We have a 67 acre farm that we own - it is about an 45 minutes from our home. We go there for weekends and sometimes for just a Sunday afternoon. The children like to hike, go creeking, ride the quads and go fishing. Does anyone else have a hobby farm? What kinds od activities do you do there? We are looking for some ideas. I am thinking about trying to do a family camp out there - but our trailor one has one bathroom - so we would have to rent some port-o-lets! So do have special activities taht you do?

Well, you could invite me. With my four boys and DH, we can bring the circus act! Or the smackdown act-depending on the day! But really, that sounds pretty blissful-your kids are pretty lucky!

grandparents had a farm all my life LOVED going there every weekend and all summer. still love going there, something about their house just makes me so safe

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I take "hobby" farm to mean a none functional farm???

67 acres is a lot of solitude. You could perform some ritualistic sacrifices..... as a family of course.

JUST KIDDING! (Un-bunch the panties gals, it was only a tasteless joke. )

OP, you mentioned your trailer only has one bathroom.... Do you have a really large family? I'm not sure I follow you on how only having 1 bathroom is enough of a drawback to keep your family from camping. When I was growing up, in a family of 8, we went camping all the time and we only had 1 bathroom. When you're camping, that's what the woods are for..... It's called roughing it! (LOL) Of course I have 5 brothers, so it wasn't quite as rough for them.

Are you opposed to guns/weapons? If not, you could try something like paintball. I've never done it before, but I've had some people tell me it's a lot of fun. Or, there's always archery, BB & pellet air guns.... just for target practice, of course. We did archery when I was in 7th grade (PE class) and I really sucked at it. But, I use to target practice (with real guns) when I was growing up and it was a lot of fun. I was actually a pretty good aim. My father use to fish and hunt big time when we lived in Alaska. I never had the heart to shoot any critters, but he would take me and my brothers out for target practice occasionally and it was a lot of fun.

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That is so cool, OP!

I would love to have a place to just "get away". Especially one with acreage!

I laughed at your tasteless joke-am I bad?

have a pond dug, stock it with some fish, go camp, fish for dinenr and cook over the fire. not sure about the bathroom thing, you go to a ballgame anda couple thousand fans and like 3 bathrooms, you should be able to do it lol. Boys can "get back to nature".

Reminds me of a car trip from Fayetteville to Mystic caverns in Arkansas, <The boys all have weak stomachs when doing many curves on trips> anyway the baby gets sick so we pull over, I'm turning green cause i have a weak stomach to vomit, dh starts cleaning the car seat out when my son looks down and says "Is that my biscuit?" UGH
the 9 year old says he has to pee theres nothing around and dh is still cleaning so i tell him to go behind a bush. he gives me this look like I'm crazy and says "What is someone sees me!??"

I've also banned dh from takeing the Pig Trail it's a small scenic byway east of Fort Smith that double back and twists and turns. after making the kids sick so many times on it He's been banned, pretty drive but..... lol

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Yes it is a non functioning farm - because we live so far from it - I would love to plant fruit trees but I am afraid they would die.

My concern on the bathroom - is if we have lots of guests out to the farm for large camp outs - there is only one bathroom.

We do have a large pond that is stocked with bass - and the kids enjoy fishing.

I do have two jack russels that we could perform some ritualistic sacrifices on - will have to give that a go.

I laughed too :x

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