Easter at the Farm is special for all visitors, whether you are two or ninety-two. Enjoy the beginning of spring. The garden is beginning to come to life with the green leaves of the newly planted vegetables clearly visible row by row. Feel the rich warm earth between your fingers. Above the garden in one of the many Live Oak Trees you hear the sound of the Robins and the red birds. Out in the meadows children gather grass and native wildflowers to be used for making Easter nests. Each person in the household needed a nest in which to place the many colored eggs carefully gathered on Easter morning. In the kitchen Mama used beet juice, boiled onion skins and fresh spinach, boiled pecan peelings, grape juice and also bluing as ingredients to make the dyes to color the eggs. The smells of a special cake baked in the shape of a spring lamb drifts from the small wood burning stove. When the cake cools, a special icing is spread on the cake and topped with coconut to represent the wool and raisins make eyes. Bring the whole family to enjoy these sights and sounds of a wonderful Easter here at the park.
