6th Grade Field Trip - Bates Nut Farm - November 8, 2012

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Bates Nut Farm Educational Tours

We offer a variety of group tours and educational experiences that are enjoyed by all ages.

“Nuts For You” Tour: Year round except in October

Located just minutes from Escondido, a visit to Bates Nut Farm gives your group the opportunity to spend time on the farm.  Learn about the history of the Bates family and farm, starting in 1921 with Gilbert Bates and his “Walnut Slope Ranch”. Learn about how the ranch evolved from walnut trees to the retail business it is today. Find out how about how nuts get from the tree to your table.  Your tour includes:

• Bates Nut Farm History
• California Agriculture Nut History
• Learn how various nuts are grown and harvested
• Identification of various nuts
• Nutritional values & uses
• Behind the scenes tour of the roasting, packaging and storage area at Bates Nut Farm
• Marketing from the farm to the market
• Hayride
• Bag of corn to feed the animals
• Personal snack bag

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Notes From My Cell: 

Has seeds and start with flowers. Are fruits.

All pumpkins are girls...

Sisters of pumpkin: 
Knucklehead, ghost pumpkin, fairy tail or Cinderella pumpkin, on inside of pumpkin is orange no matter what color on the outside.

Cousins of pumpkin, squash, turbin squash, watermelon, gourds, cucumber - all fruit.

Big mac pumpkin - Plant on June 1. Harvest on Sept 27.

90-120 days to grow pumpkins.

"Jack be little" pumpkin takes 4 months to grow. 

Bottom of pumpkin was flower. 

Agriculture - farming of vegetable fruits nuts. CA #1 agriculture state in US. 

Nuts grow on trees. Almonds, Pistachios, Cotton. CA leading state to produce cotton to ship. 

Will never find a raw pistachio. Has to be roasted because of fungus.

How to harvest nuts- big tractor and shake the tree and nuts fall to ground. Machine vacuum them up off the floor. 

Small amt of almonds has as much fiber as an apple. 

Cashews are grown in Brazil on trees. On tree is fruit. One fruit produces 1 cashew. Fruit is very toxic to touch. Can eat the fruit on inside. Only workers become immune to it.

Pecans. Georgia, North Carolina.

Brazil nuts, pine nuts, hazelnut. Macadamia nuts have the highest fat content. 

Peanuts are root vegetables. They are related to green been. Legume. 

6th Grade Field Trip - Brass Rubbings Medieval Times - November 1, 2012

Many old English churches house monumental brasses.  Made of flat sheets of brass, the pieces are engraved with figures, coats of arms and sometimes inscriptions.  They are set in a stone slab on the floor or wall of the church.  Some are over 600 years old.

In great Britain during the Middle Ages the social systems were such that each local lord of the manor dominated the village and the church.  When the lord died, he was commemorated in his local abbey, cathedral, or village church according to his status.

Through the twelfth century stone and marble memorials, mostly recumbent statues were the usual forms of memorial. These statues filled every available space, wore badly and probably were not the medium for eternal memorials.

Memorial engravings on brass plates were more durable.  Space savers, they could be walked upon and cost no more than marble or stone.

Brass plates were brought from Cologne, France.  Transportation costs were enormous.  Brass was brought slowly and laboriously by horse and cart or down river by boat to the sea, then by boat across the channel and the North Sea and finally along muddy, stony roads by horse and cart to the engravers’ workshops.

The earliest English brasses date from 1275.  The early fifteenth century produced the finest monumental brasses.  The indents in the floors of the early churches remind us of the thousands and thousands of brasses.  Many of the finest were destroyed by the wholesale destruction of the great abbeys, the Cromwellians who plundered and the Royalists who used brass for munitions.  Elizabeth I issued edicts strictly forbidding any damage or mutilation of monuments to the dead and demanded restoration and repair of damaged monuments.  Brasses that survived other disasters offended Victorians who ripped them up and laid tile.

From the remaining military, ecclesiastical and civilian brasses, we learn much about the life, fashion, armor and customs of the villages, churches, and castles of the Middle Ages.

http://stlukeslb.org/StLukes/brass.html

Brass Rubbing - Griffon

Mama's Brass Rubbing

Description:  See a display of over 100 brass markers depicting medieval life.  Make waxed reproductions. (A piece of history you can take home).  Victorian Tea by Reservation.

Event Maximum and Minimum Costs: Admission to the exhibit is free.  Cost for materials start as low as $5.00.  Group rates for rubbing and for tea.  Mats and ready-made rubbings also available for sale.

Group rate details:  Groups of eight or more by reservation only.  Includes docent talk.  Tea and Rubbing--Adults:  $23.00, children (K-12) $13.00.  Rubbing only:  $6.50 (for any brass with standard price up to $8.00).

Event Website Address:  http://stlukeslb.org/StLukes/brass.html

Event Ticket Link:

Event Date:  October 24 - November 17

Event Start Time: 9:30 AM 

Event End Time: 4 PM

Event Phone number:              (562)439-9496      

Event Email:  brass.rubbing.lb@gmail.com

Event Location:  525 E. 7th St., Long Beach CA 90813-4503