Farmer Olympics

I had the privilege of going to the Mother Earth News Fair with some of my classmates at the end of September. The fair was located at a beautiful mountain sky resort. At the fair, we tabled for our program at Chatham, went to lots of awesome workshops, ate delicious foods, and had two student teams participate in the Farmer Olympics hosted by Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.

The Farmer Olympics were such a blast. It was a friendly competition between farmers and students doing a variety of  farm tasks. There were multiple activities that the teams participated in, including putting up and dismantling a fence, trellising tomatoes, putting together CSA boxes, picking up potatoes, shot-putting pumpkins, and hay bale stacking. Our teams did really well, represented Chatham well, and had a lot of fun. I got to be the photographer and had a great time watching everyone. I did my fair share of giggling at everyone.  It was an incredibly beautiful day! Here are a few pictures from the competition.

We had so much fun!