Field Trips

from $10.00

CALLING ALL EDUCATORS!!

Parker Learning Gardens is a nonprofit educational farm that hosts field trips for students K-12 all year long. Our staff can accommodate groups of up to 40 people with accompanying school-provided chaperones.

Our unique 33-acre organic farm is home to many thought-provoking natural spaces, including 12 Demonstration Gardens, a 3-acre Bamboo Forest, a Fruit Orchard with 500 trees, a Linden Tree Grove, and a 4-acre wild “old-growth” Hazelnut Orchard. Our Microbe Island demonstration area includes a composting and vermicomposting center, as well as a large biochar kiln! We rotate pigs and chickens to “work” the farm, in addition to hosting a number of sheep (100+) every year in the winter season to maintain the grass and bamboo. We practice organic regenerative stewardship with applications that provide insight into: seed germination, soil science, biodiversity, composting, plant identification, pollination, growing nutritious food, biochar benefits, water conservation, the soil food web, gardening with pigs and chickens, cover cropping and so much more.

IMPORTANT INFOMATION:

Please email Sasha at info@parkerlearninggardens.org to arrange a date and time BEFORE making field trip payment. If you do not, your order will be refunded.

Please print, complete, and sign a liability waiver for each minor student and each adult who will be present at the farm.(Click here to download)

Important: Waivers for minors must be filled out and signed by their legal guardian. Chaperoning staff members may not complete these forms on behalf of a student.

CALLING ALL EDUCATORS!!

Parker Learning Gardens is a nonprofit educational farm that hosts field trips for students K-12 all year long. Our staff can accommodate groups of up to 40 people with accompanying school-provided chaperones.

Our unique 33-acre organic farm is home to many thought-provoking natural spaces, including 12 Demonstration Gardens, a 3-acre Bamboo Forest, a Fruit Orchard with 500 trees, a Linden Tree Grove, and a 4-acre wild “old-growth” Hazelnut Orchard. Our Microbe Island demonstration area includes a composting and vermicomposting center, as well as a large biochar kiln! We rotate pigs and chickens to “work” the farm, in addition to hosting a number of sheep (100+) every year in the winter season to maintain the grass and bamboo. We practice organic regenerative stewardship with applications that provide insight into: seed germination, soil science, biodiversity, composting, plant identification, pollination, growing nutritious food, biochar benefits, water conservation, the soil food web, gardening with pigs and chickens, cover cropping and so much more.

IMPORTANT INFOMATION:

Please email Sasha at info@parkerlearninggardens.org to arrange a date and time BEFORE making field trip payment. If you do not, your order will be refunded.

Please print, complete, and sign a liability waiver for each minor student and each adult who will be present at the farm.(Click here to download)

Important: Waivers for minors must be filled out and signed by their legal guardian. Chaperoning staff members may not complete these forms on behalf of a student.

Field Trip Options:

Depending on the season, we can offer a variety of guided customizable field trips. Below is a list of options to provide an idea of how we have put together field trips for other visiting classroom groups. Each of these options can be modified to provide appropriate content and excitement to any particular age or experience level. Let us know what you would like us to focus in on, and we will do our best to compliment your existing curriculum.

General Educational Tour of Farm & Gardens (1 to 1.5 hours – $10/student)

1. Includes a bamboo forest adventure with discussions about the grass family & carbon sequestration, a walk through the demonstration gardens, an overlook of our fruit and hazelnut orchards, and a visit to see our hardest working farmhands – the pigs and chickens. Sometimes we can squeeze in a mini-lesson such as smelling and tasting different herbs in the mint family, a rainbow nutrition activity, a short worm/vermicompost lesson, or something similar. It depends on how fast everyone walks and if there are any delays (we find it is good to have backup activities to allow more flexibility on timing).
2. This option includes quite a bit of walking, with many retreats from the elements along the way.
3. This option includes a complimentary bamboo Hawaiian trumpet for each student to take home as a memento.

In-depth lesson on One of the Following (2 hours – $15/student)

    1. Biochar/Carbon Sequestration/Soil Regeneration/Composting/Vermicomposting
    2. Bamboo Forest & Native Bees w/ Native Bee House Crafting
    3. Pigs in the Garden – Utilizing pigs (animals) to regenerate soil and as organic pest control, ethical pig husbandry, rotational grazing, and nutrition needs (they’re omnivores like us). This may include meeting the chickens as well!

Customized to Compliment your Present Area of Study

We can work with you to customize a field trip suited to what students are learning at that time. Let’s talk more about this to determine how we can accommodate. (info@parkerlearninggardens.org)

We are looking forward to working with you & your students!