Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Amy's Farm Field Trip

On Saturday I was lucky enough to enjoy a tour of Amy's farm in Ontario. This adorable farm was located next to multiple dairy farms and I would have never known it was there if it weren't for this field trip.
Amy's farm houses lots of different animals like show cows, pigs, chickens, geese, turkeys (Bread specifically for Thanksgiving), and horses. One of the things I liked the most was that kids in the 4H program in school can keep their show cows at the farm, and the staff there will help take care of the cows.
The farm also had a full garden that had lots of seasonal veggies like radish, kale, rhubarb and lots of herbs. The produce is either put in the store at the farm, or it is used in local restaurants, which I think is great! They have a great system of using all the plants that didn't make it back into the soil, so when they turn the soil it has more nutrients in it.
I learned a lot about farming that I didn't know about. I didn't know that there was going to be an option to pretty much raise your own turkey to eat at Thanksgiving, I thought that was really interesting.
A tour of the farm is highly recommended :)

1 comment:

  1. Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming supporting the farm! Glad that you got feel like you where able to learn something about farming!

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