The kids and I are working with a group of 4-Hers volunteering to do some trail work at Wolfe's Neck Farm this spring. We attended a meeting yesterday at the farm to walk the existing trail system to get a sense of the work needed to be done and what the kids could do.

Of course the meeting was planned a while back and we didn't anticipate at that time that yesterday would be one of the coldest days of the year.

But we were prepared wearing all our warmest cold weather gear to hike the trails and the temps didn't bother the kids a bit.

Laying down on the icy snow wouldn't have occured to me, even wearing my snowpants and warmest mittens. But hey, they're kids and they simply couldn't resist goofing around in the wooden structure.

They also did a lot of sliding - intentionally - down the hills when the adults stopped for a minute to talk about a particular area of the trail.

Who needs a sled when the snow is frozen solid?

This got the top score for sliding hills yesterday.

Sliding fun on the icy snow

And being 4-Hers, they couldn't resist spending some time in the barn. They used a pole to break up the ice in the goat's water trough. And after discovering that the cows had heaters to keep their water from freezing it didn't take G. long to wonder if we could get a heater for our coop. There's no question she has a tough job in the winter with our chickens and ducks' water.

The kids also enjoyed feeding the cows and sheep hay.

"Cow king of the hill!"

And the kids spent some time communicating with the sheep the Babe way. They did a pretty good impression of "BaaRamEwe."

Weird cow eyes, BaaRamEwe and flying hay

There's a variety of programs for kids of all ages at the farm throughout the year if you've got an animal-lover in your family.
Education programs at Wolfe's Neck Farm