Class Days
What is a class day like at Gathered We Grow Farm School?
* We will NOT be offering Farm School class days for the 2024-2025 School Year as we focus on building our Outdoor Art Studio offerings *
Children K-12th grade are invited to join Gathered We Grow Farm School where we teach practical life and educational skills in a local outdoor farm environment. Most classes are held bi-monthly the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month from 10am-2pm. All classes are held outside, rain or shine! Every session includes several key features listed below.
The Schedule…
A regular “Farm School” day looks like this:
1. Farm School Responsibilities and Animal Husbandry –tending to the student-maintained garden, learning about and tending to the animals on site (currently chickens, turkeys, and rabbits, but our farm is ever growing!)
2. Know & Tell Time – practicing the art of narration, public speaking and communication (based on principles by Karen Glass).
3. Literature Discussion (aka Book Club) – 2 to 3 middle grade novels are covered and discussed in depth over the course of a semester. Most books, in some way, relate to farm life.
4. Monthly Life Skill Training Focus – each month we focus on and teach one subject such as wood working, entrepreneurship via a student led “Maker’s Market,” canning and food preservation, botany/horticulture plant identification, navigation and compass skills, bushcraft techniques, etc. Current topics are already scheduled through the 2023-2024 school year. However, new topics will be added and updated for future semesters.
LUNCH and Free Time Break (bring your own main meal, although when our garden harvest is ready we will have farm-to-table snack options!)
5. Extracurricular add-ons such as music, language, art, creative writing, and home-ec are optional *for an additional fee
Join the Farm
Send us an email for more information, to reserve your spot or join our waitlist!