Harbes Family Farm 2016

We took the kids to Harbes Family Farm this weekend with the intention of not picking any apples. Because we're played out on that. Kids picked berries this summer, and that's going to have to count for our fruit picking this year. Kevin also had the brilliant idea to drink wine while we were there because it's a family farm + vineyard. Genius!

Harbes Tomato Sign

Play chapel?

Treasure hunt

Goats!

Feeding goats

Fisher price farm- more fun than real farm?

Old-school rocking horse!

Tractor play gym

Tractor play gym

James and Kevin went on a hayride

Snoopy was there too! James was psyched.
Miranda was terrified of him.

Snacktime

Delicious apple donuts yum!!

Time to get wine! Woo! Vineyard up ahead.


Wine + huge pumpkins.


Multi-tasking with wine!

Chickens

Chickens

Carriage family picture

Inside the carriage

Bubbles


Bubbles with the runaway kid I returned to his mom...

Free-range bunnies!

Loving the bunny.

Pumpkin Patch 2014

Gratuitous pumpkin photos post. There's nothing to say we just went to a nearby pumpkin patch, took some photos and bought a few pumpkins. Maybe if we actually carve one I'll add that picture to the bottom of the post.

My little pumpkins!

Love this one! Thanks Kevin!

Loves of my life

Picking out one to carve

Miranda has never seen so many pumpkins!

Group photo fail! Miri was too distracted by the pumpkin.

• Last year's pumpkin photos at the farm 2013
• Pumpkin photos at the farm in 2012
• Pumpkin photos at the pumpkin patch in 2011

Queens County Farm- October 2013

Even though I see Christina and Rachel pretty often, we haven't gotten our families together since we went to the Bronx Zoo over a year ago. Even though we selected a more low-key location this time, I was still exhausted half-way through our visit. In October, Queens County Farm has a pumpkin patch, a corn maze, petting zoo, and hayrides.

Tim, Isaac, Eleanor, Rachel in the pumpkin patch

Dan, Hudson, and Christina

James, me, Kevin- James is distracted by the pumpkin magic

There's my little pumpkin!

We took James back to see the goats he loved so much last time, and he seemed to remember his love for them. So much so he kissed a goat and tried to get a goat to kiss him. Um, yeah. Luckily these goats are pretty gentle. He definitely smelled of goat when we got him home.

In love with a goat.

Everyone even got a hayride around the farm. It was James's first hayride. I was banned from the ride because I'm pregnant, and even though the ride seemed extremely gentle, I took the better safe than sorry approach. I also got 5 blissful minutes to drink a cider by myself. Ha!

This hayride is BUMPY! Or not.

Off to see the farm again.

At this point, everyone needed some snacks and refreshments, but the excitement continued because there was a loose chicken in our midst. Luckily this chicken was also gentle and tolerated kids (not just ours) chasing her around for quite a while before she was returned to her area of the farm.

Chicken pecking at Kevin's shoe

Chasing the chicken under the picnic table

Group photo that Isaac is barely in (to the right)

Also, Eleanor and James got some serious bonding in. They find each other mutually hilarious. Eleanor is 8 months older than James but the gap is closing a bit as they get older.

The flirting


The affection


Mutual joy.

Fun day at the farm!

Apple Festival at Queens Farm 2012

I was really excited about Apple Festival at Queens County Farm. Really disproportionately excited for it. Maybe because since the first time I went to the farm I've been really into it. Also, I love apple cider, and Kevin is a big fan of apple pie and apple crisps. We discussed all the apple-goodness for weeks. And then it rained. The rain was bad enough, especially with a toddler who if we'd put him on the ground would have made a beeline for the puddles. But worse yet, there seemed to be virtually no apple products. We couldn't figure out if this was also due to the rain because we've never been to the Apple Festival before so we had no point of reference. This is a real quote from Kevin, "Apple Festival has all of the excitement of a trip to the grocery store."

Hamming it up

We tried to make the most of it and take some pumpkin patch photos, but that's a little different in the rain. Also, James doesn't remember the pumpkins from last year, so to him he had been set down in a field of orange balls. He immediately ran to one and started kicking it like a soccer ball. When that proved ineffective he tried to pick one up, but again, no go.

A field of balls!

I choose this one.

Maybe we should come back?

Holding the umbrella with James