Field Trips & Field Trips

Spring and Summer farm tours

Book trips for your school, day care or mom's group.

There is so much for kids and adults to learn and enjoy! Take a walk or hayrack ride through our fields and get some hands on learning.

Spring time: Plant a flower in a pot for mother's day! See how vegetables grow in our greenhouses before they're transplanted outside. Help us put baby flowers into planters or hanging baskets. Visit the bees in our observation hive.

Summer: Vegetable picking! Pull onions out of the ground, pick zucchini & yellow squash, or maybe see how broccoli and cauliflower grow. We grow a huge variety of produce and we can let you pick whatever is in season!

Ideas: Make the trip into a writing assignment. Study the botany of a pumpkin or squash flower. Bring the vegetables back to class or home to cut, cook and continue the experience.

Please plan to spend at least 1 hour with us. You will walk and/or take a hayrack ride into our fields. We will make 2-3 stops and talk about the plants we see, how they are grown and how to pick them. Each child will have his own bag and pick 4-6 items to leave with.

Costs:

$6.00 per child

$4.00 parents (Do not receive a bag of produce)

Teachers and students aids are free

Minimum charge of $50.00 per group.

This tour is not available for strawberry picking.

Fall Field Trips

Monday-Friday group tours receive special pricing when school is in session: Advance booking is required. Please call 785-539-1901 to reserve your time slot.

Your group will enjoy:

Interactive story about growing pumpkins (available until 2 pm)
Either a simple maze for younger children or the harder one for older kids or groups with lots of adults.
Every child gets to pick a pie pumpkin out of the patch
Enjoy a hayrack ride around the farm
Pet and feed the animals in our petting zoo and play in our fall fun zone. (Potato cannon and certain other small activities not available to groups)
We recommend at least 1 hour to see everything, but you are welcome to stay as long as you want! We have space for you to enjoy a snack or sack lunch and tons of photo opportunities.

Costs:
$6.00 per child
$4.00 parents (Do not receive a pumpkin)

Teachers and student aids are free
Additional pie pumpkins are $2.00 each

We must insist on at least 10 paying persons per group.

Book as soon as you can as the most popular time slots go quickly.

Homeschool Days

This fall we are offering two Homeschool days for those whose family or group would not be large enough to qualify for a reserved field trip. The hours will run 9 am-2 pm on September 29 & October 4th. Come at your leisure during this self guided day. Prior notice is preferred but not required.

Hayrides will run at 10:00, 11:00, 11:30 & 1:00.

The interactive story about growing pumpkins will be told at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 & 1:30 if there is interest.

Costs:

$6.00 per child

$4.00 parents (Do not receive a pumpkin)

Infants free (Do not receive a pumpkin)

Additional pie pumpkins are $2.00 each

Our Fall Fun Zone includes the petting zoo and both the hard and easy mazes. Please no cutting through the corn.

You may bring snacks or a sack lunch to eat in our concession stand tent. As with field trips, the potato cannon will not be available.