During our trip to Oxen Hill Farm, the kids enjoyed helping with some farm chores. They feed the chickens and collected their eggs. Then they took those eggs and fed the hog. They dropped (aka cracked) the eggs in the hogs trough and the sound of the cracking eggs lured the hogs from their hiding place in their barn, out to the trough which was located right at the fence when the kids stood anxiously waiting to watch the hogs eat. They greatly delighted to hear the hogs snort as the munched down the fresh eggs. Next the kids helped brush the dairy cows (unfortunately the main dairy cow had dried up earlier in the season, so there was no opportunity to help with milking the cow). It was a fun trip, topped off with picnic of PB&J sandwiches and watermelon!
Oxen Hill Farm is a national historic district that includes a living farm museum operated by the National Park Service, and is located in Maryland, just outside of DC. The park evolved from a plantation home during the War of 1812, to a hospital farm, to the current park that exists today.
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