FALL Family Farm Encounter
2019

Mondays, 10 - 12 AM 
$15 per child (parents and caregivers free)
**Registration Required -- see below for online payment link**

Want to get outside for a mini farm experience? Bring the whole family out to the farm for a  homestead visit. Hold a chicken! Pet and groom a goat! Get your hands in the garden!  Groom a horse! 

You'll start with a  round of farm chores including caring for the chickens and pigs. Then you'll get some time to play in the haybarn. Storytime and an educational activity will be scheduled for each family fun day. Please bring a drink and a snack / lunch for story time.

Fall Adventures
  • August 26: Exploring what we eat in the garden, tastes, colors and different vegetables and taking some home.  Making art with vegetables. 
  • September 9: Herbs and Kids:Learning some great kid's herbs, tasting, exploring why we like them.  Taking herb bundles home. Making herb prints.
  • September 16: Mushrooms: What are these silly things-- exploring shapes sizes and colors.  Why we like them and how helpful they are. Making mushroom rocks for the garden.
  • September 23: Garden Potion making class-- let's get silly with what we can create and dare we taste our potions. We will do group work this day!!  
  • September 30: Nature games for fun in the orchard.  As Autumn rolls in we will play games in the Orchard and notice tree changes around us. We will also do a Fall art awareness group Mandala. 
  • October 7: Leaves-- we will explore leaves and their changes.  Make individual leave pounding art to take home.
  • October 14: Apples and Apples-  let's make applesauce, explore the cool insides of apples. 
  • October 21: Pony grooming and pony rides.
  • October 28: Putting the garden to rest.  Talking about the cycles of season, why plants don't continue year round, sun changes, cooler weather .. fun hands on experience and game

*This is not a drop in class as they fill up quickly. You must register online for the class and it begins at 10AM.   Also, we hold farm classes rain or shine, unless you hear from the teacher.  Hope to see you on the farm!