Yesterday I took Alyssa, Matt & Josh to the Oliver H. Kelley Farm with our homeschool co-op group. It's a historical site run as it was run 150 years ago. I'd never been there before and it was really neat.
My kids were a bit
young but we were part of a tour so we just followed along and participated when we could. When you go for a tour you go to different parts of the farm, meet with a farmer & help do some of the chores that were done 150 years ago. So, the kids got to thresh wheat, help make gingerbread in the house, help pick lima beans in the garden & help chop stalks of corn for the pigs & cows and then we got to visit all the animals. The best part is that if we come back again next summer, we'll get to do something else.
young but we were part of a tour so we just followed along and participated when we could. When you go for a tour you go to different parts of the farm, meet with a farmer & help do some of the chores that were done 150 years ago. So, the kids got to thresh wheat, help make gingerbread in the house, help pick lima beans in the garden & help chop stalks of corn for the pigs & cows and then we got to visit all the animals. The best part is that if we come back again next summer, we'll get to do something else. 
I'm glad we went even if I had to be on my toes to keep the kids from touching the hot wood stove when we were inside the house and Alyssa was very nervous at first - unsure about the pigs & roosters roaming freely, just unsure of everything because it was new. By the end of our time there though, she decided she wanted us to have pigs & sheep at OUR house and seemed much more at ease.
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