One of our very own Fellowship came to visit yesterday with her husband and their daughters. Deb and her husband are working towards having their own farmy but in the meantime she is growing her own pig out here in my barn (Number Three) and soon she will have some meat chickens underway (they come in a week or so – I must check my Sheila Calendar). Good clean food is important to this family. So they fit right in.
This is Naomi and Lili above and below Naomi and one of the chicks.
One perfect moment.
Lili was dogged everywhere she went by dogs, they adored her, even when she forgot herself and played with a pig. At one point Ton was observed laid out on the floor with his head in her lap.
And Naomi the youngest just played all day. Glorious.
There is a very special place in my heart for children who love to live. These are two such children.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
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How lovely for the girls to be able to see how life can be, and that farm animals can have a good life if raised a particular way. Perhaps you should take older kids for work experience so they can learn the practicalities? It would be another pair of hands…
I have made offers, even to the ag classes in a local school, but no-one wants to actually farm, certainly not for the experience.. c
How much they miss. What I wouldn’t have given for such an opportunity when I was in the last two years of high school.
I suppose most children would imagine large-scale, broad acre farming or intensive animal rearing and not find it very attractive. Shame you can’t share all the great things about the way you raise your food and the relationships you have with your breeding stock and working animals…
Loved your pictures today! Great to see kids running free with the animals.
Hugs, Lyn
Happy Mother’s Day Celi! All those “Kids” on your farm have a lovey, caring, hard working Mommy – YOU!
Boo, Ton, Marmalade, Tima, Sheila and little Poppy, Daisy, Queenie, the little Bobby boys, Marcel, all the Chooks, and many more on your farm – have a great Mommy!! And all your other “real” Kids have a great Mommy! You are a real Dear – Happy Mother’s Day
Ms Carol
Thank you Carol. I hope you also are having a glorious day.. c
I know the girls will be chattering about their farmy visit for weeks to come. Great pics. Have a great day!
Couldn’t have had a better Mother’s Day post…Have a great day, C!
The one picture looks like a child playing without a care in the world. What a lovely thought! 🙂
They will have a wonderful life when they have their very own farmy
Makes me miss being a kid… Those little girls will remember that day forever!
It fills ones soul with happiness to see these precious, innocent children in this perfect place. Happy Mother’s Day Celi.
Years ago we had a program called Life Lab in our elementary school here in California. It is still going . The children learned how to garden and with it came hands on science projects and having a garden on the play ground. My first graders loved how to make soil with a worm box and compost. It takes some time to convince the people in charge of the importance of these projects. Let me know if you need some help . It would be so beautiful for you to pass on your knowledge and love for your animals and the land. Try the elementary schools.
Now, in future, when Deb starts a sentence with “One day when we move onto our farm” I’m sure those two cute little girls are going to refer straight back this day on your Farm 🙂
did they rename Plonker #3? Laura
Thank you for sharing this joyful day with us. I hope your visitors will become caring farmers like you, and perhaps also sharing farmers, with a blog!
Love,
ViVx
You have captured them so perfectly, Celi. What a beautiful post.
Happy Mother’s Day to you, Celi. If ever there was a great mother, you’re she. I have to say, however, I was shocked and depressed that none of the kids in the AG school were interested in helping out. Really sad! Their loss, for sure!
every class is new though, maybe I should ask again.. farming for them is quite a different kettle of fish though when monsanto regularly donates to their AG and Horticultural progammes.
C, just remind the college in New Zealand your so highly thought of you have a champagne named in your honour. Hope you had a wonderful day. E
I do miss that school. A champagne named in my honour? Now that would be quite the thing.
The time to approach teachers is at the end of standardized testing, at least around here. Until then, their entire lives are focused on teaching to the test so they have good performance scores. Afterward, they may welcome some new activities.