Monday, May 24, 2010

Maple Wind Farm

Yesterday Addison, Daddy and I went to Maple Wind Farm (www.maplewindfarm.com) in Huntington, VT (40 minutes from our house) for their open house day. I read about it in the local kids paper and figured it would be a good chance for Bugs to get out and visit with the new spring lambs, calves and chickens.

Addison & Mama in one of the fields waiting for our hayride.Daddy & Addison on the wagon.

This little ride turned out to be quite interesting as it was horse drawn by two big beautiful draft horses. However, as the driver noted, horses don't have an emergency brake and it was a bumpy, jerky ride that I am certain some of us were wondering how we ended up on. I honestly was thinking perhaps that would jump start my labor at one point.
In the end it was worth it as we ended up in places like this, the free range chicken area (it's a free range/open type farm so everything is running wild in the fields grouped by animal type).

Much to Addison's delight, they even let us inside the electric fence to be right with the chickens. This is Addison's game face as she determines which chickens to stalk.


On the hunt.


It was a truly beautiful day and since we were up in the hills, the wind kept us relatively cool as it was rather warm out. We saw horses, cows, calves, dogs, baby chickens, lambs, sheep and all sorts of other cool farm stuff. Bugs was in heaven.

How do we know for sure that the little lady enjoyed her day on the farm? When we spontaneously hear a little singsongy 'e-i-e-i-o' over and over again from the back seat on the way home. Addison's tribute to farm life.

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