Open Farm Day - one of my favorite days of the year

Yesterday at participating farms statewide was Open Farm Day and it just happens to be one of my favorite days of the year. Why? Because it gives me hope. Every year there are more and more people attending and better yet buying various items from these farms and the diversity of the consumer is growing as well. I love it! Often these farms have some type of demonstration or in some way educational and it's hard to choose which farm and which event to go to because there is so much to choose from! Yesterday Faith, Andrew and I went to two farms, both organic! Yea! One of our favorites is in the next town over and has a little bit of EVERYTHING, oh what an impressive place, inspiring and motivating. There we watched a demonstration on top bar hive beekeeping, something I totally NEED to try!

Natural wax from a top bar hive.

inspiration for a greenhouse........ (not coveting not coveting, not coveting....)

Apparently happy cows come from this farm too!

This farm has some of the most beautiful fibers in various stages of processing, I bought some mohair/lamb, a silvery color to blend with my llamas fiber and I cannot wait to see the finished product! Dreaming of the finished product!

The other farm was much smaller but had PYO organic raspberries so we took a few quart containers and went to town! I may have mentioned that raspberries just happen to be my favorite! I plan to freeze enough to make a pie, er, for the kids to have enough to make a pie for my birthday. They love to do that for me and have for the past couple years, I love it too! That way I'll enjoy this day twice, the first time with my children in the cool summer evening air surrounded by fields, livestock, flowers and trees and secondly remembering the day again later while enjoying the fruits of our labor surrounded by my children.