It is time to think about Easter photography. Bring a professional along, or let Farmer Mary take some really unique photos this Easter.
Farmer Mary will have a variety of colors, ages and sizes of bunnies as well as baby chicks, maybe a baby goat or lamb.
Contact Farmer Mary to set up a date and time for your Easter photo shoot. $10 per person or $50 minimum for an hour with Farmer Mary assisting with animals of your choice.
The News and Observer is putting together their annual list of favorite “must see” and “must do” N.C. places. If you love Winterpast Farm please go to http://nando.com/ncplaces and tell everyone. You can also share a photo of farm fun. THANK YOU for helping a small family farm. Deadline Feb 15
Farmer Mary is always very happy to barter for bunny rental, kayak rental, pasture rental (bonfires, camping, other events), birthday parties, farm visits, visits to preschools….
Farmer Mary is happy to barter just about anything including:
firewood
firewood chainsawing
firewood splitting
fence repair
carpentry ( right now the peacocks need a triangular nesting box and several donated chicken tractors need some work to be useful)
plumbing ( right now the only outdoor faucet leaks badly)
HVAC (right now part of the house is cold despite wood heating and Farmer Mary cannot figure it out)
marketing
photography
donating cages (bunny size, dog pen size…)
post hold digging
fencing new garden (she has all the wire etc, just lacking time)
rides for daughter Elizabeth on Saturdays to Winterguard competitons (rides to Millbrook High needed some Saturdays usually at 1:30 pm during prime petting zoo time)
dentistry also needed for Farmer Mary and kids
Thank you for any help.
Farmer Mary is always happy to help large families and groups afford a farm visit. Just ask!!
Learn MorePlease watch for the petting zoo sign and don’t turn down Farmer Mary’s neighbors private road.
And if you do turn down the private road please go to the end and turn around instead of turning midway and gouging out the gravel on the sides of the road.
Look for this sign and follow the arrow!
If you don’t see a tall white plywood llama, don’t turn yet!!
THANK YOU from Farmer Mary AND from her neighbors who paid for that gravel road.
The emu have four nests now, which is unusual. Farmer Mary actually saw the female lay an egg last week!
Usually by this time of year the female has laid about 25 eggs and the male has pushed them together into a nest. Then he sits and tucks them in. Ideally he would set 50 days til they hatch but the male at Winterpast Farm, like most male emu, doesn’t set long enough. Each year Farmer Mary hopes for baby emu.
When he doesn’t set long enough, eventually Farmer Mary will blow out the eggs and sell them. Last year an interior decorator bought several for her clients. There are many ways to display an emu egg.
