Four year old Moxie Tucker, Minneapolis, peered into a large holding area for one-day-old chicks at Gale Woods Farm during 'Farmyard Funday' Friday, March 30, at the Three Rivers Park District's Minnetrista location. Kids and their parents explored the barn and helped with chores, visited classrooms to learn farm crafts, cooking, and played games.

Gale Woods Farm's Great Pyrenees, Delilah, sticks her nose in a camera lens while Molly McLaughlin, Shorewood, in background, photographs Delilah's two-year-old pup O 'Ryon, as he slumbers in a hay feeder outside the barn area at the Three Rivers Park District's Minnetrista location. McLaughlin and her daughter, four-year-old Delaney (not pictured) were participating in 'Farmyard Funday' Friday, March 30. Kids and their parents explored the barn and helped with chores, visited classrooms to learn farm crafts, cooking, and played games.

Gale Woods Farm's Great Pyrenees pup, O' Ryon, catches some zzzz's in a hay feeder outside the barn area at the Three Rivers Park District's Minnetrista location on a sleepy Spring afternoon Friday, March 30, 2012. O' Ryon and his mother, Delilah, are just one of myriad examples of the farm's variety of friendly animals living on the property and accessible to all visitors to the West Metro teaching and working farm.