Pigeon Valley Farms

The Tiny FarmStead Family Retreat

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Stay for a two nights or a weekend and we will create a custom Farm to Table Educational experience. From the barnshed, to the kitchen garden ending in the farm kitchen, and everything in-between!

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• Farm Animal Care – play with baby animals, feeding, milking goats, collecting eggs, nutrition, minerals, housing, animal husbandry, byproducts (manure, eggs and milk), draft power, weed and feed, cover crops, rotating livestock, and watch livestock guardians at work.

• Gardening - seed sowing, transplanting, natural fertilizers, planting & harvesting, fish pond aquaponics, watering, weeding, pruning, staking, season extension, cover crops, winter mulching.

• Kitchen - basic cooking & baking skills, learn about fresh vegetables, nutrition, kid friendly recipes, seasonal food preservation and healthy desserts.

• Aquaponics - water collection ponds and barrels plus pondfish equals a balanced fish emulsion to water plants and grow greens on the surface.

• Green Recycling - complete recycling and re-using composting ,water collection, rain water, soil building, green fertilizers,  newspaper, plastic & cardboard mulching, material re-purposing and discuss green energy.

• Arts & Crafts - creative skills by creating garden items. birdhouses, chicken tractors, bee and bat house, by learning deconstruction of free pallets using recycled and re-purposed materials.

• Music & Instruments - Easy to learn songs

• Yoga & Meditation in Nature - Relaxing Stretching, Sitting under Trees or in Tiny House

• Fire Circle & Stargazing - Popcorn, Marshmallow Treats, Stories and Songs