This was a swell shindig at the Goss Family Farm, Mike Goss and is wife, and my deepest thanks for their hosting of this yearly event. Truth to their work they had hens and baby chicks to pet, goats, and the most friendly horse (whose name i didn’t get) roaming the yard. The Goss Family Farm is located on a creek west of arcadia, 2 hours east of Crawfordsville and about an hour north of Indianapolis. But the drive was worth it. The Goss Family Farm is part of a network of Midwest organic growers that deliver organic food to those that order it.
My son had the greatest time. He is what one might call a privileged urbanite and it was the greatest gift to me to see him running around with kids he didn’t know, enjoying the fellowship that comes from either being 7 years old or just not having all those social guards and prejudices that most of us have created by the time we are in our 30’s.
One of the things that I learned (besides the pleasures of Organic Coffee tasting from the Midwest Coffee Company) was just how much fun can come about from a card board box. See most kids get a new shiny toy that never changes and only has a couple options for it’s use, it is not usually too long before they are bored with it and the excitement of the novelty wears off. However I think the reason that kids have so much fun with card board boxes is that there is an infinite amount of uses for them (this explains the Christmas phenomenon that we are accustom to as well) and the reason that kids have so much fun on farms it that it is always changing and can be a highly interactive environment much like the environment at the Goss Family Farm at the Strawberry Jam.
following are the two pics that I did manage to get on my phone before the battery went dead, the first pic is of the awesome band that played there that day and the second is of their beautiful and most friendly horse.
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