Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Monday, May 22, 2017
Monday, August 31, 2015
Food, Friends and Fun!
The free Community Pot Luck Dinner is an annual summer celebration of local food, local music and favorite recipes. Follow our Facebook page or subscribe to our newsletter to be sure not to miss any Rural Resources dinners, workshops and other events!
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Photos and Premier Clip production: Lorelei Goff
Friday, July 31, 2015
Food and Fun at the Farm
An estimated 200 people turned out for the 2015 Annual Community Cookout at Rural Resources' Holly Creek Farm last night. Folks enjoyed lots of locally grown food, fun and live music by local guitarist Russell Odell. Click on the link below to see highlights of the fun!
Find us on Facebook or check out our website, rural resources.net, for upcoming family and farming events!
PremierClip production and photos: Lorelei Goff
Monday, June 15, 2015
Gross! Camp
Rural Resources' second session of the 2015 Farm Day Camp wrapped up on Friday with "Gross! Camp." First through 3rd-graders spent the week learning about bugs, dirt, worms, poop, pigs, wallowing in the mud, snakes, and even cow farts! They smelled, tasted, looked at and touched all manner of gross things. They enjoyed lots of traditional Farm Day Camp fun, too, like playing in the creek and milking the cow. Click on the video below to see some of the fun!
Soundslide Production: Lorelei Goff
Photos: Emily Greenier and Lorelei Goff
Music: Heftone Banjo Orchestra via Creative Commons Music
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Farm Day Camp: Little Sprouts!
The 2015 Farm Day Camp sessions have begun! Summer camp season kicked off June 1-5 with a flock of Rural Resources' Little Sprouts campers frolicking in Holly Creek and learning about farming, food and sustainability. The week provided 4- and 5-year-olds with abundant opportunities for exercise in the farm-fresh air and sunshine, crafts, planting seeds and an all around good time! Take a look at some of their summer fun below. There is still time to register for the second Little Sprouts session next week. Click here to go to the link.
Bunnies!
Craft Time
Feeding Time!
The Garden!
The Creek!
Happy Campers!
Photos: Lorelei Goff
Friday, April 24, 2015
Rural Resources' Land Blessing
Folks arriving for the blessing of the land on April 23, 2015.
Last night, Rural Resources' staff, volunteers, board members and supporters gathered on the grounds of Holly Creek Farm to bless the land and celebrate moving forward with the construction of a new facility.
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As you may remember from an earlier post, the Rural Resources staff have been working out of a small trailer, without indoor plumbing, since a fire destroyed the building in 2009. Thanks to funding from the USDA and generous private donors, a new building is in the works! Greeneville architect David Wright designed the new facility pro bono and the groundbreaking was celebrated last Wednesday.
Thursday evening's land blessing was offered by Dr. Dan Donaldson of First Presbyterian Church in Greeneville. Other speakers included Rural Resources' Executive Director Sally Causey, Board Chair Joyce Doughty and Meredith Clebsch, land director of the Foothills Land Conservancy.
Burgers, from locally-raised beef, sizzled on the grill and there was an abundance of tossed salad from the Holly Creek Garden. Cole slaw, potato salad and a scrumptious cake created by Rural Resources' Farm and Food Teen Training Coordinator Debbie Strickland rounded out the menu.
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Cherokee musician and artisan Danny Bigay provided a unique musical experience for the evening, with traditional style melodies played on handcrafted rivercane flutes.
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A great time was had by all!!!
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Farm Day Camp: Too Much Farm Fun and Little Sprouts
Farm animals, food, crafts, and a creek – it’s time for Rural
Resources’ summer Farm Day Camp!
In fact, two more sessions of Farm Day Campers scampered through Rural Resources’ Holly Creek farm over the last couple of weeks. Children from Pre-K through third grade took part in two sessions: Too Much Farm Fun Camp and Little Sprouts Camp.
“I’ve milked a cow,” 7-year-old Corinne Southerland said, with a grin. “It was pretty cool. And I’ve played a lot of games.”
Corinne’s big sister Grace, a seventh-grader, volunteered to help with the younger children in the Too Much Farm Fun session. Anticipating the start of her own FDC session, she talked about last year’s memorable camp moments.
“Last year we went to Paint Creek,” Grace said. “And we went canoeing on the Nolichucky. That was my favorite! It was my first time in a canoe.”
The opportunity to try new things is one of the things that keeps kids coming back, year after year. But Doak Elementary School teacher Margaret Ayers, who was there with her daughter, said there are many good reasons for kids to come to camp.
“Being around the animals and being able to feed them,” Ayers said. “Just even being around the creek. These are things that kids don’t get to do every day. They see where food comes from and how animals live. Their understanding of food isn’t just from the grocery store.”
Ayers also said she thinks this kind of an experience makes kids more compassionate to animals and each other, and opens the door to new friendships.
“They’re all from different schools, so they’ve made new friends who have similar interests,” She said. ”I think it’s a great camp.”
Sissy Rabern’s son, Wolfgang, participated in the Little Sprouts camp.
“It’s a lot better than sitting inside, to actually get out and do stuff, like figure out where milk comes from,” Rabern said. “He absolutely loves it.”
Doak Elementary School teacher Nick Baumann led the sessions and said he believes that tuning into students’ interest levels and keeping things fun is the key to successful summer learning at Farm Day Camp.
“The highlight for most campers is probably creek time,” said Baumann, as Ben, a Little Sprout, climbed onto the creek bank cradling a freshwater shellfish in his hands.
“I think they’re having a good time,” he said, taking the tiny creature from Ben’s cupped hands and giving him a sprout-sized biology lesson.
Perhaps wide-eyed wonder and unending opportunities for
discovery are the best reasons of all to come to Farm Day Camp.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Gross! Camp
The Rural Resources’Farm Day Camp is a hands-on farming
and food adventure that connects children of all ages with the natural world.
Nick Baumann, a teacher at Doak Elementary, opened the Gross!
Camp session on June 2nd by introducing a pair of giant cockroaches
to a lively group of 1st – 3rd grade students.
“When you
touch them, remember they’re a bug,” Baumann admonished, placing them on a
table with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. “You don’t want to squeeze them, or it might get reeeaaal gross!”
The children erupted into gasps and squeals of, “Eeewww!” and “Gross!”
Baumann introduced a variety of smelly, slithery,
creepy-crawly critters throughout the day – snakes, insects, pigs and rats to
name a few – with an unexpected bonus of a tiny, pink, hairless baby in the
rats’ nest.
Baumann also produced a kitten. The children buried their fingers
in its fur and hugged it to their chests, while he assured skeptics, who weren't convinced she qualified as gross, that “she has stinky gas.”
The week also included art, crafts, feeding farm animals, milking the cows, visiting the Rural Resources garden, playing games, climbing trees and exploring the cool, shaded creek during the afternoon heat.
The days were filled with lots of amazement, laughter and good-natured
bantering between Baumann and his campers.
Although the sessions are pre-planned and structured,
Baumann said one of the key principles to creating a positive experience for
little campers is flexibility. He said he allows more time for activities they
are enjoying or moves on to something else if they are losing interest.
Campers represented a number of area schools, as well as the
home school community.
Watch for more Farm Day Camp adventure photos!
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