I have been excited to start “Tot School” with Kent since I first read about it months ago. If you’re not familiar with it yourself go check out the link for a full explanation. It basically just involves being more intentional with our playtime and making a point to do a lot of fun, varied activities. It’s perfect for someone like me who loves to plan everything. Of course, things have to stay super flexible since we’re dealing with a toddler here! Still, it is nice having a system in place that helps me pay better attention to what he’s learning. We have only done this type of playtime randomly for the past few months. I’ve read about other parents starting regular sessions as early as 9 months but that just didn’t work out for us. Instead, we have only just started making “Tot School” a part of our normal routine since Kent’s first birthday this month. For this post I just want to share some of the research I’ve been doing on education in general. We haven’t decided what type of formal schooling we’ll opt for down the line (i.e. homeschool, public school, private school) but we are planning
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Farm Friday Debut: Chicken Journal 6/21/12
This is a new feature here at MarriedtotheFarm. I hope to make it a series but I’m not going to promise anything because, well, we all know how it goes when I commit to blogging regularly. I thought it’d be fun to update on our chicks as we take them from fuzzy balls of fluff to high quality meat. We raise at least 100 chickens every summer to provide meat for our own family and several of our customers. We’ve had excellent feedback and a lot of repeat customers. The birds we raise are Colored Rangers. They are a mix of old-fashioned breeds selected to grow fast but not as fast as the freakishly large Cornish breed that most people raise. We have raised this breed exclusively here and are very happy with them. They are lively and prefer foraging and running around in the grass over laying by the feeders. We start them out in a sheltered area under a heat lamp and then move them out to pasture when they have all their feathers. I’ll attempt to follow along with one batch of birds here starting with the day they arrive on the farm. Even though these birds
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