Preparing for Winter

The field trip experience includes 4 hands-on workshops:

• Food Preservation Colonists spent an extraordinary amount of time preserving food for the winter. Students will learn and participate in those processes, including salting, pickling, drying and jellying.
• Colonial Animals and Community Animals played an important role in the survival of colonists. Students will learn about the role of chickens, oxen, pigs, and sheep by visiting the many animals at our farm. Colonists survived by supporting each other in a community. Students will learn about the importance of community and family jobs.
• Colonial Cooking Participants will make a colonial bread and learn about the many ingredients that colonists relied on for cooking. And of course, we will need to sample our colonial breads!
• Colonial Crops Through hands on activities students will learn about the three main crops. Activities will include pressing apples, shucking corn, and grinding grain.

Winter Farming

Join us for a new maple sugaring program designed for families. It will include children of all ages and involve parents. The program is a two hour program with two stations. The first station will be at the sugar shack in which families learn all about the history of maple sugaring, why sap runs, identifying sugar maples, how to tap a tree and learn about how we make maple syrup at Ambler. The second station will be in our main building and involve making corn muffins, learning about the history of the ingredients, taste testing maple syrups and adding Ambler Farm maple syrup to the muffins for sampling. The families will receive all instructions and then have their own cooking station to make the muffins. 

Cost of this program is $35 for the whole family. That's all!

 This program is not a drop off program.

Join us for our Spring on the Farm Program designed for homeschooled families. Children of all ages and their parents will be active participants in this one-of-a-kind educational program learning about the importance of honey bees. Families will meet Ambler Farm’s honey bees in our observation hive, sample honey and learn about the current threats to the honey bee population. Pollination and the parts of plants will be covered as well. Families will enjoy a hayride around the farm to see what’s growing, plant in our educational or production gardens and meet our farm animals, with a focus on rabbits and their adaptations. Please note: This is not a drop-off program.

Cost: $35 per family

Fall on the Farm

Join us for our Fall on the Farm Program designed for homeschooled families. The field trip experience includes: 

• Guided animal visits to learn about the importance of farm animals and their adaptations including our turkeys, chickens and goats.

• Families will visit the pumpkin patch to harvest their very own sugar pumpkin(small) to take home! Two pumpkins per family with additional pumpkins available for purchase at $5 each. 

• In addition to the tractor ride around the farm, the haymaze is an exciting activity for the young ones in your family.

• Your family will learn the basics of pickling and make their very own pickles to take home. Two pints per family are provided in the registration fee. Additional pints available for $5 each while supplies last.

Please note: This is not a drop-off program.

The cost of the program is $35 per family with a $10 materials fee