Great Country Farms

This year we joined a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. They will deliver a big basket of vegetables and fruit to our house once a week from a local farm about an hour away called Great Country Farms. While the farm itself is not 100 percent organic according to the rules set up by the US Govt., most of the produce is pesticide free and they use entirely sustainable farming practices. Included with the CSA is a membership to the farm itself, so this weekend, we drove out to our new farm to check it out. It is strawberry picking time, so we figured we would do that too. Noah's friends Mia and Greydon and their families joined us (they are also CSA members). The farm is incredible! There is so much to do there. Lots of animals, a little mini golf course, a maze (we didn't see that), rides, tractors to climb on, and a huge bouncy platform that is the size of an Olympic pool (Ok, Darren insists I'm exagerting here, but it is really huge). There was so much to do there, we couldn't fit it all into one morning. We might go back next weekend.

Noah saw a giant pig.

He got to ride behind a tractor over to the strawberry fields

He ate a lot of strawberries

He picked some too.

But mostly he ate them.

The kids love hanging out together.

Noah thought this water mechanism-thingy (like for a gold rush) was really cool. He was sopping wet.

And this is that enormous bouncy platform thing.