The Bonnin family were FARMERS on one Wednesday afternoon! Daniel arranged with our c.s.a.(community supported agriculture) farmer Paul Gregory to let us come and see how the farm works. We planted tomatoes, picked some weeds, covered some beet beds and even harvested a bag of Swiss chard to take home! Farmer Gregory was really informative with the kids and his 84 year old mother even made us some lemonade during our break time!
Different views of the farm
The boys really enjoyed the opportunity given by Mr Gregory to plant some tomato plants.
Potatoes and tomatoes are in the same family so both of these plants are always planted next to each other at the Gregory's farm.
Moving on to weeding and eating Swiss chard fresh from the ground. I wasn't sure whether the boys were either really hungry or they actually love the chard. But they kept asking for more.
Emir took weeding seriously.
And enjoying his time at the farm.
Compost pile, some from kitchen scraps from restaurants nearby.
Last thing we did was to plant beet seeds.
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