Today, Tammy and I visited the Cedarock park in Burlington, NC. The park is a wonderful place to visit with frisbee golf, horse trails, working historical farm, fishing ponds and hiking trails. This weekend, the farm hosted the Heritage days event. There was an antique car show, a honey bee demonstration, music, and crafts. 
Tammy was eyeing the “machine gun” car — she’d love to try it out against tailgaters! Nothing says back-off like a rear mounted machine gun. 
Tammy and I took a trip to the Alamance Battleground Park. 
Alamance Battleground was the site of the “first battle of the American Revolution”. The battle was fought between the governement, lead by Governor Tryon and the Regulators. The Regulators were protesting against the high taxes and corruption in the government.
At the park, we also visited the historic Allen house. 
This log house was in use into the early 1900′s. The park guide told us that there are still three Alamance residents who were born in the house!
While it wasn’t a fun escape from the farm life, Tammy and I took a trip to CEFS (Center for Environmental Farming Systems) where we saw a small farm tillage demonstration. Bryan Green and Ken Fager demonstrated methods to knock down cover crops (helical roller, flail mower, and tiller), prepare seeed beds, and suppress weeds.
CEFS is in the Sandhills region of North Carolina in Goldsboro. It’s about 90 minutes from the house, so it kind of qualifies as an out and about session.
We got lots of pictures of the event so Tammy can show her students in the Soil Science class.
Today, Tammy and I went to watch “Kilowatt Ours” a documenatary about energy conservation at the Horton Middle School in Pittsboro. It was interesting and got us motivated to install our solar hot water system. We’re planning to install one that will heat water for our in-home use and one that will heat the water in the hot tub.
After the movie, we drove up to Fearrington Village where we harvested a bounty of fresh apples from a little grove we discovered the other day. We got a huge harvest that we’ll eat, bake and dry. Ask nicely and Tammy might share her Apple Crisp recipe! It never makes it longer than a day before we eat it all!
YUMMY
