Hurricane Farm

Here are some photos from Scotland Farm Day from last weekend.

Here is our set up.  To the left we had small pens with a calf, some lambs, and the pigs.  To the right we had a chicken coop and some goslings in another small pen.  I recently rebuilt the maple syrup display (just in front of the left front tent leg).  It is a four foot maple log that has two maple syrup buckets hanging off demonstrating how sap is collected.  Always a good conversation piece!  We were able to use our new pop-up tent for the first time as well.  The State of Connecticut subsidizes these for local farmers who participate in farm markets.  It has the recognizable "Connecticut Grown" logos all over the top of it. 

Just behind us in this photo you can sort of see the piglets starting to till up the ground in their little pen.  They turned over the entire plot in about 2 hours' time.

This next shots show how much tilling the piglets did over the course of the morning.  Nothing but dirt left!  They were looking for roots, grubs, and old walnuts from the walnut trees that dotted the field.

The next series of photos shows Liev admiring some of the larger machinery at Farm Day.

He really, really wants a buzz saw!  (So do I...)

These guys loved having Liev explain how it works to them!

He had a great time explaining to me how the engine/motor turns the pulley that spins the belt that turns the saw blade.  The kids also were able to shell and crack corn by hand with some old machinery.  Below shows a corn cracking machine run by an old hit-and-miss engine.

There was a steady flow of people throughout the day and lots of kids running around and learning about old-timey farming.