BRACAU 27 BLOG'S: Natick Community Organic Farm

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Sugaring Season

It's sugaring time here in New England! And as a way to learn more about this amazing process we headed over to the Natick Community Organic Farm this morning for their Maple Magic event. We had some very yummy pancakes and then walked over to the farm to see what was going on.

Listening to Native American folk tales about maple syrup.

Then we moved on to hearing about sugaring in Colonial times.

They would keep three pots going, always moving the liquid from left to right, keeping the coldest sap in the pot on the far left and the hottest liquid in the pot on the far right.

As we were getting ready to head to the sugar house we stopped by to visit the sheep. Two lambs had been born recently and it was such a treat to get to see them. Another sign that spring really is on the way! Sadly, I slipped on a very icy spot which put an end to our trip right then. Thankfully, we know of another sugaring event taking place at the end of the month so we can see a sugar house in action then since we did not get to see it today! It truly is an amazing process, and once you see how time and labor intensive the sugaring process is you will never again question why pure maple syrup is as expensive as it is!

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Field Trip Friday

0 comments Posted by org at 5:09 PM

Yesterday the weather was so gorgeous it was begging for us to spend the day outside. We decided to oblige and invited our friends to come over and head to the Natick Community Organic Farm with us. We all piled into our van and headed on our way.

On our way back home, the little ones fell asleep. Instead of waking up Will, Mary decided to just take all four children back to her house. She and I decided that we would meet up after dinner so Dave and I could collect the girls. What a treat to have a whole afternoon to myself (and a date night with Dave, too)!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Bunnies and Chickens and Pigs! Oh My!

0 comments Posted by org at 12:31 PM

My friend Sarah and I decided to check out the Natick Community Organic Farm today. We had heard about it from our dear friend Emily, who knows all sorts of cool stuff, and thought it would be a fun thing to do on a beautiful day such as this. So, we loaded all the kids into the mini-van and headed out.