Farm Fun
To promote the connection of families to their food and their local farmer
Bring the Whole Family
Unlike anywhere else we invite you and your family to visit with us, meet all the animals and see what is growing. During our farm hours, your family can walk out to pet our milking goats, and visit our chickens and bunnies that are right behind our retail store, all while being kept company by our two friendly farm dogs!
Birthday Parties, Field trips and Playgroups
We charge $85 for birthday parties, field trips or playgroups. Your group of 15 children or less, can explore our farm, visit and pet our working farm animals, and take a farm tour/hay ride (hay rides depend on weather and ground conditions). We have some picnic tables behind our store that make a great area for cake, presents, picnic or snack. The farm activities usually take about 45 minutes, and you can have the space for up to an hour and half.
Milking Demonstrations
If your group is interested in viewing our goat milking process there is a $15 charge in addition to your group fee. Your group will spend about 15 minutes watching and participating in the milking process, get your questions answered, and maybe even get a goat milk sample. Due to our milking schedule, your group must come out on a weekday evening between 4pm-6pm.
Please e-mail Sarah at sfarris@homestead-farms.net to schedule a time for your group or if you have any questions.
Farm Day Camp
Come be a farmer for the day! Kids can join in on our daily chores, watch a milking demonstration, bottle feed the baby goats, gather chicken eggs and more! Each set of camps is a little different as the seasons change, but our main goal is to expose kids to the everyday life of a farmer in an age appropriate manner. Bring a sack lunch and finish the camp off with a picnic lunch on the farm.
Spring and Summer Camps coming up:
Ages 2-6 Parents must stay
Wednesday, May 22 10 am – 12 pm. Lunch: 12- 12:30 pm – FULL
Friday, June 21 9 am- 11 am. Lunch: 11-11:30 -FULL
Friday, July 12 9 am-11 am. Lunch: 11 -11:30 -FULL
Ages 6-12 Parents may stay or leave
Thursday, June 20 9 am-11:30 am. Lunch: 11:30- 12 pm
Thursday, July 11 9 am –11:30 am. Lunch: 11:30-12 pm
Registration is necessary, to register e-mail sfarris@homestead-farms.net with the child’s name, age and a contact number for a parent. Camp is $25/child due at the beginning of the camp. Be sure to wear to older clothes that can get dirty and closed-toe shoes for all our farm adventures.
Earth Day 2013
Come celebrate our earth and spring at our annual Earth Day Celebration. This year’s come and go event will be Monday, April 22 10 am- 7 pm. We invite your family to come visit our real working farm, meet some of the vendors/farmers who have their products in our store, and see what’s growing on our farm. Join us for $1 hayrides, $1 snow cones, animals, seed plantings for the kids and more!
There is no entry fee, but please shop in our store for fresh goodies. For the safety of our animals and yours please leave your pets at home. Feel free to call or e-mail for more info.
Pumpkin Patch
Come out October 2-30 during our regular store hours (Tue-Fri 2-7 and Saturday 9-5) to you local REAL FARM and pick from a variety of reasonably priced pumpkins, hay rides, visit the animals and more!
General admitantance is free. Hay rides are $1 or 1 Operation Christmas Child donation (new small toy) per person. Pumpkins range from $2-$20 depending on size and variety
We’re excited that Garrett Creek Farms (they provide some of the eggs we carry) is growing some organically raised pumpkins from Paradise, which will be available during our pumpkin patch. Come help support your local farms this holiday!
Photo Contest! Make sure to post your favorite picture from our pumpkin patch on our Facebook page. We’ll pick our favorite and the winner gets their picture featured on our website and a $20 gift card.
Have a mom’s group or preschool that needs a pumpkin patch field trip? For $85, your group of 15-20 kids can come visit our pumpkins, animals and get a hay ride for the group. If your group can come out during our regular store hours, there’s no group fee, but individual hay rides fees apply. Pumpkins are additional cost depending on size.
All natural Farm Fun
If there is bad weather, we unfortunately don’t have enough room to house events, so we either have to cancel or reschedule events. Please call Sarah (817)966-0482 to see if the clubs or events are still in session or to reschedule times.
Please keep in mind when planning your trip to the farm that we are a real working farm. This means we are often working on building projects to make our farm better; and sometimes there are flies, mud, and farm smells. Closed toe shoes and older clothes are recommended!