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Farming Fun


Twenty years ago my son and I and his kinder group spent the morning at Myuna Farm, milking cows and feeding sheep and twenty years later I was back and in a comforting way it hasn't changed much (yes it's had upgrades and there are new things there) but it has the same familiar feeling that it did when my son was four.

Myuna Farm is a working community farm in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne where people get an opportunity to see farm and some native animals (like kangaroos and emus) and learn about farming and sustainability.

I was here as part of a community project that the school kids I work with were doing. Instead of petting animals and feeding them we weeded, picked up rubbish, mulched and painted, but we still got an opportunity to walk the grounds and see the animals and I don't know whether I got more pleasure at seeing the animals or watching the students get excited by it (and I am talking students aged between 17 and above) who were thrilled to see the kangaroos and their joeys, the spitting camels, sheep, alpacas and llamas some who admitted to seeing them for the first time.

I realized then that my kids and I were very lucky to have opportunities to experience places like this when they were growing up and I am so pleased that Myuna Farm is still around so that there is a whole new generation of children that get to experience the excitement of seeing animals on a working farm.

And that reminds me once again that sometimes 'our own backyards' can bring us as much pleasure as a holiday further away.

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