Triform Farm: Pictures

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Pictures

This afternoon I took some pictures of the animals on the farm. I took them on black

and white because I wanted to get some pictures on my new camera and I took them on black and white because I wanted to see how it looks on black and white. I got to choose 2 of my favorite pictures and I picked a picture of 1 of our sows sticking out her nose. I picked that one because I think it looked cute sticking out hes nose. She is the pig in the way back who just had piglets. The 2nd picture I chose was one of the cows. It was Morning Star and she was eating. I chose that picture because I liked the way it looked on my camera . I took pictures of the piglets, the dogs, the farm cats, the cows, the sows, and the steers. I liked how the pictures came out and so did Sarah..
-Elijah Kent

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I really like your photograph - all the pictures are well done. The sunset photos are stunning. I would like to see some of them printed. Also the photos of the animals are wonderful. You have such clean animals - my favorite is of the cow hugging the little piglets.
I have been telling people to check out your blog site - GREAT JOB!
Good luck to Billy - I look forward to shopping there.; February 7, 2009 at 2:21 PM

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About Triform Farm

Triform Farm is part of Triform Camphill Community. Triform, founded in 1979, is a residential and therapeutic community for young adults with special needs, located on 125 acres in New York's rural Columbia County. The mission of Triform is to build a vital community life that provides each person the possibility for healing, self-development and fulfillment of potential.

Triform Farm is a USDA Certified Organic and Demeter Certified Bio-dynamic farm. The farm consists of a hand-milked dairy herd, grass-fed beef herd, and heritage breed pigs. On the farm the young adults have an opportunity to gain practical work skills. Students come to the farm to experience working with the animals. They feed the cows, steers and pigs, muck out the barn, clean pens and provide bedding for the animals. They learn to use different tools and how to work as a team with the other members of the farm crew.

Some students go on to become farm apprentices. The apprentices work more full time on the farm and carry many of the daily responsibilities of running a small dairy. They learn how to milk the cows by hand, maintain the machinery, do building projects and repair work to the barn and animal pens, drive the farm golf cart, identify when animals are sick or in heat, and much, much, more. The apprentice program is about four years in length. In that time the young people gain a very broad knowledge of farming. Some go on to work on other farms. Even if they do not, the sense of responsibility, independence and empowerment they gain through land work carries over into other aspects of their lives.

The same can be said of many young co-workers who have come to Triform to volunteer for one year or many. They come with an interest in land work and leave with a very thorough training in biodynamic agriculture. Triform Farm is an exciting place to learn and gain strength and confidence through trying new things. Everyone soon finds that they not only know how to do a new task but have taken on the responsibility of making sure that job is maintained. They can each see that their contribution is vital to the running of the farm. In that way everyone shares in the ownership of Triform Farm.