Fall Farm School
Our mission
At Farm School, our mission is to engage students with local agriculture and ecosystems to enrich their schooling with experiences in farming, community skills, and place based education, all while building confidence as members of a natural community.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is divided into two main subjects: farming and community skills.
Farming
We believe that understanding where food comes from is vitally important, and basic knowledge on food systems is not enough. At Farm School, students will become intimately connected with their food and farming through real world projects, experiments, lessons, and daily chores. Through the course of the semester, students will feel empowered as farmers, and gain an appreciation for the complexities of where our food comes from.
Community skills
Farming could not exist without a community, and so we will focus the other half of our curriculum on those skills necessary for sustaining community of people in the world. Some community skills we believe in are food preparation, cooking and preserving, nature literacy, crafts, art, communication, and emotional intelligence.
In addition to these curricular elements, we will be weaving traditional school skills such as reading, writing, math, and science into everything we do. For example, we might have to practice our reading to research the best food to feed our pigs, and then use math to calculate the amount of food we should be feeding them based on their weight and age. The possibilities are endless!
Schedule and Ages
Fall Farm School programs meet one day per week for 8 weeks, from September through october.
All programs are open to students in any type of school situation (public, private, homeschool)
Ages 4-6
Thursdays September 12th - October 31st
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Grades 1-5
Fridays September 13th - November 1st
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Sample Daily Schedule (1st-5th Grade)
9am: Drop-off
9:15: Welcome circle, intro activity
9:30: Morning chores (e.g. feed the pigs and water the garden)
10:00: Snack
10:15: Morning Workshop (e.g. walk the farm property to make a map, harvest and snack on veggies along the way!)
12:00: Lunch and free play
12:45: Sit spot or quiet activity
1:00: Afternoon Workshop (e.g. make chimichurri and taste with freshly harvested carrots)
2:45: Afternoon Chores (e.g. collect eggs, water plants)
3:15: Closing circle
Tuition
Tuition for Farm School will be $650 for the 8 weeks.
Refund Policy
We can offer a 50% refund (less a $75 registration fee) on your registration deposit if you chose to cancel 10 or more days before the start of programming. If you cancel within 10 days that deposit is non-refundable.
We are unable to offer refunds if students miss a day due to sickness or other commitments.
Scholarships
All scholarship applications are due by Monday September 2nd
Thanks to the generous support of our community, we are pleased to offer partial scholarships for this semester of Farm School! If you would like to donate to our scholarship fund, please email our Education Director at RockyCreekEducation@gmail.com
To submit an application, click on the button below.