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Wheat Planting September – October In this unique program, children learn farming from the ground up: starting in the field and ending in the kitchen! Participants begin by helping farmers prepare the ground for a crop of winter wheat: tilling the field, sowing seeds by “hand broadcasting”, and comparing this method to mechanical planting. Using Howell Farm wheat cut earlier this year, kids fast-forward to the next summer harvest – first learning how farmers bundle the stalks into sheaves, then stacking the sheaves into a free-standing “shock.” The hands-on work continues, threshing the wheat with a flail and separating it from the chaff by winnowing with a hand-crank fanning mill. After learning how farmers would then store and process wheat – in the past and today – children finally pay a visit to the farmhouse kitchen to taste bread baked with flour ground from the same wheat grown on the farm.
October – November Children learn why our crop grows so high and what makes “open pollinated” kernels develop on the cob. Young harvesters will walk between the rows picking corn as they go – collecting the ears in a basket, pulling off the husks, and finally tossing them into a historic wagon. Next the group will walk up to the barnyard to find last year’s corn in the crib, before shelling and grinding it into buckets for animal feed. Finally, everyone visits the farmhouse kitchen to taste cornbread and learn why field corn is so important to people and animals alike! Learn More | September Events 2 40th Annual Horse Plowing Match Horse Tail Ribbon Pencil Box 16 Fall Plowing & Manure Spreading Dirt & Worms Dessert 23 Canning Day Herb Oil Wheat Seed Porcupine | September 16! August 29: "Picket Fence Art Show" It was a picture-perfect day for painting and strolling down the lanes to view the mazing artwork! Art aficionado, Bushy the Cat, was impressed! August 10: "Monarchs make a Visit" Monarch caterpillars are enjoying their digs at Howell Farm's newly planted pollinator garden. |