Patterson Farms

This week Marissa attended her first field trip with the preschool to a local farm. It was the perfect day - nice and cool and a little overcast. We arrived and met in a barn where we saw a video about the farm and were instructed about how to feed the animals. Each of the kids were given a cup of feed and could choose which animals they wanted to feed. There were goats, pigs, rabbits, sheep, chickens, roosters, horses, peacocks and a gang of farm cats that ran rampant.



Mari decided to give her feed to the sheep. She was too afraid to touch the horses and when I asked her if she wanted to pet them she gave me this look - sort of like, "Are you kidding me? I don't think so."



She thought the chickens were pretty cool. Here is her class - her teachers are Ms. Amy Glenn (go figure!) on the L and Ms. Betty - who was the assistant in Mari's class last year - on the R.

After the animal feeding the kids had a chance to make their own scarecrows. Mari got right in and had a blast with it. Then we went on a ride through the farm on a wagon towed by a tractor. The land is so beautiful here! We saw pumpkin, squash and strawberry fields. This particular farm is best known for their tomatoes. Next year I'd love to go back and pick our own.