Heard on the farm on day two:
6:00am:

Aedín: “My alarm is the duckie and then I heard a rooster and I thought in my sleep what is going on?!”

Rubie: “I woke up and heard, ‘Everyone is awake in the bunk except you’ but I was having a dream where I was eating fudge and chocolate. It’s hard to pay attention to your surroundings when you are eating fudge and chocolate in a dream.”

Aedín: “Did you sleep well?”

“You interrupted her unicorn dream!” Cassidy about Violet

“I did?” Aedín to Violet

“Yeah but I feel like I’m going to have a sequel tonight.” Violet

Tess: “This morning at 5:45 I took care of the chickens, cows, and pigs.”

Eli: “You take care of the animals by milking the cows, feeding the pigs milk, grain, and excess scraps. We tried to get eggs from the chicken coop but there were none.”

8:30am: House chores…

Beckett: “Where do we beat the rugs up?”

9:30 am: Lesson on grains

Ren: “We made a bread out of grains. I thought it tasted like chicken. We worked in a line and added flour from wheat, meal from corn and rice meal into the dough.”

Aedín: “How was the barn?”

Grace: “It was really messy.”

Cassidy: “I am not poop person.”

Grace: “We learned that it’s hard to be a farmer.”

10:00: snack

Cassidy: “We almost ran over tiny children.” (…on our way to popcorn and cider snack).

Aedín: How was the barn?

Madiba: If I took my mind off the poop, cleaning and smell it would actually be ok.

11:00 In the garden:

Matt the farmer: “Imagine yourself as the roots of a plant. You want to go down into the earth. The best way to go down is if the soil is loose.” Students listen and push hard with their feet stepping on the pitchforks.

Jett: “To get it in deep Sofia, this is what you do” (he demonstrated the stand-on-the-fork over the soil technique).

Zach: “I really want to taste a mini-tomato!”

Alfredo: “But they are green.”

And then during raspberry picking time in the garden:

Alfredo: “The darker it is, the better.”

Later Matt shares a favorite joke: “What kind of vegetable should you never bring onto a boat?” (…a leek)

Near the barn:

Grace: “We saw a fly getting wrapped up by a spider outside the barn when we were washing our brooms.”

On the playground:

Verity: “I’ve noticed, the older we get the more we become friends.”

12:30: At lunch

Grace: “I set this table!” and then…”Let them eat burritos!”

Verity: “The end of the burrito is the best – that’s where all of the cheese is.”

Rest time:

Myles: “I am not tired.” (Five minutes later, Myles took a nap).

Herding cows:

Verity: “Without cows there wouldn’t be milk cheese.”

Madiba: “If these cows were moooving we’d be all the way down there by now!”

Ella: “That cow’s just hanging out, acting regular, eating some trees.”

Beckett: “Pearl (a cow), stop being a sassy pants.”

4:30pm:

Up on a hill overlooking the farm with watercolors:

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Ella: “If you run really fast (down the hill) it feels really good.”

Sofia: “It’s so beautiful up here. What shall I paint.”

Kate: “There are so many buildings down there, which ones should I paint? I am starting with trees.”

Shoshi: “How do trees stand tilted if humans can’t stand tilted?” and later….”Wait it’s already fall! Nobody told me.”

9:00pm:

After the night hike:

Dennis: “I liked seeing the Big Dipper.”

Madiba: “I liked looking at the stars.”