One of our favorite places In MA to entertain our kids is at the Winslow Farms and Animal Sanctuary in Norton MA. Since few people know what an Animal Sanctuary is I’ll just call it a petting farm….everyone can relate to a petting farm. The owner Debra White takes in used and abused farm animals and provides them with a home on her farm. A while back Debra opened the farm to the public, check her website for her hours of operation and her calender for special events.
Unlike most other petting farms, Winslow Farms lets most of the animal roam where they choose and most of them mingle with the other farm animals. If you are use to petting farms that separate their animals this concept will blow your mind, the animals get along and there is no need to separate them.
The chicken in the lower left is actually a mini chicken, about 1/3 of the size of a regular chicken. Her chicks are a little larger than an egg at this point. The farm has all sorts of birds including turkeys, peacocks, pigeons, doves and probably 20 other types that are skipping my mind.
When my daughters tire from walking around the nature trails and playing with the animals they are ready to play on the teeter totter. Their idea of riding the teeter totter is having me step on one end so they don’t have any work to do!
This was a great find at the end of our nature walk!
For pictures of Winslow farms at Halloween time follow this link.
Welcome to Eco Tours! Over the next few months we will attempt to grow this site into a resource for all of your eco tour needs. If you are looking for ways to enjoy the outdoors without destroying our environment hopefully we can help.
Edit 10/14/2008:
Looking back over the past month since I started this site without a clear focus on how it would turn out, I have concluded that this site will continue to be a photo blog of my outdoor activities. The term “ECO TOURS” is sort of a loose term on this site, generally it means just enjoying the outdoors while attempting to be nice to our environment. My tour of Jamaica is a good example of a 7 day “Eco Tour” however it took 6 hours of riding in a jet each way to get there– the jet part is really not environmentally freindly!
Most of the places that I take pictures of on this site are within 30 miles of my home in southern MA and since I don’t bike down the highway, I’m burning fossil fuels to get there. Hopefully the readers of this site will find some fun outdoor activities to do while browsing through the pages of this site? Oh well, at least I am able to document my trips, travels and my low impact tours of all that nature has to offer me and my kids.
If you see any pictures that you like, feel free to shoot me an e-mail for more photos. Generally I will take 100′s of images of a tour and only publish 3-4 on this site. Trying to balance a good amount larger resolution pictures and keeping the page load times down is really a challenge!
If you see something that you like, feel free to leave a comment. If you don’t see anything that you like go away and stop wasting my bandwidth.