A Summer Day at Calleva Farm

Youth Ministry students spent a day at Calleva Farm this summer learning about some of the choices that we can make to reduce our personal impact on the environment: During our visit, we learned about plant life cycles and helped to harvest vegetables in the  farm’s greenhouse and garden.  Leviticus 25:1-7  teaches us that land must be given a rest and not abused.

We sampled grapes and pears that were grown on the farm and saw the importance of crop rotation and eating seasonal food, grown without fertilizers or pesticides. 

By mingling with humanely raised farm animals like chickens, pigs, and sheep, we experienced a first hand example of God’s command, Genesis 2:15, that we are to care for God’s creation.

Our day ended at a stream on the farm where students searched for macroinvertebrates such as snails, worms, mollusks, leeches and crustaceans. This activity offered an observable and measureable indicator of stream health. The more organisms, the healthier the water.