My sister, her friend and I all went on a fun adventure to a small, local farm here on the Vineyard called the Native Earth Teaching Farm. I've driven past it many times, and never realized that it was an actual functioning farm! I always thought it was just a vegetable stand on the side of the road.
When we got there, Isaac was sound asleep. We each took turns carrying him while we explored the different areas. We saw tons of different kinds of geese, ducks, chickens, guinea hens, and other birds. Then we saw lots of different kinds of goats, some much more adorable than others! My favorite were the baby pigmy goats!! Their horns were only about as big as my pinky fingers (and those of you who know me well, know how small THAT is). They were so playful and cute, they would jump around their little pen, and stand on top of one another, then race around again and butt heads.
We saw the largest pig in the universe, or at least I'm convinced of that. He was, all joking aside, the size of a small car. We quickly moved on to another area, when I noticed that that one particular beast was only contained with a tiny rope fence, and NON electric rope fence.
Down a path a tiny bit, there was a much nicer looking mama pig, with four itty, bitty, wee piglets. We found some grain pellets and tossed them a few handfuls, but then hand to flee the scene when the birds got wind of that!
As we were heading back to the car, Caitlin stopped off at the cooler to pick out some fresh duck eggs, and Isaac finally woke up. We back-tracked and let him explore the whole place.
We had a ton of fun! Love this little island and it's little family run farms.
