School tours
Wander’s Tiny Farm can be booked for school, daycare, or group home trips on days we are not open to walk-in visitors. School, daycare, or group home trips can be booked year-round. In the winter we have fun winter activities, like a small tubing hill and a covered skating rink! Field trips include marshmallows for roasting over a campfire in the roasting shack and milk to feed the bottle calves (only in spring and summer).
School groups can freely roam over the farm park, either in small groups with a chaperone or the chaperones can spread out over the farm park and the kids move between the different activities themselves. We have noticed that for most school trips the later option is most relax and fun for both the kids and the chaperones. For school field trips a ratio of one adult per five children is mandatory.
We have a large building with tables and chairs for the kids to eat their snacks or lunch - there is room for up to 90 people to have lunch at once. Larger groups can eat lunch in 2 shifts. We currently don’t have a drinking water station yet, so kids need to bring their own water.
Because we highly value education we handle a discounted admission fee for field trips on days that we are closed to walk-in visitors. Field trips are $5.50 +tax per person (same rate for both kids and adults, including chaperones, support workers, and teachers) and start at $165 +tax (=30 people). Smaller groups are welcome however the minimum fee of $165 + tax applies.
Multiple groups can visit our farm during the same time slot. We can host up to about 150 people at once. We will try to book classes of similar age at the same time.
The standard time slot for field trips during our busy season (in April, May, June, and September) is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10.00AM till 1:00PM. We might be able to accommodate other moments for groups who are unable to make our standard time slot work.
At some point in the Spring we will open up on Fridays to walk-in visitors, and then small groups are also welcome. On walk-in Fridays there will be no time slot, or minimum charge, but the price per person will be our regular admission fee of $7.50 +tax per person entering the farm park. We do have a 12.5% discount when you buy 12 or more regular tickets at once.
It is certainly possibly to book for multiple classes or even the whole school at the same time. If you book a group of 125 people or more, we won’t book any other classes at the same time. If you want to book for multiple classes please have one contact person for all communications.
Because we are a farm and provide different farm education opportunities, a class trip to Wander’s Tiny Farm could be eligible for a grand from ‘Ag in the classroom’.
To book a field trip please fill in the ‘field trip bookings form’ and we will contact you about booking for a specific date. Please note that we may take a few weeks to get back to you for booking request for trips far in advance. But you are never too early to fill in the form!