chuck... who are permanently pardoned from Thanksgiving Dinner! And from all of the rest of us at Bee Haven Acres.May your bellies be filled with turkey,and your hearts be filled with loveon this special day of thanks....
- It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!
By now you probably know that I think every day on the farm is a good day!Every once in a while, though, a magical day comes along. You know the kind....The sun is shining through puffy storybook clouds.The air is fresh and light; humidity lifted, a...
- This Is What Happens.....
When you warm your socks on the woodstove! We were treated to a special day on the farm with the twins and their significant others. We treated our special guests to the pleasures of pasture cleaning...arming each with a fresh manure rake. A lunch...
- The Life Cycle Of Gardening....
Bee Haven Acres is coming into the close of our harvesting season. We are inundated with tomatoes, corn,and peppers but most of the other vegetables have gone to seed. Our last zucchinis, cabbages, cucumbers, green beans and broccoli were harvested this...
Animals
A Special Day With Zoe
I spent the day, yesterday, with a special young lady...
a delightful ten year old, named Zoe, whose vocabulary rivals most adults';
and whose enthusiasm and zest for life and all of its beauty is a wonderful thing to experience.
She is the most appreciative youngster I have ever encountered...
a very rare gem.
She came to spend a special day at the farm...
an entire day filled with farm chores and animal care.
She arrived at 6:30 AM in her overalls, ready to work
And work she did!
We did the usual farm chores...
animal feeding, watering, manure clean up,
and then set about to accomplish all that she had on her mental "to do" list for the day.
Besides spending time with all of the animals,
she hoped to...
pick vegetables in the garden...
feed carrots to the pigs...
practice her photography...
hold a butterfly...
bath a horse...
collect eggs...
and hold a chicken...
simple, everyday farm joys,
that become life-long memories for a ten year old!
She helped Amanda and I prepare a garden fresh dinner...
fresh guacamole and Mexican lasagna, filled with the vegetables we had earlier harvested.
This is one of my favorite things about farm life:
sharing it with children.
Children remind us to slow down,
to take it all in,
to savor it.
The beauty of the farm is that it gives children a chance to really
experience nature and sink their teeth into it.
Nothing compares to the smiles worn from ear to ear during their visit!
Thanks Zoe for a super fantastic day!!
- Farm Livin' Is The Life For Me....
It's hard to believe that all of Summer's excitement is behind us now.And yet in a way, it's kind of nice to have life slow down a bit. Waking up with no required activities, other than the long list of farm choresthat need attending to,...
- Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!from Tom... and Chuck... who are permanently pardoned from Thanksgiving Dinner! And from all of the rest of us at Bee Haven Acres.May your bellies be filled with turkey,and your hearts be filled with loveon this special day of thanks....
- It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!
By now you probably know that I think every day on the farm is a good day!Every once in a while, though, a magical day comes along. You know the kind....The sun is shining through puffy storybook clouds.The air is fresh and light; humidity lifted, a...
- This Is What Happens.....
When you warm your socks on the woodstove! We were treated to a special day on the farm with the twins and their significant others. We treated our special guests to the pleasures of pasture cleaning...arming each with a fresh manure rake. A lunch...
- The Life Cycle Of Gardening....
Bee Haven Acres is coming into the close of our harvesting season. We are inundated with tomatoes, corn,and peppers but most of the other vegetables have gone to seed. Our last zucchinis, cabbages, cucumbers, green beans and broccoli were harvested this...