The Queens County Farm is the oldest continuous farm in NYC. During the days of the Dutch colony and then the British, Queens and Brooklyn were the Boroughs - or farmlands which fed the growing colony. This farm is still on the original site...pretty cool to drive through queens to a farm!
They have a couple of hundred free range chickens which produce lots of eggs for sale daily - but you have to pre-order them so there were none for us to buy.
The children transplanted a marigpold plant to bring home.
They also examined a dead bee, learned about bee keeping and made a beeswax candle - and even had a taste of delicious honey.
The Bee!
Health tip! Consume Honey which is produced within a 100 mile radius of where you live this will help reduce your alergies to grasses and pollens because the bees have colleced pollen from the area where you live, helping you to build immunity!
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