Field Trip Friday: Happy Cow Creamery

Field Trip Fridays are quickly becoming my favorite part of this school year.

First we have math class and then we pack our lunches, load up and head out.

(We listen to our composer – Mozart – on the drive, plus an audio book.)

We’ve been to the apple orchard, the zoo and to DuPont Forest for a fishing class so far.

Sometimes we go alone, sometimes with friends.

This past Friday, our field trip was far from alone.

We visited Happy Cow Creamery with over one hundred other home schoolers.

(Yeah – over a hundred.  What in the world?)

(This picture makes me laugh.  The nose-holding, the closed eyes, the crazy white in the background.  All of it.)

Happy Cow is a small-ish dairy farm that produces whole milk and other dairy products that are minimally processed and completely organic.  And totally delicious.  (If you are a person who likes milk.  I am not actually a person who cares for milk.  Much to my father’s sadness.  It’s true.  I only like it if it’s chocolate.  Or hidden in pudding.)

At the farm we rode a trolley  (a wagon fitted with two long wooden benches pulled behind a tractor) into one of the farm fields where Farmer Tom told us about dry cows and twelve Aprils and the slogan Mosely now likes to repeat – “Get big or get out”.  (And if you want to understand any or some of those terms, you should tour the farm yourself.)

We drank milk samples – both chocolate and regular.

We milked a pretend cow.

We walked through the milking parlor.

We tasted ice cream – both chocolate and vanilla.

The sky was clear and blue with the perfect puffy white clouds drifting across it.

The farm was a good excuse to wear my cool Urban Outfitters rain boots.

And when it was all over, we brought a bit of our field trip home with us to share with Riley and Kevin who were not in attendance at said field trip.

Per Hawkeye’s suggestion, we purchased seven-year-old cheese to try.

(He said he has always wanted to try cheese that was older than himself after he saw a picture in our photo album of his cousin Hezekiah trying cheese that was older than him.)

We also bought homemade bread and fresh apple cider for the very Heidi-like refreshment.

It was glorious.

I can’t wait for next Friday.

(And if you have any suggestions for a future Field Trip Friday, send them our way.)