We have been in great anticipation about our upcoming trip to the farm. I made the decision to plan monthly field trips for my little ones and daycare children, inviting my two daycare-doing mommy friends to come along. Today was the big day. The drive through the winding country roads was beautiful (making me ache to move out of the suburbs and take up goat farming) and when we pulled into our destination, we proceeded with caution, feeling a bit intimidated by the rusty farm equipment, overgrown gardens, and lack of human inhabitants. But proceeded we did and were greeted by a nice young woman carrying a crate of kitten, and an overly affectionate black "Puppydog". Two women took the kids (10 of them) and us three adults on a tour of the farm animals, providing boxes of day old bread for the kids to feed the animals. We enjoyed a menagerie of foul...ducks, chickens, roosters, geese, guinea hens and a turkey or two. Then it was horses, various sized pigs, a frightening emu (who took to eating one of the little girl's hair), a goat and a calf. The children also took their turn at holding the before-mentioned kittens and baby chicks. My friend Katie kept one kitten as a souvenir. After the tour, the kids were allowed to pick either a pear or apple to take home. We all agreed, the farm was worth a revisit.
