Education is a fun and rewarding experience for young and more “experienced” alike! We thank you forconsidering or choosing us for your destination of agricultural education. This guideline helps for a variety of our farm tours/experiences available, if you have special requests, please let us know.

 

Bee Presentations: Depending on the time of year we can have an observation hive ready for everyone to see the bees with a piece of safety glass between you and the lovely girls. We also have classroom visual aids to help learners understand the world of bees. We can also offer a honey bottling experience to take home some of your own honey. Your young learners will be able to play games and try to be a pollinator themselves to help understand the hard work our little bee friends do every day. We can also offer rolled candle making for a hands on experience with beeswax. Coloring sheets and exploration of a hive (with no bees) and an extractor help learners understand more of the world of beekeeping.

-Bees and honey- the talk goes more into how bees collect honey, making honey and uses of honey with some bee lifecycle discussion as well. Honey bottling is fun for this discussion

-Candle making- we use rolled wax sheets for students to make a candle to take home. During this we discuss things bees collect, how wax is made, uses of wax, and how the wax effects our daily lives as well as the bees. This is always cool to the touch, so good for younger students as well.

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Goat Presentations: Lets face it, goats are easier to pet than the bees! During this class, which needs to be earlier in the day due to the comfort and health of the goats, we hand milk goats, use a gentlemachine to milk the goats and discuss goat care and husbandry. The children can sample the goats’ milkand possible some goat cheese made right on the farm.

Soap Presentations: We offer 2 types of soap making class. Both use organic and natural ingredients with essential oils. For the younger students, melt and pour is the best. The soap gets very warm, but not hot enough to cause burns. Students can customize their soap and take it home to use that very day. For the older students and adults we offer the traditional lye making soap class. This is the original way of making soap. We can customize ingredients, additives, and essential oils to really make the soap work for you. During the presentations we talk about soap history, benefits of the ingredients, how each can alter the finished properties of the soaps, and current marketing trends. If goat milk is used in this class, there will a small added fee. We also offer a lip balm making class using beeswax.

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Farm walk: You are your participants you can take a walk around the farm. This is weather permitting. The terrain is fairly even, but rain, ants, and a wandering duck may change the flat surface now andthen. Wearing a good pair of walking shoes that you don’t mind getting a little dirty is probably best. Thepollinator garden and tortoise enclosure are usually a favorite spot for many of our guests. As expectedin natural surroundings, bees, ants, bugs are to be expected. Many we like! “Bee prepared” with a bugspray of your choice.

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Farm Store: Our farm store is on site, adjacent to the classroom. We also offer an honor stand for guests just stopping by for some honey. Most items range from $.50 to $22.

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Lunch Options: We have a covered picnic area, a patio area, and plenty of yard space for a picnic blanket. If simple lunches care-free are desired, we can arrange to have sandwiches/grinders/subs available with a variety of chips and juice/soda. We would need advanced notice to help this occur. We have restrooms and sinks available for handwashing and necessities.

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Group Sizes and ages: We try to be flexible. Each class is best if students are of a similar learning age. This way we can tailor the discussion to an understandable but challenging level. Please no children that are too young to follow directions, putting items into mouths, or can not control themselves. Usually less than 4-5 years old, tends to disrupt the other learners. Parents are more than welcome to bring the younger siblings along, but know that leaving the room or taking a walk outside with the younger one may be needed. Most class size are stopped at 15. Special arrangements can be made for larger groups.

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Menu of Current Add-On Experiences

2 oz Honey Bear Bottling..............$5

Rolled Candle Making..................$6

Melt and Pour Soap class (kids)........$5

Lip Balm Class.......................................$5

Cold Process Soap making (older kids and adults)...........$8

From Goat to Soap Class (older kids and adults)............$9

Hands on Beekeeping (older kids with parents/adults).......$45

(space is limited, minimum veil is required, suits/gloves recommended)

Mead Making (Adults only).........................................$28

Please note, we offer more “adult” classes with the take home project beinglarger during the evenings or for special events, these are listed on our website.

Let us know if you have different ideas and we can put something together.