Anytime Experiences
Learn to care for animals and gardens. Farmer Ann is expert in horticulture, animal husbandry, and happy to share her knowledge with visitors. Want to improve your pastures, add a new type of livestock to your farm, increase your garden yield? Ann can help you succeed.
Felting is a great all ages activity where we can create a finished project in one day. We use a combination of East Friesian wool from our sheep and purchased Marino wool for a softer feel or Wensleydale for fun corkscrew curly locks.
Mom and Dad want to go wine tasting without the little ones? Let Farmer Ann lead a kid focused activity while you get some grown-up time.
Whether you want to build your own chicken coop, garden trellis, she shed, or irrigation system, learning carpentry, plumbing, and other trades can be safer and faster to learn with a mentor. Ann specializes in empowering women and big kids with little to no experience to safely learn building skills.
SPRINGTIME EXPERIENCES
Start with fresh milk, add culture, make curds and whey, and press your curd into a flavorful cheese. It all happens in the farmhouse kithen.
Milk quality and food safety are vital. Learn best practices from washing the udder to straining and cooling the milk. Home paturizing is an option. We will explore equipment and suppliers, what you need and what you don't to handle milk safely. We begin milking when lambs are around 1 month old usually in March or April and continue into summer.
Autumn Activities
Harvest, grind, and press apples for the freshest juice you'll ever taste. With many apple varieties available it is a treat to sample the various flavors.
Learn to preserve the harvest bounty with canning, drying, and fermenting. We can make ketchup from tomatoes fresh tomatoes off the vine or Elderberry jam depending on what is ripe when you come. Pickled green beans are a family favorite here.
Winter Activities
Tasty nuggets hidden underground. We know the habitat and season for truffles and our dog Rosie is trained to sniff them out. Join in in the hunt. December to March is best.
Wreaths are a quick simple craft that works in most seasons. Wildcrafting materials from the forest or harvesting material from the garden can help the wreath feel personal and complete.