Category: Youth Programs

We are so delighted to announce the return of Third Thursdays at ThorpeWood, a nature-themed storytime event. In years past, this event was held in our ‘tree room’ in front of our beautiful tree mural. Stories were read by different local librarians. We hope to return to this perfect storytime area in the future, but Read More »

We were so thrilled this month to have our friends from Camp Journey out to our farm. Over the course of the month, four crews of their kids took a little field trip to enjoy our property. Two groups came to feed our animals, go on a night hike and have dinner here. After trekking Read More »

With sixty of our Head Start friends in virtual classrooms this year, we decided to join in on their weekly sessions over Google Meets. At the start of their class, we introduced ourselves and took a tour around the farm – showing them our barn, horses, goats, dogs and more! Towards the end of the Read More »

For our third week of farm mail deliveries, we brought our two silkie hens, Dizzy and Daphne to join in the fun! Our items of farm fun included a laminated class copy of our latest book, The Farm Alphabet (read it here, watch a read-aloud of it here), a small booklet copy of the same Read More »

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 »