Farm Day: Take 2

Last month, the kids and I went to our CSA farm for Farm Day. I sort of, kind of posted about it here. Okay, I didn't really post a whole lot about it. But I'm here now to talk about it more now.


Terra Firma Farm is were we get most of our vegetables from in a weekly CSA box. Yearly, they host a Farm Day so all the subscribers can go for the day, see where the food comes from and have a good time.

We sure did have a good time. The day was beautiful and there was so much to do at 'our farm.'


The kids each got to pick out an organic pumpkin.

Because of our trip to Washington during Halloween we weren't going to carve our pumpkins until we got home but by then, Josh's had started to soften. Instead of carving Carley's pumpkin, we cooked it and turned it into a pumpkin pie and pumpkin cupcakes. Mmmm mmm good.


We took a tractor ride out around the fields. He dropped us off at the strawberry field where we were allowed to pick and eat all the strawberries we could find.


Josh was amazed with how great these fresh, organic strawberries tasted. He kept saying "these are the best strawberries I've ever had" to anyone who was near him.

Unfortunately we'd had a pretty heavy rainstorm the week before and so there weren't many strawberries that survived. Josh sure found his share though.


While Josh continued to hunt strawberries, Carley and I hopped on the tail end of a farm tour given by Pablito.

Pablito is one of founders of Terra Firma and writes the weekly newsletters that are very informative about things from pest control to agricultural politics. He always includes a weekly recipe for the current produce and they're always oh so good.


These collard greens have been showing up in our weekly boxes. I cooked some last night for the first time. I don't have much greens experience but boy did my dish come out tasty.

The day wasn't full of just produce....


The kids played in bounce houses. Forever.


There was hair painting and kid tatooing.


The kids ate pretzels off strings without using their hands. The pretzels were so hard that it caused one of Carley's top teeth to come loose. That didn't stop them from finishing the whole pretzel.


We laid in the orchard and listened to the live band while having a snack.

And the kids took a bike ride to the moon.


That's what this self-powered carnival ride is called. Bike Ride to the Moon!

Carley wasn't quite tall enough to peddle it herself so the operator would grab the kegs (counter balance and only full of water, not beer) and run around the trailer to get her swinging. She held on tight and enjoyed her ride 'to the moon.'


Josh, on the other hand, really got it moving. It turned out a bit harder than he expected.

The great thing about self-powered rides... the kids don't stay on too long. They get tired and have to stop sooner rather than later.


It wasn't the plan to stay the entire four hours of Farm Day but we did. It was just such a beautiful day and so much fun for all of us.

I'm already looking forward to Farm Day next year. Thanks Terra Firma!