We raise wheat, corn and rye, grind meal and bake our own bread. We raise vegetables, melons, berries and have a small orchard of apple and pear trees and so provide all manner of vegetables and fruits for table use. The farm uses organic methods , without pesticides or poisons. Every student in the Upper Forms spends one day a week working on the farm, under expert guidance. For the boys who come from cities and towns as most of us do, this is an experience every day filled with astonishment.
Responsibility becomes a very lively notion.
There is much learned, as well, about ecology animal husbandry and earth science. And, here too, is seen the affirmative way , for, as Cardinal Newman observed, nature is a parable of realities greater than itself. Thus we see in nature God's omnipotence and providence. After Dinner, three or four evenings a week, there is performance, music or theatrical. Sometimes these are live performances but more often they are on film.