Last week over 750 people visited Tilly Foster for its spring reopening - it was a great beginning. Children enjoyed hayrides and sheep shearing. They ran around wand pet animals that have been part of the life of American farms since the nation's founding. Tilly Foster has already begun providing a community garden available for Putnamites who have no soil of their own.

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