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Rancho Alegre Farm is the perfect place for an educational, fun, and interesting outdoor field trip. We provide weekday field trips for day cares, public and private schools, home-schooled groups, and play groups. Field trips can be scheduled for Tuesday - Thursday and generally last 1-1 ½ hours. However, we encourage you to use our picnic pavilions after for a picnic lunch.
Our field trips include:
- Curriculum-based environmental educational talk tailored to the children's age
- Turning compost
- Touring the farm via a hay ride
- Petting/Feeding our farm animals
- Grooming a pony
- Milking a goat (when in season)
- Making homemade cheese*
- Take-home agricultural activity book*
- Picnic pavilions for lunch
*Cheese making/sampling not done for 2nd grade and below
*Take-home activity books not provided beyond 5th grade
Cost: $7 per child with a minimum of 10 paying children
Teachers, aides and chaperones recieve free adminission for providing adult supervision. Children under two-years-old are also admitted for free.
Please call two days before your scheduled field trip to give a more accurate head count so we can plan accordingly. Also, please arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled time to give time for parking and gathering the children. Click here to see our field trip scheduling form or here for a map for your bus driver. |