June is hands-down the busiest month of the year for our family. School gets out, and then every summer activity gets under way in June! Plus, life on the farm is busy in June, too! What a whirlwind!!
We borrowed goats from our friends again to mow down weeds around the farm this summer.
Both of the boys played golf at Hesston through their Junior Golf program, but they also played golf several times just for fun.
Ben seems to have endless patience with the boys while they golf. It's actually pretty fun to watch him coach them along.
Levi played machine pitch baseball this summer and had a lot of fun with is friends and teammates!
Noah played summer league basketball with his Junior High teammates during the month of June, too. I tried to sneak this photo of them hanging out between games...it's getting harder and harder to snap pictures of Noah!
Noah played his last year of summer baseball this year and enjoyed pitching again for his team.
The garden got a good start in June. We struggled with some very hot weather early in the month so all the plants were a bit shocked.
Noah played a full weekend of basketball at his second MAYB tournament. His team wasn't as successful at this tournament, but it was still a great learning opportunity and he enjoyed being out on the court.
My little blueberry bushes made lots more berries this year than last! Not enough for them to make it out of the garden since I eat them as soon as I pick them! They are just the most amazing tasting treats out in the hot summer garden!
The boys participated in a basketball camp at Bethel this summer and had a blast!
And then it was time to harvest wheat!
And while the farmers harvested wheat and planted double crop soybeans, I took the boys to baseball games.
These are cover crop seeds. I can't remember what is in this mix, but I thought the seeds were just beautiful!
My favorite farmer!
And three goofballs! :-)
We got okra in June which is earlier than we've ever harvested okra!
The goats that we're borrowing are all mama goats, these are their babies at our friends' house. The little ones sure are cuter than the mamas!
More golf...
And since Noah is too cool for a posed photo at Camp Mennoscah, I snapped a photo of the outside of his cabin before we left him for a week of camp fun.
And during that same week, Levi and I participated in a a Farm to Table camp at Kaufman Museum in North Newton. I volunteered as a parent helper (mostly because I really wanted to participate and learn, too!).
The first day we harvested four different berries from the museum grounds to make jam, picked green beans and beets to pickle and did several other things too.
The kids learned how to butcher a chicken,
gather and grind wheat,
make noodles,
and bread following this recipe.
They also visited a local meat shop to learn how to make sausage, they visited a farm to milk a cow and then used the milk and cream for butter, whipped cream, cheese and homemade ice cream!
Levi's baseball season wrapped up during his week at Uncle Carl's Camp.
On the last day of camp, the children worked hard to prepare a big feast for themselves featuring all the food they had gathered and prepared.
At home, we harvested onions.
And lots of cucumbers!
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