Junior Farmhand

About this event

Junior Farmhand is a 6 week Drop-off Program that will challenge your child’s problem solving, critical thinking and team work skills. Children will begin each day with Farm Chores,

Topics / Tasks Covered:

• Farm Chores

• Animal Husbandry

• AG Projects

• Farm Science & Labs

• Livestock Conservation

• Nature Journaling

• Animal Anatomy (Dissections & Processing)

Curriculum Supported & includes ELA / Writing, Math, Science & History Elements.

This session will consist of 6 - 4 hour long classes, held weekly, on specified Wednesdays, from 8:00am - 12:00pm.

This is a drop-off class taught by Ms. Ashley & Ms. Michelle incorporating the following curriculum into our lessons and activities:

Exploring Agriscience, Farm Anatomy, Harbor & Sprout as well as multiple other supplements

Session Subjects: TBD

Session Dates

12/02

12/09

12/16

1/06

1/13

1/20

8:00am - 12:00pm

Children should bring a water bottle, change of clothes, work/garden gloves, and a packed lunch, with snack & ice pack to each class.

Parents are responsible for the full tuition, regardless if your child is able to attend every date in their Junior Farmhand session. Tickets are non-refundable. PEP/UA funds must be submitted in the EMA at time of registration.

Additional Information

What to wear

- Play clothes

- Closed Toed shoes

- Sunscreen / Bug Repellant

- Hat / Sunglasses

What not to wear

- Anything you don’t want to get dirty

- Open toed shoes

- Clothing with tassels / frays/ hanging string etc.

Release of Liability Waiver: Required from all participants.

Inclement Weather: This is an outdoor class, and we do not have public indoor cover available. Florida weather can change rather quickly, so in the event weather prohibits our ability to complete our schedule activities, all reasonable attempts will be made to reschedule. Please plan accordingly.

Many of our animals free-range. This includes chickens, roosters, turkeys, ducks, farm cats & 3 livestock guardian dogs, all of which are used to visitors. We do have active Honey Bee Hives on our farm.

Parents are responsible for the full tuition, regardless if your child is able to attend every date in their Junior Farmhand session. Refunds will ONLY be issued if an emergency prevents participation in all 6 scheduled class days within a single session. PEP/UA funds must be submitted in the EMA at time of registration.

Class sizes are set to a minimum of 8 & a maximum of 20 students per session.