Meet Your Milk at UNH Open Barn, June 21

The annual UNH Open Barn on Saturday, June 21st, promises to be a day of educational fun for the whole family — with free New Hampshire-made milk and ice cream, wagon rides, tours, and visits with the UNH milking cows and calves:

Meet Your Milk at UNH Open Barn
Fairchild Dairy Center, 36 O’Kane Road off Mast Road Ext, Durham, NH
Saturday, June 21, 2014
10am – 2pm
Free and open to the public

The NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) and the Granite State Dairy Promotion invite the public to come “meet your milk” at the UNH Open Barn Saturday, June 21, 2014. The annual statewide event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at the NHAES/COLSA Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event gives the public the chance to see a working New Hampshire dairy farm that is representative of a typical New England dairy operation. Free New Hampshire-made milk and ice cream, wagon rides, tours, and visits with the UNH milking cows and calves are the highlights of the day’s activities. Visitors can try their hands at making butter and ice cream, enjoy games and prizes, and learn surprising facts about dairy nutrition and the dairy industry in New Hampshire.

For more information: http://colsa.unh.edu/article/nhaes/meet-your-milk-unh-open-barn-june-21