Educational Field Trips

DUFFIELD’S FARM… WHERE Fun is always in session!

Come and join us at Duffield’s Farm for your next educational field trip. Our sessions are year round and centered for many different age groups. Below you will find a brief description of our yearly activities and the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards that are incorporated with each one! 

HAYRIDES TO THE EASTER BUNNY HOUSE!

$7.50 plus tax per student $3.75 plus tax per adult

Your students can board the hayride wagons at the farm market and ride to "Bunny Egg-res". There they can each pick Easter eggs, and then walk to the bunny house and trade them for a chocolate treat. Then, they can visit with the bunny and have a snack in the garden out back. Every field trip includes a visit to our educational "Learning Barn", a building filled with hands-on activities that are farm related. Also, the boys and girls can visit our farm animals and play on the hay bales and slides!

This program incorporates the following NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards:

4.9, 4.14, 5.3, 5.4, 6.4, 6.5

$7.50 plus tax per student $3.75 plus tax per adult

"Many Hats The Farmer Wears"

This trip is recommended for 2nd and 3rd Grade Students!

Your students can participate in an interactive skit and experience that many jobs that farmers have besides farming. Then, each student can plant seeds to take back to school and watch them grow!

This program incorporates the following NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards:

1.2, 4.5, 4.9, 4.14, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 6.4, 6.5

Nursery School thru 1^st Grades

HUNGRY HAIRY CATERPILLAR

The Very Hungry Caterpillar story comes alive in our Learning Barn and each child can make a "Hairy Caterpillar" to take back to school and watch grow on the window sill!

4.5, 4.9, 4.14, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 6.4, 6.5

NEW for 2010

FARMER GROWS A RAINBOW

This program can be adapted for pre-K through 5th grade!

Farmer Grows a Rainbow is a program that helps students develop awareness that farmers provide the variety and abundance of food we need to maintain healthy lifestyles.

STRAWBERRY PICKING

$7.50 plus tax per student $3.75 plus tax per adult (strawberries not included)

This trip is great for any age group! Take a hayride out to the strawberry field and pick a fresh quart of berries right off the vine! Each child will get a coloring book. Your students are always encouraged to visit the "Learning Barn" and see the animals!

4.5, 4.9, 4.14, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 6.4, 6.5

SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER

$7.50 plus tax per student $3.75 plus tax per adult

Take a hayride to the apple orchard to pick apples in September or take a hayride to the pumpkin patch to pick you favorite pumpkin in October! Try to find you way through our Corn Maze and don't forget to play on the giant hay bales.