| | | Dear Farm Friends, Welcome to Flamig Farm's version of spring. It's fun, silly and smile-inducing because our Farm babies arrive or are born on the farm. Come see all the little ones. Bring your little ones to meet ours. Take pictures, suggest names, experience renewal. After all, Flamig Farm is all about renewal: protection and renewal of our planet, renewal of our spirits, and renewal of our love of learning. Hope to see you soon.
Sincerely, Farmers Julie, Nevin, Chadam and Pete |
| | We would appreciate your help...
We have over 9,000 friends who have 'liked' us on FaceBook. Our posts are always fun, wholesome and interesting, and we think our fans are glad to follow us. Might you or someone in your family 'like' us so we can meet the 10,000 goal this summer?
As a thank you, we will be very pleased to give a Flamig Farm Season Pass to the 10,000th person to like us and invite him or her to name one of our newly born baby animals. |
| | All the chicks, duckings, lambs, kids, piglets and even a newborn calf are here! |
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and our very special, Miss IVY |
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Fun farm animal facts to learn and share...GOATS
--Kids most commonly arrive as twins.
--Goat kids learn to stand within minutes of being born.
--Kids begin climbing and jumping off tree stumps and bales of hay when they're just a week old.
--Like human kids, goat kids like to snuggle.
--When bottle-raised, kids will bond with their human caregivers. DUCKS --They can sleep with one eye open - Ducks can turn off half their brain while keeping the other half alert for predators.
--A baby duck is called a duckling, a male is a drake and a female is a hen or duck. --Ducks have highly waterproof feathers thanks to an intricate feather pattern and a wax like coating. Duck feathers are so waterproof that they can dive completely underwater and the downy under-feathers will stay totally dry. SHEEP --One pound of wool can make up to 10 miles of yarn!
--Sheep wool never stops growing.
--They have nearly 360 degree vision, twice the peripheral vision of humans. These are great assets when you’re a prey animal. It’s like surround sound for the eyes.
--Woodrow Wilson kept a flock at the White House during World War I to keep the grass trimmed as a cost-cutting measure and to show support for the war effort.
PIGS
--Winston Churchill famously said that “Dogs look up to man. Cats look down to man, Pigs look us straight in the eye and see an equal.”
--Pigs have 15,000 taste buds! Humans have 9,000.
--Pigs are easily trained to walk on a leash, use a litter box and do tricks.
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Did you see the Hartford Courant story on "Storytime at the Farm?" |
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| Hartford Courant writer and photographer, Michael Walsh, covered the Simsbury Public Library's Storytime on the Farm event April 23. Quoting Michael, "It was a sunny spring day for the families who attended and heard stories about farm animals before exploring the farm's property and petting zoo." |
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Puppets had children mimicking farm anmal sounds. |
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After the story, children met Flamig's miniature pig. |
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| | Hurray! There is still time to register for Flamig Farm Summer Adventure Camp. Kids return year after year to Flamig Farm Camp because we provide campers with a unique experience they remember for a lifetime. They experience what goes on at our farm, including:
• Feeding and caring for animals
• Organic gardening
• Gathering eggs
• Tractor/Horse drawn hay rides
• Pony and Horse rides
• Making a famous "EGGS" tie-dye shirt which is a special summer memento
• Hikes to mountainside streams, fields and mulch/compost piles |
| | | | Whatever your plans this month, please come see us at Flamig Farm. There's so much great stuff happening, it would be a shame to miss even one minute of it. |
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