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Farm Field Trips

Farm field trips teach children where food comes from and who grows it. Children today are one or more generations removed from agriculture. Many people worry that children in inner cities don’t know about farms, yet we often forget that children in rural areas aren't familiar with farms either.  

On the farm, there are endless opportunities to educate children and reconnect them to local agriculture. Give children an opportunity to learn by touching, smelling, tasting, and doing.

 

Story of a Farm Field Trip

 

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How ASAP Can Help

Check out the resources below. Farmers and teachers can learn how make farm field trips as meaningful and educational as possible.

If you’re looking for a farm to visit, download the PDF The Hayride: A Resource for Educational Farm Field Trips. You can also search the online Local Food Guide. Just enter "tour" under the product or service category to generate a list of farms in your area that welcome visitors.

**School field trips are often a specialized service that farms may not be equipped to provide.**


Still have questions? Contact Emily or Molly.

 

Resources

The Hayride: A Resource for Educational Farm Feild Trips (PDF, 2009)

Farm Field Trip Toolkit (farmers and educators - 2007)

Farm Field Trips as a Source of Farm Income (PDF)

Good Farm Field Trip Children's Books

 

Links

A Farmer's Guide to Hosting Farm Visits for Children

Community Alliance with Family Farms - Farm-to-School Farm Visit Manual

EXPLANATION OF EFFECT OF 2005 LIMIT LIABILITY LAW ON AGRITOURISM FARMERS IN NORTH CAROLINA  (PDF)

Get Real Get Maine - School Tours & Orchard Field Trip Guide

Life Lab - Garden Classroom Field Trips

NH Farm to School! Program’s Farmers’ Guide to Hosting a Class Fieldtrip (PDF)

Shelburne Farms

 
Kids Comments on Farm to School

From Nikolay
The garden lets me learn outside of school. It let me be able to smell different smells. I like to taste things in our garden.
 
From Ashley
The school garden helps me make good food choices when I'm shopping with my folks.
 
From Sam D.
Thank you for teaching us about growing and planting plants. It was graet seeing Swiss chard and kale plants. And zinnias lettuce and onin seeds. We will all water and wamth.
 
From Breanna
I platid some onions. I appreciate you lating us have a garden. It was fun pulling the weeds. And fun plating the seeds. When some of them need pold we will pull them up.
 


 
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