As detailed in a previous blog, we have been sending our friends in Head Start some ‘farm mail.’ These fun little books and letters are delivered each week by us farm folk, in person. When we did our pick-up last week, we received some mail in return! We were unspeakably happy at these gifts from Read More »
To expand our collection of farm stories, we ventured into the staple of every preschool classroom, the alphabet. Of course, we made this alphabet story farm-themed, with each letter representing something from the farm. Of course, some letters were a struggle to come up with (most notably, U and X). Read the story below to Read More »
As of now, we are unable to visit our Head Start friends in their classrooms due to Head Start licensing visitor policy during Covid-19. However, we are allowed to drop things off for them, so we have created the farm mail service! This idea centers around our little mail totes which we just delivered to Read More »
As we prepare to go to Head Start classrooms in the coming weeks, we are so excited to unveil our latest book, Meet the Farm. As these kids haven’t been to the farm since last fall, we doubted how much of the experience they might remember. So, we put together a little cute book to Read More »
With the helpful hints from Wegner Roofing & Solar we made our barn eyeful. Anyone who has been in our horse barn knows it is the cleanest barn known to man where they wonder if we do pressure washing Houston, with each minuscule piece of goat manure picked out of the stalls and every bird Read More »
Our farm has recently been adorned with a set of beautiful handcrafted signs! These signs can now be seen around the farm to designate three popular ceremony sites: the Pine Cathedral, Dawn Redwoods, and Magnolias. These signs, posted atop old tool handles, were unveiled during the recent open house. The signs were created by Joy Read More »
Our pool noodle horses are some of our lesser-known herd members, but are part of the family nonetheless. These creatures were brought to life back in the summer of 2017 and have been a part of our programs ever since. Our Head Start preschoolers so enjoy riding through our riding ring atop them! The pool Read More »
Happy first day of school to all our friends at Frederick County Public Schools! A number of our Head Start students are heading back into the classrooms soon and we wish them well! We are so excited to bring our outdoor programming to them in new ways this year as they aren’t able to come Read More »
For more information, please contact Kaili van Waveren, Executive Director
301.271.2823 • [email protected]
