Tuesday was a fun, eventful and HOT day!
We had Youth Director, Kris Lott and his 
youth group from Calvary United Methodist Church come out to the farm for a day of work. Mondays and Tuesdays are usually very busy days for us so the kids got to see some of the workings of a farm. I think some of them were suprised by the amount of work and the type of work. There is so much that goes into running and maintaining a farm. One of the boys said, "Wow I thought we were just going to feed some animals." They worked so hard and were such good sports. We had several projects going on.
Several of the youth group went to Ethridge, which is where we have our Produce Packaging site. They observed and participated in the unloading of produce, packaging of eggs, inventorying of meats, then setting up the assembly line and preparing the boxes. I'm inserting a cute little video of our "Share Box Building" this video doesn't include the youth group it was shot last summer, but I'm also putting up several photos of the kids and the work that was done yesterday.
The rest of the group 
stayed at our farm where we raise all kinds of chickens, pigs and sheep (in addition to our barnyard animals). We had one group of folks working with Ricky and Rachel in Chicken Packaging. We cut up a portion of the chickens and we package the rest of the chickens whole. So this group worked on draining the chickens after they chill overnight and then packaging and weighing and boxing up the packages for freezing.
One of the crews went on rock detail. The farm is in a hollow and we have a lot of rocky creek gravel. Larger rocks make their way into the pastures and can be dangerous for the animals and the machinery. After picking up the rocks they looked like they had fun dumping them "back to whence they came... " in the creek.
Another crew worked on cleaning and organizing. We have a few concrete pads where we store building and fencing materials so every so often it needs to be cleared off, cleaned off and reorganized.
The last group worked on the biggest 
project of the day. They set fence posts. Typically when you put up fence, (and this does vary depending on which livestock will be behind the fence), but typically you set wooden posts in the corners and then every so often along the fence line. You then put T-posts, which aren’t as sturdy but saves some on money, in between the wooden posts, then you string the wire. So this was a very large project and especially in the field in the heat of the day. They sure worked hard!
Thank you so much Calvary Youth Group!!!
