Category: The Farm

This past weekend, The Samaritan Women (TSW) held their yearly three-day retreat at ThorpeWood. This group, based out of Baltimore, is a faith-based home for women who have been victims of domestic sex trafficking. In this program, the women learn independence, confidence, find spiritual growth and learn about the basic rights and laws such as Read More »

In honor of National Volunteer Month, we are spotlighting the wondrous creatures who have been volunteering at the farm lately. Each of these ladies have just recently started blessing us with their helpful hands and smiles.  First to come to us with her buoyant personality and shining eyes was Miss Lisa, one of our most Read More »

  After the quiet lull of winter, spring weather brought many groups to the farm. Out of Baltimore, ‘So What Else’ arrived with students from the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts for a leadership retreat. This organization creates programming for under served youth, with an emphasis on volunteerism and a strong sense of Read More »

In cleaning up the secret corners of the barn’s tack room this past week, we stumbled upon a treasure trove of thank you notes from years past. These heartfelt messages so touch us that we would love to share bits and pieces of them here. We feel these are testaments to the true soul of Read More »

Since their auspicious arrival at the farm, our silkie baby chicks, who are being raised as therapy chickens, have hit quite a few milestones! Please hold your applause until the end 🙂 First, at just a week old, these little darlings discovered their first worm – a moment no hen forgets as long as she Read More »

This winter, we ventured off the farm and into the head start classrooms a total of thirty nine times! With thirteen classes in Frederick County, that meant three visits per class. We do this not only for the fun and joy of seeing the colorful natural habitats of our small ‘friends,’ but also to establish Read More »

In pursuit of ever more sources of sunshine on our little farm, we have added four perfectly delightful silkie chicks. Just last Wednesday, they were the product of a farm field trip in which all of our full time staff adventured to our local tractor supply. Here, Josie, tractor supply’s resident bird expert, escorted us Read More »

With our winter classroom visits in full swing, Joy wrote and photographed our newest story, The All-Around Egg. This book talks about all the many ways of cooking with the eggs we get from our chickens. After reading this story to our preschool ‘friends’ in the classroom, we ask if they might return the kindness of Read More »