Wrights Dairy Farm

Wrights dairy farm is tucked away in North Smithfield Rhode Island and is more than just a dairy farm.  It all started in 1900 when the milk was being delivered in cans and has become a homestead where the family grew and they built a bakery with some of the best cakes I have ever tasted!

  I come from a long line of dairy farmers, my father, grandfather and all my paternal uncles and cousins were dairy farmers.  So it was no shock that I married a man whose father and grandfather pedaled milk with my father and grandfather!  Rhode Island really is a small world.  Well needless to say I thought it important for my kids to know all about dairy farms and where the milk they drink comes from.

In 2009 Wrights built a new milking barn and installed a viewing window. Every day between 3-5 PM the cows are milked and customers are welcome to watch through the viewing window, you just have to make sure the kids are quiet.  It is quite the site, dozens of cows in a row hooked up to a machine that milks the cows and runs the milk through hoses.   

Next to the milking area there were calves in pens, they all started mooing at us!  Well it was not us, they were about to be fed! They were absolutely adorable.

While your at Wrights make sure to buy a Gallon of the milk and some pastries.  I recommend the scones and the black and white cake, 2 of my favorites.  A trip to Wrights would not be complete without a frosting shot.  What is a frosting shot you ask?  A shot glass size container of frosting and it is sooooo good. 

My son has asked every day since we went when we are going back to see the cows get milked.  I think he may dreaming of having another frosting shot but I am glad he loved seeing the animals and spending some time on a farm the way I did as a child. 

See the website for info wrightsdairyfarm.com

A well kept Secret

For those of you who know about this place, why did you keep it a secret?  The World War I Memorial Park and petting zoo in North Attleboro is one of the greatest places I have been too.  For starters it is free; yes you read that right, FREE!! 

 There are a number of playgrounds around the park for different aged children, the biggest slide I have ever seen outside of a waterpark and adorable animals.  There are Lamas, horses, goats, deer, donkeys, pigs and a lot of friendly chipmunks.  You can feed the animal’s carrots, apples or the corn that you can purchase for 25 cents a handful. 

 There are picnic tables for lunch and they have porta potties that were actually clean, well as clean as they can get.  The area is under video surveillance which made me feel very comfortable. 

 The big slide is in Julia’s garden area that has water jets, they spray intermittently so the kids can get sprayed in the face,  that was a classic moment!   

 

One area we saw but did not visit was the sand area set up to look like the beach.  Kids were playing with shovels and buckets just like they would at the beach.  The area was beautiful with Adirondack chairs for the parents

      

If your looking for something fun to do on a nice day, pack a lunch and the kids in the car and head to the park!  Don't forget to bring carrots and sliced apples for the animals! 

Sunflowers for Wishes

What an amazing event! Once a year the Buttonwood Farm

has a fundraising event for the Make-a-Wish-Foundation,

an organization near and dear to my heart.

For a $5 dollar donation we road a hay ride and hand fed hay to cows! 

Anderson really loved that part.

 

Then we continued our ride through the beautiful sunflowers, it seemed as though they went on for miles.  After the hay ride we enjoyed a picnic lunch on the grass and then my favorite part, Ice Cream!!!!  Not just any ice cream, its made from scratch, farm fresh and it was delicious.  

We purchased a bundle of Sunflowers to bring home and the proceeds went to Make-a-Wish-Foundation. 

 Check out the website for next years sunflowers for wishes and events throughout the year.

http://www.sunflowersforwishes.com/

Starting a Blog

So many times the words "there is nothing to do in RI" have left these lips.  After some research I now realize I was so wrong.  New England is filled with fun and educational places for Kids and Families.  After searching the Web and finding hundreds of things to do, I put together a list from what I found.  I then made the decision to do all those things and more with my kids!!!  Never again will I say there is nothing to do in RI.  The purpose of this Blog is to have a diary for my kids to have in the future of the wonderful times we shared together as a family, well checking off our list.  I am sure we will find some favorite places that we will visit over and over again through the years.  I also hope that others will discover more about our beautiful State and neighboring States throught the Adventures of my family! 
Thank you for reading and we will not stop looking for new and exciting things to do in RI!  If you have any ideas please share!!!