Down on the farm

Why do we go on field trips? Teacher instruction and learning from books is important but real life experiences make the learning come to life.

You can read lots of books about cows and goats but to actually feed one yourself....it can't be beat.

And how does picking fresh herbs and rubbing them through your fingers to release the incredible fragrance and then tasting them, walking by a stack of hay bale, or pulling carrots right out of the ground, enhance what you know about a farm and change what you understand the next time you hear about a farm. I argue it is irreplaceable. I hope you feel the same.

Thank you to Heidi, Freya's mother, for making the contact with Tantre Farm and helping us arrange the trip. And thank you everyone at the farm for a memorable afternoon.