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By RoC.KK PlANTADOSI Rappahannock News Staff Writer
At the Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School in Flint Hill, you probably wouldn't want to automatically associate the words “summer" and “vacation ”
Summer is a break from daily classes for the 15 sevenththrough ninth-graders who attend the five-year-old Farm School - and thus tend its 23 acres of pastures, woods and a pond plus the main schoolhouse, a large hoop bam and assorted outbuildings, a few pigs, a dozen chickens and some sheep.
But throughout the growing season, Mountain Laurel students return at least one day a week to pick tomatoes, peppers, beans and greens from the garden they planted in the spring, and to help farm manager Sarah Cooper transport and sell them at the Front Royal Farmers' Market, among such other chores as mowing, trimming, weeding and cleaning.
The other day. the farm’s three Border Leicester sheep needed to be moved from a front pasture to a clover-laden enclosure with a new sheep house built from 2x4s, heavy-gauge fence and waterproof tarps by student Phillip Grambo, 15, who actually graduated from the farm school in June. Helping out were Phillip’s not-very-identical twin brother, Rory, also bound for Fauquier High School next month, and current students
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