Wake up was at 6:30am! Granola bars and apples before morning farm chores.
Blue Team: worked in the dairy barn this morning, according to team members they cleaned up a "volcano of poop". Ewww. In the morning they fed the cows hay and let them out of the barn to graze and during afternoon chores they fed them hay, grain and beet pulp. In the afternoon all the team members milked "Jeenan". About half the kids tried the milk.
Gold Team: worked in the small animal barn, they made formula for the baby calves, Sweet Pea is the youngest, she was born only 9 days ago! In the afternoon they measured their grain, washed their buckets and gave them milk.
Grey Team: worked in the cheese house cleaning 18 20lb wheels of cheese each. They were entrusted to wash the wheels of cheese that each cost $200! They learned about the two different kinds of cheese that Spring Brook Farm produces, Tarentaise and Reading. They had to get used to the smell of the cheese house as it can be a little stinky.
After breakfast the entire group helped clean the hutches for the calves and moved them inside for the winter. After lunch everyone helped to take down and put away fences for the winter. Then we all went to the small apple orchard and collected (and ate) lot's of apples to make cider tomorrow.
For dinner we had 4 different choices of homemade pizza, salad, green beans, pineapple and 2 choices of baked pumpkin seeds from our pumpkins that we carved last night.
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