Family Events

Our education program extends into several annual family events.  Join us each season as we celebrate the natural cycles and explore knowledge and skills appropriate to the season. Spring Celebration Enjoy the warming weather by attending our family friendly Spring Celebration.  We invite local farms and other organizations to participate in our celebration and provide activities, crafts, games, and demonstrations.  In past years, activities have included seed planting, felting, a scavenger hunt, nature weaving, crafts, and more.  The Spring Celebration offers food, music, education and fun! The Spring Celebration costs $5 per person or $20 for a family. Fall Festival Our Fall Festival is a celebration of the year's harvest.  Similar to the Spring Celebration, we cooperate with local farms and organizations to provide activities including seed saving, hay climbing, horse team demonstrations, pumpkin decorating and more.  We also run pumpkin hayrides during the festival - take a tractor ride out to our pumpkin patch and pick your favorite pumpkin.  The Fall Festival also offers hot food and lively music.  This is a great educational afternoon for families. The 2010 Fall Festival was a hit...read about the day in Travelling Momma's blog.  The Fall Festival costs $5 per person or $20 for a family. Pumpkin Hayrides Our Pumpkin Hayrides run every weekend in October, Saturday and Sunday leaving on the hour from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.  Meet at the Little River Farmhouse and climb aboard the tractor for a ride out to our pumpkin patch.  There you will learn about the life cycle of pumpkins and pick out your favorite pumpkin to take home with you.  On the ride back to the farm, enjoy an apple from local orchard Sweetser's Apple Barrel and Orchards.  Pumpkin Hayrides are $5 per person or $20 for a family. The Night Tree A holiday tradition for children, our Night Tree event is inspired by Eve Bunting's book The Night Tree.  Her story is about a family that feeds the forest animals by making decorations for a special tree.  Each hour during the day, we read her story together, and then decorate pinecones with birdseed and string popcorn, dried fruit and cranberries.  We take a short hike on the trails to leave these tasty treats in our woods for the animals.  This event costs $5 per child.  Please check our calendar as this event requires reservations.

 

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