We began the day with one of the best breakfast I’ve had, which was eggs, waffles, and sausage patties. We made the delicious eggs by ourselves with fresh eggs we found from the chicken coop, and the rest were prepared by Chef Mark. We mainly made the food for the kids in a program that helped them with their education, and an opportunity to go to college.
After that was done, we went to the main attraction for that day: UC Santa Cruz. All we did was just looking at their hilly gardens and large farms for the students in UC Santa Cruz. The main reason we went there was because Stuart told us it was the “Harvard of Gardening”. I was taken back by surprise when I found cages with dead squirrels and birds in the farm. It turned out they killed the squirrels because they dig too m holes on the ground. For what seemed like a not-killing-animals-day turned out to be not true. But we had a great lunch after that, which made it worth seeing the dead squirrels.
The afternoon became a normal day in the life of a farmer. We made some Mozzarella cheese, which was interesting, because I never knew cheese at one point would look like tofu. And do not worry, we also fed the animals. When we led out the goats, it was when things got interesting. For some reason, I thought it was a GREAT idea to not let Stuart or Doyle to tie up Madelyn (the most angry goat) so we can take the goats out one by one in peace. The first horns I saw when I got in the cage to take out one of the goats to milk was, you guessed it, Madelyn. It took all my will to not get nailed by Madelyn’s horns. Because we were too busy on calming Madelyn down, we left the gate open and all the goats rushed out to get the leaves nearby. It was not until Doyle came and had Madelyn tied up when we were able to make all the goats get back in and continue with the rest of our milking.
I still regret a lot that I did not finish the sausage patty I left on my plate.
Diwei
9th grade
After that was done, we went to the main attraction for that day: UC Santa Cruz. All we did was just looking at their hilly gardens and large farms for the students in UC Santa Cruz. The main reason we went there was because Stuart told us it was the “Harvard of Gardening”. I was taken back by surprise when I found cages with dead squirrels and birds in the farm. It turned out they killed the squirrels because they dig too m holes on the ground. For what seemed like a not-killing-animals-day turned out to be not true. But we had a great lunch after that, which made it worth seeing the dead squirrels.
The afternoon became a normal day in the life of a farmer. We made some Mozzarella cheese, which was interesting, because I never knew cheese at one point would look like tofu. And do not worry, we also fed the animals. When we led out the goats, it was when things got interesting. For some reason, I thought it was a GREAT idea to not let Stuart or Doyle to tie up Madelyn (the most angry goat) so we can take the goats out one by one in peace. The first horns I saw when I got in the cage to take out one of the goats to milk was, you guessed it, Madelyn. It took all my will to not get nailed by Madelyn’s horns. Because we were too busy on calming Madelyn down, we left the gate open and all the goats rushed out to get the leaves nearby. It was not until Doyle came and had Madelyn tied up when we were able to make all the goats get back in and continue with the rest of our milking.
I still regret a lot that I did not finish the sausage patty I left on my plate.
Diwei
9th grade