Growing up in the country gave me plenty of opportunity to experience farm life. As a child, I fed chickens and collected eggs. I helped plant a vegetable garden and spent time weeding, watering, and picking produce. 

As a result of this work our family enjoyed eating fresh eggs, vegetables, and fruit grown in our backyard. From these experiences, I developed knowledge of where food comes from and sense of respect for farmers who spend their lives providing food for the whole world. 

Many people do not have the opportunity to connect to the garden and farming the way that I did, that’s why I love Sky Meadows State Park’s signature program "Life on the Farm" and hope you will too. 

Kids love to help plant seeds in the Kitchen Garden

Life on the Farm

This is a monthly program on every third Saturday, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. starting in April running throughout the growing season. The last Life on Farm program will be the second weekend of October for Sky Meadows' Fall Farm Days agriculture weekend.

During our Life on the Farm program, the historic area brings an historic 1840’s farm to life. Each month’s activities change based on what needs to be done in our Kitchen Garden and what the garden is producing. Just like I did as a child, during our program you can get your hands dirty in the garden, see how the vegetables are used in the kitchen, and make your own connections to farming and history. 

Join our gardeners Bob and Linda in the Kitchen Garden

There are plenty of ways that you can get involved during "Spring into Life on the Farm" you can help us:

• plant the garden
• watch a cooking demonstration
• give Historic Mount Bleak House a spring clean
• go on a scavenger hunt to collect seeds to start your own garden 

Additionally, we will have three program partners joining us for this special day:

• Dear Farm of Delaplane will have baby farm animals for you to meet, and you can learn what it takes to care for these animals
• Historic Burwell-Morgan Mill will have Millers shelling the corn we grew last year and the corn will be taken to the mill so it can be ground into cornmeal
• Mr. James Eustace who is a local farmer and historian is bringing a museum quality collection of antique farm equipment for us to explore

Dear Farms will be bringing baby goats (kids) for you to meet

We invite you to experience work and play on a historic farm at Sky Meadows State Park on April 16, 2016 from 1:00 pm. to 3:00 p.m. and throughout the growing season every 3rd Saturday.

For more information about Life on the Farm or other events and programming at Sky Meadows State Park, please contact the Visitor Center at (540) 592-3556 or email the park here. 

For directions to Sky Meadows State Park click here, or for information about year-round primitive camping at Sky Meadows click here.