Goodbye City Life
I hope I never get too old to forget the simple things in life. I'm prone to want to stay in the city, the suburbs, to do the same things and go to the same places over and over and to find my joy in the familiar.
Yesterday we decided to "break out" and visit our local farm/co-op, Superstition Farms, right here in Sunny Mesa, AZ. It's hard to believe that just 1/2 mile south of a thick street of suburbs there's a 10 acre Dairy farm with about 2000 cows on it (20,000 cows within 5 miles and 3 farms of each other). It's run by 3rd generation Dairy Farmers (my age and a little younger) who have adapted this very old fashioned farm to the Co-op way of thinking. You walk through a wonderful little gift shop with all kinds of 'cow stuff' (a flat chocolate thing called a Cow Pie!) and fresh milk, cheeses and butters you can take home. They have tours at 10AM and Noon everyday and the rest of the day you can stop and visit and watch a working Dairy farm RIGHT in the middle of our suburbs. We snuck into the processing barn (not part of the tour, sorry) where they were hooking cows up to the machines that were churning the milk out of their udders. Amazing how the cows just know what to do 3 times a day....get in line, get hooked up, get in line again, go out in the field...eat, poop, sleep, poop;, eat!
At the end of the tour (another adaption to the 21st century) they opened up the "Milk Bar" and we pulled up to enjoy a fresh glass of milk in a variety of flavors (Orange Creme...yummm!) Had a great time and kudo's to the Staff at Superfarm! We got to feed goats and a sheep and a horse and mules; chickens and a dog followed us all over the farm (all free range). I suppose every aspect of animal life is completely devoted to getting snacks, falling food, and human pity.
I hope I never forget that just a little beyond my daily life, and available to me everyday, is an opportunity to break away just 1/2 mile, to be rid of my daily routine and to go enjoy 'the country'... a little taste (and smells) of God's country! I need to remember to look around and figure out the local places to go that make a big difference in my life, to visit and show them my thanks and support. (Superstition Farm supplies MOST of the milk that we drink here everyday!).
To enjoy our photos check out: Superstition Farms Photos! Until next time...
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Yesterday we decided to "break out" and visit our local farm/co-op, Superstition Farms, right here in Sunny Mesa, AZ. It's hard to believe that just 1/2 mile south of a thick street of suburbs there's a 10 acre Dairy farm with about 2000 cows on it (20,000 cows within 5 miles and 3 farms of each other). It's run by 3rd generation Dairy Farmers (my age and a little younger) who have adapted this very old fashioned farm to the Co-op way of thinking. You walk through a wonderful little gift shop with all kinds of 'cow stuff' (a flat chocolate thing called a Cow Pie!) and fresh milk, cheeses and butters you can take home. They have tours at 10AM and Noon everyday and the rest of the day you can stop and visit and watch a working Dairy farm RIGHT in the middle of our suburbs. We snuck into the processing barn (not part of the tour, sorry) where they were hooking cows up to the machines that were churning the milk out of their udders. Amazing how the cows just know what to do 3 times a day....get in line, get hooked up, get in line again, go out in the field...eat, poop, sleep, poop;, eat!
At the end of the tour (another adaption to the 21st century) they opened up the "Milk Bar" and we pulled up to enjoy a fresh glass of milk in a variety of flavors (Orange Creme...yummm!) Had a great time and kudo's to the Staff at Superfarm! We got to feed goats and a sheep and a horse and mules; chickens and a dog followed us all over the farm (all free range). I suppose every aspect of animal life is completely devoted to getting snacks, falling food, and human pity.
I hope I never forget that just a little beyond my daily life, and available to me everyday, is an opportunity to break away just 1/2 mile, to be rid of my daily routine and to go enjoy 'the country'... a little taste (and smells) of God's country! I need to remember to look around and figure out the local places to go that make a big difference in my life, to visit and show them my thanks and support. (Superstition Farm supplies MOST of the milk that we drink here everyday!).
To enjoy our photos check out: Superstition Farms Photos! Until next time...
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Scott_VanHoogstraat
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