Over Spring Break this year, we visited some of the farms in the area. Although we live in the city now, we are trying to hard to make sure that the littles has a sense of "where things come from" so that they can appreciated and not take for granted the many luxuries we have. It's so easy to disassociate milk from cows and eggs from chickens and even chicken breasts from the whole chicken, apples from trees and berries from bushes.
One year when I was planting a garden, I was delighted to discover the ways that many vegetables grew. How tall our broccoli got for example. I am a firm believer that even though we live in a city, we can still maintain our awareness and curiosity about nature. That's what we hope to do as the berry seasons and orchard seasons hit us this year, visit the farms.
We met up with my childhood friend Jen and her littles, Grace and Jack to check out the farm for the day. Maggie was just getting on her pegs and was enjoying the freedom of not always being in a stroller. We enjoyed chasing chickens, kissing the baby lambs newly born, playing trucks in the corn kernals and roasting marshmallows.
Lots of farms in our future! And hopefully lots of visits with friends too while we are at it! Thanks for connecting Jen!
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