Autumn Harvest Adventures 2012

Educational Farm Field Trips- Where Learning is Fun

As each generation passes, more and more children are losing the connection to their agrarian heritage, and many children no longer know where their food supply originates. That is the reason many schools bring their children to Bi-Water Farm each fall so that the children can re-connect to the land. We have been hosting farm field trips for 18 years, emphasizing on-the-farm learning as well as fun. This is truly an enhanced classroom learning experience for students.

A Bi-Water Farm & Greenhouse field trip takes place in an outdoor farm setting. It is designed to provide a learning experience about the natural world in the context of seasonal farm activities.

Field Trip Schedule

September 20-21, 2012 9:00am - 1:00pm

September 27-28, 2012 9:00am- 1:00pm

Every Tuesday – Friday in October 9:00am – 1:00pm

Field trips last from 2- 3 hours when including time to eat lunch (If you do not allow this amount of time, then available activities will be limited.

Typical field trip itinerary

• Your group will be met at your bus upon arrival at the farm and directed where to park. Cars park separately from the buses.
• Groups will gather at their assigned pumpkin sign.
• Welcoming remarks and farm orientation.
• Hayride to Corn Maze and the pumpkin field. Please remove all personal items from wagons before entering Maze. You may not return on the same wagon.
• First, enter and solve the Corn Maze. After that, each child gets to pick a pumpkin from the field for their own. If you are marking the children's pumpkins for ID, now is the
  time to use the Sharpie before you re-load the hayride.
• Reloading of hayrides and return to the barn area where we loaded.
• Unload children and place pumpkins in designated area.
• The following items you can do in whatever order that you wish
  • 1. Visit the learning stations.
  • 2. Eat lunch
  • 3. Visit animal petting area
  • 4. Play all of the fun stuff as time allows until departure.
• Retrieve pumpkins from the designated area before loading buses to depart.

Reservations are required

Field Trip Fees

$6.50 per student and siblings if they are 2 years and older.

$7.50 per all other adults (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles) If the school would prefer not to collect the parents entry fee, then we can collect this in our farm market.

Teachers are free.

Price includes hayrides, pumpkin for the children's pumpkin field and all of the children's activities.

A single payment for the entire group is required.

For school groups of 15 or more during regular school hours.

Lunch

Designated area for children to eat their lunches.

There will be concessions open for items like hamburgers, hotdogs, BBQ, etc.

Field Trip Planning Guide

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