My children have had the chance to feed animals at places like Shelburne Farms, but they’ve never actually done any farm work related to food. Since we subscribe to a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that provides us a box of produce from a farm in Maryland during the entire growing season I jumped at the chance the first weekend of spring to spend an afternoon working on the farm with the kids. It was one of those travel experiences that could be marked not in the miles covered (which were few) but in the lessons learned. Such as how to use a hoe
and how to plant peas.
Teddy also spend a good amount of time stuffing potato seedlings into a work glove and admiring the chickens.
It was a gorgeous day on the farm and a perfect way to welcome spring. We got to enjoy a lovely potluck lunch in the sunshine. And now we all know where that great produce we eat throughout the summer comes from!