Rare Sunny October Saturday …. Ideal afternoon to take a gang of children to the farm for some outdoors fun! Mad few hours of them picking their own body weight of blackberries (one of the only decent crops on the farm this year!), collecting eggs, hunting for nuts and apples, saying hi to the cows, going on jeep safari, falling down holes in the straw rick, rolling down the woodchip mountain, splashing around in the mud (very wet spell!), bbq hot dog and toasting marshmallows and delivering home looking like mud wrestling scarecrows. Fascinating to observe how different children get into outdoor fun however even the most ‘sterile’ of them get stuck in and go home with shiny new willies properly christened.
On a serious note, we think it is important to try and get children in touch with farming, food and organic and do try and do so on a regular basis. But sometimes it is difficult to justify the time and cost and there is a fine line between free fun and health and safety. Still all made it home tired but in one bit and having had a whale of a time!