10-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 2002
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Everyone Finds Fun At Family Farm Days
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) As part of June Dairy Month fes
tivities, Oregon Dairy, Lancaster, hosted Family Farm Days, an annu
al event presented by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.
The three-day event featured a wagon ride tour of the Oregon Dairy
farm, agricultural exhibits, and ice cream and milk samples.
A straw tunnel, pony rides, and a scavenger hunt were also part of
Family Farm Days.
In addition, the Lancaster County Conservation District set up a
conservation exhibit to give conservation tips. Visitors also had the op
portunity to participate in a stream study and examine a soil profile.
Oregon Dairy began as a small store in 1974, marketing milk from
the farm. It is now a large supermarket and includes 600 acres of
land. They milk about 300 cows.
Andrea Peters, Manheim, hands an ice cream sample
to Danielle Barlieb, 7, Lancaster.
Hannah Breneman, 9,
Washington Boro, and Can
dice Brubaker, 11, Man
heim, did their part to
promote the dairy industry
during the event by hand
ing out “got milk” items.
David Trump, 7, Lititz, participates in the scavenger hunt. The game asked agricultu
rally-related questions about the events and displays at Family Farm Days. Children who
finished the hunt were rewarded with an ice cream sundae.
At left Shalane Heisey, Rexville, N.Y., puts a temporary
tattoo bearing a beef promotion message on Preston Cha
kara, 8, Ephrata. Heisey is a summer intern for the Penn
sylvania Beef Council
Daniel Walters, 6, a mis
sionary from Africa on fur
lough and living in Ephrata,
helps himself to a choco
late milk sample
Knute Weber, 7, New Holland, made several trips
through the straw tunnel several times during his visit to
the farm.
Alison, 7, and Jenessa Stark, 4, Perkiomenviile, en
joyed meeting a calf during Family Farm Days.
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