Today we visited Clarcona Farm and Stables.  The kids had a blast, especially Ephraim!  As soon as I told Ephraim where we were going for today’s field trip, he could hardly contain his excitement!!!

FYI – Clarcona Farm is NOT open to the public.  You have to make an appointment to visit this farm.  The owner, Linda Wetzstein, scheduled us a tour with her two teenage daughters for $7.50 per child over the age of 2.  The tour lasted for a good two hours, with the option of staying longer to visit with the animals if we liked.

First stop: Meeting the horses!

…then feeding the horses hay.  My kids were not shy at all about feeding the horses.  I thought Caleb might be afraid to do this, but he wasn’t at all.

Second stop: Meeting the bunnies.  At this point, Jeremiah wanted to get out of his stroller to play with the bunnies, ducks and chickens.

This is a “no kill” farm, so the chickens do not get eaten…but they gave us some eggs.

The highlight of the tour was the pony rides!

Caleb’s turn

After meeting the donkeys and riding ponies, we ate some lunch on the picnic tables out in the pasture.  We didn’t have to worry about picking up food we dropped on the ground because the pigs, chickens and roosters were right there to eat it all up.

After lunch, the kids got to go for a tractor ride.  Linda sat on the tractor with each kid and let them drive.  I really wanted to get a picture but my digital camera ran out of memory (it accidentally got pushed to the wrong setting).  Oh well…

Clarcona Farm was a lot fun!  We definitely got our money’s worth and plan on returning soon.  I was told they have a summer camp for kids were they do lots of chores and learn to work on the farm.   I could tell that Linda really loves what she does.  What a great experience we had so close to home.