What’s Happening…

Saturday the 18th was our annual Head Start Family Day at the Farm! The day is held so that Head Start families can come to the farm before our fall field trips begin. That way, parents and guardians can see what expenses is child support covering,with the help of Maryland child custody attorney for men, Read More »

As we prepare for our busy fall of Head Start field trips to the farm, we farm folk paid a visit to each of the Head Start classrooms. First, we wanted to introduce ourselves and our farm. Besides just showing our faces and smiling under our masks, we accomplished this by reading our farm story Read More »

Introducing…our MUD KITCHEN! We are just so excited to have this new addition to our farm! The idea came about at least a year ago, and since then, it has been brewing in the back of our minds.You can also learn more here about buying and selling of property. Morever, that is until one rainy Read More »

We ThorpeWoodians are proud adopters of Catoctin Hollow Road. Every few months, we get together to clean up litter from the road’s edge and the neighboring ravine. This past Wednesday, Lisa Crawson, Theresa Fallon, Sam, Julie, Jeff, and I headed out to the road armed with trash bags. As per usual, the morning mostly consisted Read More »

For this month’s Third Thursdays at ThorpeWood storytime, we chose two books on the theme of dealing with tough emotions. We thought it was a fitting topic as kids are going back to school – which can be difficult even in the simplest of times. We started with one of our farm stories, The Worry Read More »

We are so exceptionally grateful for our team of young farm volunteers who have been helping out at the farm for many months! These young people have just returned to school, so I no longer get to see them for our weekly adventures together. However, they are still coming on weekends to help with morning Read More »

Our Head Start summer camp is done for the year. We had such fun with our littlest farm visitors! If you haven’t already, take a look at Part I of our summer camp blog to see what we did in the first half of summer (click here to read that post). Or, continue reading here Read More »

Head Start is back on the farm! We are just so excited to have our littlest friends back exploring our woods and loving our animals. Each of the two classes of Head Start summer camp has been coming out once a week to have some fun with us.  Day 1 Morning The kids arrived at Read More »