WILMINGTON, VT - Visitors to the Mount Snow area often make friends, but at Adams Farm, those friends may be two- or four-legged. The animals in the Indoor Livestock Barn are always eager to meet new people, especially if they're holding baskets of tasty treats.

The Indoor Livestock Barn is open every day during Presidents' Week from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. There are plenty of animals to make friends with, including sheep, alpaca, goats, donkeys, pigs, rabbits, chickens, and cows. The hay jump is a great place to expend the endless energy of vacationing children, and they can look for eggs in the chicken coop, taking one home if they get lucky.

The Adams Farm Store offers John Deere tractors for young farmers-in-training. Stuffed versions of the farm animals can go home with the children, and parents will enjoy extending the farm experience with the collection of books, games, and our maple products. The Quilt & Fiber Arts Loft offers many locally made quilts, sweaters, blankets, scarves, shawls, and hats as well as a baby nook, fiber nook, and knitting nook.

Join us on February 25, 2006 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm as we welcome Fiber Artist Leslie Markey as she demonstrates how to use a variety of comb types to prepare fibers for spinning yarns. This topic is a great follow up to the "Harvesting and Spinning Llama and Alpaca" topic from February 18. Combs can be very sharp so we will also learn how to handle them with respect. On Sunday at the same time, come on by with your knitting project or start a new one with our luscious merino yarns during our Knitting Circle.

Adams Farm is a working sixth-generation farm in southern Vermont, offering the public seasonal activities and agricultural interactive experiences for the whole family, as well as a complete Farm Store and Quilt & Fiber Arts Loft. Adams Farm has been rated as a "Top Ten Great Places to Ride into a Currier and Ives" by USA Today, "Top Ten Vermont Attraction" by Vermont Magazine, an "Editors' Pick" by Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England, and was named the 2003 Vermont Sustainable Farm of the Year. For rates and more information, call Adams Farm at 802-464-3762 or visit online at www.adamsfamilyfarm.com and shop.adamsfamilyfarm.com.