Thursday, May 3, 2018

Farmstay 4: The End

Today is the last day of FS4. At the beginning I was looking forward to this day, and I still am, but now I am not sure that I want it as much as I thought that I did. All of the things that happened: Occupations, Micro Economy, the list goes on. Micro Economy was the best for me. Even though I only came home with $1.27, I still got the experience, and twenty-five cookies, so what's the downside! Over Farmstay, through a combination of my personal odyssey, taking pictures outside, and my science project, comparing the ground temperature to the cloud cover, I managed to walk all of the trails at the land school, including most deer trails, at least twice. Overall I enjoyed Farmstay and plan to do it again next year.
-Evan

Farm Stay 4: Coming to an end

Our Farmstay visit is coming to an end, but we are still having a blast. We are all bonding together and enjoying life out of the city. Everyone seems to be enjoying the animals.
-Matthew


Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Farm Stay 4: Day 16

Today was an amazing day. Our E1 mentees came out to the land school to spend the day with us, and we had a great time. One of the highlights was exploring the stream with me and some other people and all of our mentees. We went all the way up to the tree of life and had a fun time jumping around and climbing trees. In the morning, we gave quite a few presentations on what we did out here, from tapping maple trees to gather sap to making pizzas. After a lunch where the mentees got to try our homemade pizza and our homemade syrup, we all went out to the A-field to play some games. We then went and explored the stream. After the mentees left, we did some cleaning and we had a relaxing evening. All in all, it was a great way to spend our last full day on Farmstay.
-Augie

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Farm Stay 4: Day 15

So far I have been having a great time on Farmstay. Yesterday we did an activity that was probably my favorite activity yet. We divided up into our mentor groups (each group has three or four people) and went on a hike. On our hike we followed a path that Jen had drawn out for us on a map. My group almost did a full circle of the Land School! On my hike we saw many interesting things. We found a snake, snow that hadn't melted yet, and even part of an old car seat. This hike was also a great time to get to know people in your group a lot better. Overall I had a great time on the hike and it is definitely something I will remember from my last Farmstay.
-Henry