Homestead & Farm
Class
Visits
Land Stewardship
For
ALL
Ages!
Are your students studying: plants, farming, sustainability, healthy eating, green living, or do you just want to get them up and out of the classroom with a field trip that is both fun and educational?
We welcome you to let us help you curate a day of learning on our farm. Tell us what you are learning, or what you hope for them to get out of their day here with us and we will create a visit that helps bring your lesson plan to life.
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Farm tour
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Educational games
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Seed starting
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Transplanting baby plants
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Composting
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Butter making
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Hands on Harvesting
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Hands on farm to table snack prep
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Riverside Farm Fresh picnic
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River swim (life jackets)
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River float (life jackets & tubes)
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Farm life overnight adventure
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And more…
Activities
We Can
Accomodate:
Please let us know if there is an activity that you don’t see on our list but would like for your class to experience.
Scroll!
For a typical day at the farm!
Our
Farm!
A Day At
Start your Classe's Day with a tour of our Conuco, & Farm where you will see the ways this land has sustained our family for generations; maintaining a mix of: traditional Dominican plants, produce, and cultivation methods, permaculture principles, modernized growing techniques, worm farming, aquaponics, composting, and animal raising; that together, allow us to provide for our family, and yours, everyday.
Farm Fresh
“Generations of Dominican Homesteading passed down from our hands to your class's”
Float
River
Next, After some hard work, and hands on learning, clean off and take a float down the river that raised us, a majestic place where we’ve grown up fishing, playing, and cooking riverside with our friends and family. (River Activities are, of course, optional)
Inspired
Leave
Leave inspired to start your own traditions in cultivation: whether it’s a planter box, a backyard garden, your very own homestead, or a trip to your local farmers market we hope that you leave: with a deeper connection to the earth; inspired by the power of family tradition & cultivation, and as a new member of our extended family.
Transition into a planned lecture, or allow us to curate a hands on activity that captures the concepts you hope for your students to learn.
Hands-On
Lunch
Finally, end your day at our table with a lunch filled with a fusion of Traditional Dominican Dishes and farm fresh produce.
Option 1
Simple Yet Immersive...
Option 1 is simple! Start with a tour, give your students "food for thought" and then let us help you plan a series of follow-up visits that will fit your curriculums' & your students' goals, which allow us and your student time to get them immersed and open to land stewardship in a meaningful way.
On Campus Project
Design or expand on an on-Campus agricultural based project with long term, hands-on, learning potential: these possibilities could be endless but they give your students the opportunity to: see something through its full life-cycle; experience long term self-actualized success; problem solving; responsibility, consistency, day-to-day, and/or week-over-week care
Projects Like:
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Installing New Garden Beds
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Revitalizing Old one's
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Curate a mini traditional Dominican Conuco
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On-site compost piles
It can be good to introduce the potential ideas to your students before their farm tour so that their trip feels like research, and preparation and the project feels inclusive of their ideas, since they will be the vehicle behind its sustainability.
Second Touch
Come back to the farm for a more focused trip/ workshop, you can pick from any of the activities we have listed, OR work with us to invent a new one that coincides with the project the youth have decided on; what questions they may now need answered; or skills they hope to develop. It can be part hands on the land and part planning and ideating on how to actualize their project, or simply continue their learning, and immersion into land stewardship right here on our farm.
Ready, Set, Go!
Schedule an event either at our farm or on your campus where students and even their families can participate in seeing, cooking, tasting, and starting seeds for the things they are going to be growing...
This Event helps get the students excited for the prospect of the final product and gives the seeds or cuttings they will be planting a face a name, and a flavor.
Home Grown & Ready to Go
We’ll visit your school to support you and your students' very first on-campus harvest as a refresher on what they learned on their last Farm visit.
Capstone Trip
Capstone your year with a final visit to the farm featuring a float down our beautiful river and a farm-to-table lunch at our farm, where your students will come to a place that now feels like home to celebrate all that they have learned this year; reflect on their experiences; and set goals for their futures as young land stewards.
Option 2
Option 2 is a truly layered partnership between your institution and our Family Farm meant to strategically and lovingly develop, & exercises, skills and abilities that will not only make your students better farmers, but also more determined, responsible, and capable: future, Planners & Doers ...
Here is an example of what that road looks like...
Action Plan
Come! get to know us; learn our family history; see the ways we have & continue to sustain ourselves from this land; begin to ask questions; but even more important, SEE! You don’t know what you don’t know, and sometimes it’s hard to formulate questions, or even know what you WANT to know if our world of homesteading is completely new to you. So let this first tour open your students’ eyes & minds to the possibilities of land stewardship; let it be a seed planted, a seed that we can help them sprout & nurture in follow up visits.
Why
A
Farm Tour!?
The first thing that any school group should come and experience is our farm tour!
So, Ask us about follow up visits, workshops, on-campus projects, and how we can build a relationship between our family and your students that will span the course of the school year or beyond; immersing them slowly into the rewards & responsibilities of living from and stewarding the land.
What might an extended interactive relationship look like between a school and Us?...
Stewardship Intensive...
Have us out to your campus for an initial visit, so that we can tell your classes what we do, learn what they might be learning, and answer any preliminary questions they might have. It helps for them to become familiar with us so that they are excited to come see us. AND it helps us as we work to connect the dots and value of our way of living, to their life and what they are learning in school.
School Visit
As we described above, this is their first physical step into the world we live and work in and is a great place to gain “food for thought” & begin to envision their own, on campus project, in a tangible way.
Farm Tour
Begin to plan, with your students’ input, what project they would like to work on, on their campus. At this point they’ve heard some ideas, seen the farm, and now they are starting to develop their questions, & their visions.
The Plan
Breaking ground, starting seeds, & follow up: if an onsite project is what you are pursuing then together we will mark a plan of the different hands-on learning sessions, and check in's it will take to implement your project.
Harvesting Workshop
As your on-campus project gets closer to harvest; now is a perfect time for your students to come back to the farm for a harvesting workshop, helping your students to build the confidence they need to confidently harvest when back on campus.
Learning
Allergies
In cases where Lunch or Snack is provided please let us know of your groups food allergies and/or dietary needs, if any
Protection
Sun Screen & hats are encouraged. if your child is especially sensitive to sun, bringing a loose fitting button-up shirt to wear over their t-shirt during moments we are in the sun may be helpful.
Footwear
We are a farm, so their is always a possibility of mud. We recommend, rain boots, or old gym-shoes that are safe to get wet, dirty or dusty.
To Go
We can send an order form ahead of time so that if parents or the institution would like to experience our farm goods first hands, we can send those orders back with your students at the end of your visit..
"Come Spend a Day With us!"
Info
Booking
Message us Via What's app with questions or to book your next tour!
(829) 844-3155
Pricing
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Full Farm Tour: Adults & Students $40 USD or $2,000 RDP (per person)
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Workshops: Students $20 USD or $1,000 RDP (per Student)
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50% Deposit is required at the time of booking, balance due the day of tour
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Deposits are non-refundable, however reservations can be moved to another date in case of an emergency.
Days
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We are available Mon-Sat
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Sundays are also available at $2.500/$1,500 pesos per person
Group Size
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Max Group size is suggested at 20-35 students
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If a larger number of participants is desired we can design a, multi day, split-day, or rotating-station schedule to accommodate your group's needs
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We recommend breaking your visit up into smaller groups so that each student has more access to engage & immerse. We are happy to accommodate the same workshop over a number of days to reach multiple grade levels or large numbers of students..
Timeframe
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Arrival time is generally between 9AM-11AM
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Later or earlier arrival times are available upon request
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Workshops are generally a half-day
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For large groups please confirm your booking at least 2 weeks in advance to secure your spot
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Last minute bookings are, at times, available
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Any changes in the appointment need to be communicated 5 days in advance.
