THE FARM IS OUR CLASSROOM
Cascade Farm School offers a hands-on experience, engaging students of all ages as well as adults, to understand and take responsibility for the source of the food they consume. Instead of pre-planned lectures and lessons, the work and care of the farm is the mainstay of the educational program. The farm itself is the classroom with gardens, fields, farm animals, forests, barns, and greenhouses. Cascade Farm School offers fall, winter, and spring programs each providing a unique view into a working farm. Our fall programs center around the harvest season with plenty of pumpkins and fall foliage. At the end of the winter our program focus is maple sugaring from collecting sap to making maple syrup. Our spring program focus is “new arrivals” from planting and identifying new seedlings to visiting our baby animals. Day Trips: Our day trips are typically 2 hours long and costs $12 per student and are suitable for all ages. - Fall Day Trips: mid-September through October students will visit our animals, take a hayride tour of the farm, see how apple cider is made, make a scarecrow, and pick a pumpkin. - Spring Day Trips: During May and June students will visit our baby animals, take a hayride tour of the farm, participate in educational games, and transplant a seedling to take home. - Maple Sugaring Day Trip: During late February and March students will tour the farm to collect sap, see how syrup is made and bottled, and get to make (and taste) maple sugar candies.Extended Day Visits: Any of the above programs can be extended for middle-school or high-school students and would include the harvest and preparation of a meal at the farm gardens and kitchen and a farm work project to be completed by the students. Prices range from $15 to $25 per student depending upon activities and season. Please call for additional information. Extended Overnight Visits: Really enhance your farm experience by staying overnight and adding farm chores and work projects to your program. Stay in our nearby farm development facility and wake up early to feed the chickens and do the chores. Overnight visits are priced by season and length of stay as each program is created to suit the age group and educational level of the students. Please call for additional information. Workshops: In addition we offer farm-based workshops and seminars to explore topics related to responsible choices for our food as well as hands-on seasonal craft workshops. See our website for dates and times.