Drinking honey tea, I came to the small farm.

When I passed by the farmland, I saw a field of green and yellowed rice, surrounded by a wooden fence.

Outside, in the stone canal, there is a clear stream of water flowing silently, and it looks like a beautiful rural idyll.

Yan Ganghui was curious: "Hey, is rice still grown in the zoo?" ”

Rice is planted in the spring and takes four months to mature.

Now more than two months have passed, and the growth is very lush, and it has reached the heading stage.

A large area of rice was blown by the wind and swayed slightly, and between the green leaves, you could see slightly green pale yellow ears hanging down.

The grains are plump and full of life, and it makes people happy to look at.

By July, the ears of wheat have turned a beautiful golden color and are ready for harvest.

From time to time, tourists stopped by the roadside, and the parents with their children pointed to the ears of wheat and said with a smile to the children: "The rice we usually eat grows like this!" ”

Yan Ganghui looked at the sign on the side talking about organic agriculture and rice, and thought it was very interesting!

He grew up in the city, except for taking the train when he was in school, and sometimes he could see large areas of farmland along the way, and it was the first time he was so close this time to observe the farmland closely.

Now, on the side of the rice paddies, some new facilities have been added.

Several large compost bins are placed side by side under a tree next to the ridge.

The display board on the side of the box talks about how the raw materials used in composting are fermented, and by the way, introduces the huge manure fermentation tank behind the elephant exhibition area. If you are interested, you can also lift the lid of the box and take a look inside and smell it.

There is a beautiful small pond on the side, the edge of the pond is made of large and small round stones, through the clear water, you can see the pebbles at the bottom of the pond, and the green lotus leaves floating on it.

Next to it are clumps of green grass, shrubs, pale blue and pink wildflowers, with white butterflies fluttering in between.

Under the warm sun, the water is shining, full of greenery, and it looks full of nature.

Half of it is in the sunlight, and half of it is hidden in the trees.

After usual observation, there are often blackbirds and bald bulbuls here, so they chose their favorite mulberry trees, black trees, and tree trees, with wide leaves suitable for nesting and attracting them to settle down, and some fragrant flowers and plants, as a food source for insects, and the plant community is rich and dense.

Su Hui pulled Yan Ganghui with some surprise, pointed to a tree and said, "Look, squirrel!" ”

Yan Ganghui looked over, and a little fluffy squirrel was standing on the trunk of a tree, its small smart black eyes looking around, and its big fluffy tail swaying gently behind him.

He nimbly climbed down from the tree, burrowed into the grass below, and disappeared in an instant.

The small pond attracts a lot of animals, and it is a quiet place to stroll around.

Rainwater can be stored in the pond, and when the rice fields need to be replenished, the rainwater stored here can be used to irrigate the farmland, and the nearby wildlife can also use the pond, and the dense bushes are a good shelter.

There is a keel waterwheel in the pond, which is shaped like the track of a tank, which can be stepped on with your feet to rotate the wheel axle and drive the blades in the trough to scrape the water and irrigate the fields.

The ancient waterwheel contains the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, and also watered the thousand-year-old agricultural civilization of China.

This was specially inquired by Fang Ye and asked an old carpenter in the countryside to make it.

If you want to experience the feeling of irrigating the farmland, you can use the water wheel to carry the water yourself.

Nowadays, they all use diesel engines or water pumps to pump water, and there are not many people who can make this kind of water wheel, and young people have not seen it much, but for some older people, it is indeed a childhood memory.

An old man in a shirt with his grandson stepped forward to stand on the wooden shaft with great interest, hugged the pole on it, and stepped on the pedal.

The waterwheel suddenly made a rhythmic "rattle" sound, and the wheels turned slowly, accompanied by the sound of rushing water, and a clear stream of water rolled out of the leaves and flowed into the field.

The old man stepped on it a few times, and after the addiction came down, and the child had a good time.

The old man wiped his eyes with his hand, as if he wanted to cry, but then he laughed.

With a nostalgic look, he sighed: "Eh, you know that when I was a child, I spent the summer with the waterwheel, but we used to crank it by hand. With his parents or brothers, one of them holds one of the handles of the waterwheel and rocks the waterwheel to carry water from the pond to the terraced fields at high places.

It was a day, early in the morning before dawn to drive the whole car, the car until the sun rose, sweating against the scorching sun, until the sunset. Therefore, it is necessary to have rare food, which is really hard to come by. ”

The child got off the waterwheel and nodded knowingly.

Yan Ganghui couldn't help but say: "This kind of natural education is really good! It not only broadens your horizons, but also gets close to nature, and you can learn a lot of things, which can be said to be truly entertaining. When we have children in the future, we must bring them over often. ”

Su Hui smiled: "Okay! ”

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After feeding the alpacas, playing with the alpacas for a while, we came to the elephant exhibit!

Seeing several gray elephants walking towards the edge of the activity field, tourists were also watching over there through the trench, very lively, I didn't know what was going on, and hurriedly ran over.

came over and found that Fang Ye, who was wearing the director's uniform, was in the activity field, no wonder they were all gathered here.

It's almost June, and some early-ripening watermelons are already on the market!

This will gradually increase the number of tourists, and Fang Ye plans to show the tourists the interesting behavior of elephants eating watermelons, and plans to give the elephant a pedicure later.

It has been a few months since the elephants came, and under the training of the keepers, they have understood the meaning of the target stick.

The elephants came over and looked at Fang Ye, as if to say, what is this calling us here?

Ping Ping stretched out his nose and took Fang Ye's hand and shook it, looking very happy.

At first, he shook his nose because he wanted to eat, but now he is regarded as a friend.

Meiling seemed to have smelled something good, and impatiently stretched her nose into the bag and pulled it up.

Fang Ye also touched Pingping's nose and said with a smile: "Come, I'll send you watermelons to eat!" ”

patted Meiling's nose: "Hey, don't be in such a hurry." ”

Meiling looked indifferent, anyway, it was the most important thing for her to have fruit to eat.

Fang Ye took out a large watermelon from the bag and handed it to Bobo!

Tourists are curious, how will this elephant eat watermelon and swallow it in one bite?

More than a dozen pounds of watermelon, Bobo easily rolled it up with his nose.

Put the watermelon on the ground, roll up half of your nose, raise your foot and step on the other half, there is a muffled "click", and the watermelon cracks on the spot.