After a lazy Saturday (albeit our lazy day included over two hours of bike riding and playing at neighborhood parks plus pizza making on the grill), we woke up Sunday morning to a gloriously cool, sunny day. We decided it was the perfect opportunity to get outside, enjoy nature and visit a farm!
We have been buying produce from Wood Duck Farm through CSAs and the farmers market for over five years and on Sunday, we finally took our first visit to the farm! Wood Duck Farm is located north of Houston in Cleveland, Texas and the owner, Van, is offering pick-your-own strawberries for the first time this year.
We arrived at the farm at 11am, ready to get out in the fields and pick buckets and buckets of strawberries.
Note the kids' tablets: they were taking video of their adventure!
Strawberries.
There were so many red, ripe strawberries and the picking was easy.
Strawberry fields forever!
10 1/2 pounds later...
After picking strawberries, Van pulled out a table and chairs so we could enjoy our picnic lunch and the kids played and played on the farm's playground. There was another family there with two boys and the four boys became fast friends.
After lunch, Van brought out a box of little chicks for the kids to see.
Henry's new buddy.
We walked over to see the calves.
The boys found spiders and a big juicy worm in the mud.
After getting our fill of the farm animals, we loaded up in the cart to see the rest of the farm,
including the pigs!
We ventured out in the fields and Van let us pick some kale.
Pick-your-own kale!
Flowering broccoli.
We all agreed that Sunday was one of our best adventures yet. The farm was quiet and peaceful and just the perfect place for our city boys to get out and explore and experience a real working farm and see where much of our fresh produce is grown. Van is so welcoming and we cannot wait to go back again soon! Next up, Henry and I are going to try making some strawberry jam with some of our berries.
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