Archives for April 2010

Kids Unplugged at Fishkill Farms is featured in the May issue of Westchester Family Magazine. The magazine is available free all around Westchester County, so pick one up and check us out. We hope you will be able to join us at the farm soon–it’s a wonderful place! Registration for our summer session begins May 3rd. Stay tuned!

We spent a cool and misty spring afternoon at Halsey Pond today for our Wacky Wednesday Walk, and were treated to swans and geese and puddles. On the way up the hill to the pond loop we spent some time learning about a poisonous plant that has been sprouting up all over the place with the warming weather. For three seasons out of the year I spend quite a bit of time pointing out poison ivy on the trails–it climbs {Read More}

Today was the second in our series of Spring Saturdays on the Farm at Fishkill Farms and the farm is really starting to come to life! We spent the morning learning about the all-important seed–that which is the beginning of almost everything at Fishkill Farms.  Before we started our seed and sprout adventures, we spent a bit of time down at the hen houses doing what the kids seem to love to do most–collect the eggs. I’ve said before that they {Read More}

One of my daughters, who asked that she remain anonymous, wrote this poem yesterday and read it aloud to me. As she read it she said, “Dedicated to my really cool Mom who started this cool program.” Nice testimonial, right? Anyhow, I told her I’d post it here so that she’d be officially published on the internet. The Outside World The outside worldis another worldanother world the fun, fun worldthe world where you canlaugh and play and beyourself everyday The {Read More}

Another beautiful April afternoon today and just perfect for a walk along the Gory Brook trail in Rockefeller. When everyone arrived this afternoon I said to all the kids, “I’m going to give you guys a challenge today–let’s see who can stay out of the brook!” I said that to them because I honestly thought that they wouldn’t want to get into the water today. It was beautiful, but not super-warm, just perfectly springy. No one was wearing boots as {Read More}

It’s our first Wacky Wednesday of April and for the sake of posterity I must mention that we’ve got a record-breaking 91-degrees on the thermometer in Central Park this afternoon. I also must mention that this kind of freaks me out. In any case, we spent a lovely afternoon in Hillside Woods in Hastings today, though it did feel strange to be hiking in July-like heat while looking at the naked trees of early spring. I learned of Hillside Woods {Read More}

Our spring break has been pretty soggy as we’ve had two solid days of cold rain and drizzle thus far. Thankfully we were greeted by some drier weather this morning for our Wacky Wednesday vacation hike to visit the vernal pools at Muscoot Farm–and the days of rain left us with lots of mud and puddles in which to splooge and splash. In fact, the farm’s ducks were treated to a little pond as their barnyard play area was so {Read More}