How would you like these cuddly critters for your neighbors?! We share a front yard with two rabbit houses – each house holds about 25 bunnies – all of which are prodigiously producing, of course.

Naomi and Quinn like to hold these cute, furry friends – especially the babies, one of whom we have named Sniffles and another, Small.

Kizitu is pictured – our faithful rabbit keeper. He works for Master Alex, one of our agriculture teachers who also helps with sustainability in the farms and animal projects. Kizitu arrives in our front yard around 7 each morning to open the tarp walls of the houses and give the rabbits their first meal of abundant jungle vines. Kizitu finally finishes his rabbit care for the day around 6, after several trips to bring rabbit greens fresh from the bush and clean up after the rabbits.

Have you ever heard a rabbit scream? It’s an awful sound and one we don’t hear so very often. The rabbits scream when they are taken from their cages for immunizations – they don’t like them very much. They also don’t like being carried. People here carry rabbits by their ears, just like they carry chickens by their feet. The rabbits stay nice and still while being carried this way; they look calm but I’m thinking they’re just afraid their ears may rip off if they move!

Sadly these are not pets – in fact Naomi and Quinn are sometimes served rabbit meat for school lunches! ( just don’t tell them that’s what they’re eating!) Rabbits are a source of reproducible and hopefully sustainable meat production for our staff and eventually students. So we love these rabbits for a little while but we don’t get too attached. CSB’s rabbit farm and other sustainable farm projects were started with seed money from the Global Fund for Children.