Papa's Farm

Learn about the way farming was done a century ago at this working farm in Onslow County.

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• Where does food come from? This Science NetLinks lesson is the first of a two-part series on where food comes from. In this lesson, students learn that most of the food they buy in stores originally comes from farms. (Grade 1, Science)
• Farm Machines In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Science NetLinks, students find out how machines help people grow, package, transport, and store food. (Grade K–1 Computer Technology Skills and Science)
• From dirt to dinner This lesson serves as an introductory study of the plant world. The lesson allows students to study seeds, parts of plants, microclimates, and how to grow seeds into vegetable plants for harvest. Parents are encouraged to assist at home. (Grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
• Harvest of History Explore this farming village to see how food is produced and how "foodways" have changed over the past 200 years.

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Take a trip back in time to Papa’s Farm located near Jacksonville, North Carolina. The ownership of this land by the Justice famiy goes back to the late 1700s when John M.C. Justice, Sr. came to Onslow County. Today the farm is owned by his great-great-great granddaughter and her husband. They would like students to know what it was like to live back on the farm when there were no modern conveniences.

A field trip to Papa’s Farm shows students how each family member was needed to take care of specific daily chores for the “survival of the family.” In October, second, third, and fourth graders will get to dig a row of peanuts, harvest cotton, dig a row of sweet potatoes, pick field corn, milk a cow or dairy goat, and much more. Bags are provided for students to carry home their harvest.

In the spring and the fall, children in kindergarten and first grade will be able to milk a dairy goat or cow, churn butter, create candles from bee’s wax, make button toys, and see what the chickens are up to in the chicken coops.

For more information on these exciting visits, contact Barbara at (910)347-2414 after 5:00 p.m. or send email to trooks1@ec.rr.com.

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