Life on this farm two hundred years ago was difficult.
The men did the farm work. They did the plowing. The women did the housework. They did the cooking. They did the cleaning. They made the clothes.
If the children were big enough to work, they fed the animals.In the summer, the women did the laundry in the pond. But in the winter, it was too cold to do the laundry there. They had to heat water over a fire.To do ironing, they heated an iron over a fire.To make meals, they made a fire inside an iron stove.
The men and the women had to do all their work before sunset.After the sun went down, it was too dark to do farm work or housework.
They used oil lamps. And that's how the children did their homework.They did their compositions with ink pens.If they made a mistake, they had to do their homework all over again.
Life wasn't easy then, was it? Do your family a favor this weekend.Visit the farm! You don't need to make reservations.You don't need to make an appointent, just make a phone call to check the opening and closing times.