The day begins with the Cow Plop Open, a round of golf in the pasture. There is a cow costume contest and a mooing competition. And there are a series of segments to the day that revolve around manipulating cow manure, including a Cow Plop Sculpting Contest, a Cow Pie Eating Contest and the Cow Chip Throw. Each fall we went out into the huge garden patch and had a tomato fight. When we ran out, we started throwing the plop.
Teenagers love it.
Finally, Cow Plop Bingo challenges players to pick the square in the pasture which will receive the most manure during the contest, which sometimes takes hours. The depositing cow usually needs a nap during the course of his wandering and almost always scores a direct hit on the border between two squares, causing raucous debate as to which contains the largest, and winning, volume. Agritourism at its finest. Owner Jan Christie likes this calendar compression idea so much that she also holds Halloween in August, complete with trick or treat, apple dunking, hayrides and costumes. Other events at Green Valley Beach include a party with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Italian Night, Line Dancing, and a Penny Social and Gift Raffle.