Sep. 8, 2006
Science for Families Resource
Here's an interesting web site with a number of topics:
All Info About Science for Families
http://scienceforfamilies.allinfo-about.com/
Check it out ~ looks to be a great general info site.
Here's how I found it - I was looking for images of one of my all time favorite, precious animals - the piglet!
http://scienceforfamilies.allinfo-about.com/zoo/piglets.html
Are they not the cutest things? When I was 14, we raised hogs for a time and I always loved going with my Dad to feed them. We had 14 sows who each had about a bazillion piglets - there were little piggies everywhere! I've had a great affection for them ever since. A sister-friend of mine even brought me some hand blown glass piglets from Italy one summer when she traveled to Europe to visit her brother. They are among a life long collection of little piggies I have. We hope to be adding the real live piglets to our farm in the next year; I'd love to have a black and white one and a regular one.
Here is a homeschooling farming family to visit - Sugar Moutain Farm - they are up in Vermont and raise pastured pigs. Walter has a great blog and is a HUGE leader in the current campaign against the USDA's NAIS. Visit his NoNAIS.org for more information.
The weather is beginning to cool just in time for Fall (good timing, huh?) and it's gonna be a piggy kind of Friday of fun here on the Dirt Road. And speaking of pigs - we'll be selling barbeque all day tomorrow for our homeschool baseball team's fund raiser!
Have a great weekend!
