This morning I woke up to find that it had snowed in the night. The trees and shrubs in our garden, and the grape vines in the vineyard looked as if they had been tucked up under a cozy, fluffy eiderdown. I was grateful that I had managed to get everything ready for the colder months in time, though the baby olive trees in their pots still need to be put under cover so that they don't freeze.
Getting a farm ready for the winter is not an easy task, and in today's picture book you will get to spend some time with a family who spend many busy days putting their farm to bed for the cold season.
Sleep tight farm: A farm prepares for winter
Getting a farm ready for the winter is not an easy task, and in today's picture book you will get to spend some time with a family who spend many busy days putting their farm to bed for the cold season.
Sleep tight farm: A farm prepares for winter
Eugenie Doyle
Illustrated by Becca Stadtlander
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Chronicle Books, 2016, 978-1-4521-2901-3
It is December and the days are getting shorter and
darker. The big hay and corn fields are empty, the trees are bare, and all is
quiet, but at the farm the people are busy; it is time to put the farm “to bed”
for the winter.
Out into the
cold morning they go to cover the strawberry plants with hay so that they will
be protected from “winter’s frosty bite.” Raspberry plants are also prepared for the
winter, their canes cut back so they cannot be cracked by wind and snow.
The last of the
fall vegetable crops, kale, carrots, beets and potatoes, are harvested and
stored in the barn. The hay was brought in weeks ago and now Dad goes out into
the field to plant a cover crop so that the fields are replenished before the
next season.
Wood is chopped
so that the house will be kept warm through the winter months, and the chicken
coop and bee hives are winterized so that the chickens and bees will be warm
and safe. This is much to do before the farm and it people can take a
well-earned rest.
In this
wonderful picture book we see how the members of a family work together to get
their farm ready for winter. There is a lot of work to be done, and at the same
time there is a lot of gratitude to offer up for all that the farm has given
the family in the spring, summer, and fall. The farm has been good to them and
they have not forgotten this.
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