This week we joined a group of local home-schoolers at Northney Farm, Hayling Island to learn about life on a working mixed farm.
It was a wonderful day! The children learned about dairy farming, crop growing, chicken keeping and ice-cream making! The farm makes it's own ice-cream and also has a lovely tea room where we bought lunch.
I took so many pictures, so what follows is a picture journal of our day!
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| Arriving at the farm - Hannah, Rhianna and Melissa |
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| Learning about milking |
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| New Calf |
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| Hannah with a slightly older calf |
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| The Calf Shed |
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| Happy Girls |
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| Waiting to go into the chicken runs |
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| Chickens! |
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| Geese |
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| Cockerel |
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| Goose eggs |
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| Beautiful apple blossom in the chicken runs |
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| Hannah was really excited to see new laid eggs again! |
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| Older cows almost ready to go out to pasture. |
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| Lunchtime at the tea rooms! It was so hot Hannah changed into her shorts! |
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| After lunch the children were shown a variety of traditional farming equipment and then had a quiz. |
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| Next, it was time for a tractor and trailer ride around the fields to see the crops. |
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| Hannah loved the tractor and riding on straw bales in the trailer! |
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| All aboard! |
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| Wheat fields |
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| This temple was discovered under the potato field! |
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| peas |
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| We stopped at a neighbouring farm to visit the pygmy goats, |
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| who had lots of kids! |
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| the alpacas, |
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| and the kunekune pigs. |
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| Then we went back to the farm to learn how they make their own (very delicious) ice cream. |
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| and finally we all had a complimentary ice cream to finish the day! |
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This was a really great trip, definitely one of the best trips we've done. It suited Hannah perfectly, and as we went with our really good friends it was a lovely day out !
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