Small Farmers

Every day when I drop Megan off at school,

Brendan cries because he want to go to school too.

Imagine my delight when I came across a little class for

kids age 2-5 at the ecological center called

"Small Farmers."

Today was Brendan's first day of "school."

He was so excited!!!

(Although any opportunity to wear his rubber Elmo boots

equals a fantastic day in his book.)

He kept stopping and yelling in his deep voice,

"Momma, take a picture of me!"

The first thing he did was flash a cheesy grin with the baby chicks!

Then we moved on to the chickens.

That is me feeding a chicken.

Not pictured: copious amounts of hand sanitizer; multiple applications :)

Brendan kept trying to get a chicken to eat out of his hands

but he wasn't quite gentle enough.

He was chasing them around yelling

"Here chicken!"

but they just ran away!

Then we went inside the chicken coop to gather eggs.

We saw some farm animals and pet a baby

sheep named Francisco.

Then we dug a little hole

and planted a potato!

Then we watered our potato.

We'll check on our potato at the

next class and eventually harvest

it in the fall. How cool is that?

Next on the agenda was filling our basket with

greens from the greenhouse.

Notice the empty basket :(

Brendan was so hungry he ate everything

before it could end up in the basket.

Arugula.

*chomp*

Spinach

*chomp*

Romaine Lettuce

*chomp*

Luckily other kids shared their greens

and we all made a salad.

We ate lunch together and Brendan

read a book on herb gardening.

And then Brendan fell asleep in the car on the way home.

We loved farm school!!!!!

During the next class we will learn how to milk a goat!

I am seriously in love with farm school.

(I think Brendan may have enjoyed it too :)