Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Christmas Tree Quest 2011

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went on our annual Christmas tree quest. We go to Tiger Mountain in Issaquah to a particular farm, but when we arrived, they had a big sign on the barn that said....
"NOBLE FIRS--SOLD OUT"
Not sure how you can be sold out 2 days after Thanksgiving, but oh well... there were plenty of other farms that we could check out in the area.
We happened upon a farm way off the beaten path-- while attempting to follow the signs to it we thought we were lost, but nope-- it was just way out in the boonies. The farm was called "Crystal Creek", and wow, was it pretty! They had Christmas music playing over loud speakers and fields of beautiful Noble Firs.


We started looking in one field, then went to the middle field, then to the right field, and then all the way back to where we started again.



There were little trees, huge trees, and trees with a peek-a-boo space in the middle...

In some areas, the trees were so close together, you could barely walk between them...



Finally, we found the one--




Everyone had to take a turn sawing it down!





While Daddy put the tree on the van roof, we played with the nice farm dogs and rode on an old train car thingy that the owner of the farm had restored.






The owner of the farm, the nice gentleman pictured above in the engineer's cap, gave the kids rides. He said that if we come back next year, he will have his trolley up and running, and will give us a ride on that too.


Monday, October 3, 2011

Pumpkin Patch!

What a lovely, cool, fun, fabulous fall Saturday we had!

After breakfast, we headed to a pumpkin farm in Carnation, which is just past Redmond, Washington. It would have only taken us about 40 minutes to get there, but due to conversation and sight seeing and a stop at Starbucks after we missed the turn, it took us about an hour and a half. :)  Gareth and I decided on this particular farm because we are tired of the commericalizing and overpriced activities of the majority of the pumpkin patches around here. Corn mazes: 8 bucks a person; hayrides: 3 bucks a person; kids' fall-themed play area and petting zoo: 3 bucks a kid-- it gets to be a bit ridiculous, and a family of 5 could easily spend 100 bucks for a day at the patch. Jubilee Farm was so delightfully different from that type of farm... the only time the farm is open to the public is in October. Otherwise it is a co-op farm that grows all kinds of organic fruits and veggies. The owners, a husband and wife, gave FREE horse-drawn hayrides to the pumpkin area, and they had a FREE hay maze set up in a barn for the kids. They had pigs and chickens and horses to look at, and all kinds of old farm equipment. In fact, the only things we spent money on were the pumpkins we purchased! The patch didn't just have your run-of-the-mill sugar pumpkins, but gorgeous deep red Cinderella pumpkins, and all kind of squash and gourds too. We will be heading back next year for sure!!

Arriving at the farm...

Such pretty colors!

On the tractor-pulled hayride
A bit windy and cool!
Mommy and Georgia


Gareth gazing at the fields of pumpkins


Love this color!

Our favorite was somewhere over there, Dad...

Pretty Harper

Pretty Georgia

Lonely

Actually, I think our favorite was this way...

The horse-drawn hayride brought us back from the fields


In the hay maze

Whoops! Bonked heads in the hay maze!

Handsome Mason

Sweet!