Book your Spring 2017 & Fall 2017 School Tours Now!
Vollmer Farm, located about 30 minutes from the Triangle, is a genuine, 5th generation working family farm. As a leader in NC organic agriculture, we offer FANTASTIC school field trip experiences that meet the needs of both students and teachers.
2017 SPRING TOURS information Our Spring tour theme is "Local Organic Farming". This is a FUN hands-on, REAL agriculture & science education experience in strawberry & blueberry fields, vegetable fields and a tomato greenhouse. Students will learn about plant stages, growing life cycles and so much more. Depending on date of tour, each participant will learn to harvest ripe fruit from the strawberry plant or blueberry bush. All participants will be able to experience what it's like to pick-your-own organic fruit and take it home. 2017 FALL TOURS information Back by popular demand for the Fall tours is our Cow & Butter Making Tour. We have new talent on our staff working with us to make our tours even more terrific than before! It's going to be a great year to bring your group to Vollmer Farm! Cow & Butter Making Tour: You will enjoy visiting with our calf, named Cudzoo, while learning about NC dairy farming, hand-on practicing "milking" Bessie (our make believe heifer), dressing a cow and making your own snack by churning fresh butter and eating it on crackers! Also, learn about NC agriculture and plant science concepts. Included is a hay ride around our REAL farm and pumpkin patch and each person gets to pick a Pie Pumpkin from the field to take home! Both Fall and Spring tours include: Common Core curriculum-based agricultural education programs • pre & post tour materials for students & teachers, including YouTube educational channel videos• hayride • FULL access to our Back 40 Country playground which includes: • Great Pumpkin Jump (huge jumping pillow) • Windmill Mountain—an 100-ft. Underground Slide • Corn Box (100+ bushels of corn to play in… better than any sandbox you’ve ever seen!) • Rat Racers • 2 large playground areas • Tot Rocket Zipline • Beehive Observatory Picnic tables • Peaceful, farm setting with open rolling hills • Take home Letter to Parents and activity sheet for students to reinforce what they learned at Vollmer Farm. Note: Fall tours also include our farm animal barn! Our tours provide an up-close, real farm experience that enables learning and creates a lasting impression on young children. We are excited to partner with you, as we educate about local food, farms, and fun! Typical schedule (note that this varies based on size of groups & number of groups per day):
A beautiful, open farm with space among all of our play attractions provides a high level of safety and security that our teachers have told us they appreciate. Our acreage is big enough to spread each group out for lunch and play time; to provide your class as much open space as possible while experiencing fun at Vollmer Farm. Quick links for teachers to make YOUR life easier!! . . . |
Farmer Russ welcoming a group to Vollmer Farm!
Target ages/grades include Pre-K and Kindergarten through 3rd grade, but please just call us if you want to accommodate an older group.
All Tour Rates: $12.81 (includes 6.75% NC sales tax) per person for students and parent/chaperons. Note that ALL TEACHERS are FREE! Tour Dates: Fall 2017 Time options are 9am or 11am check in. Date options are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in October Spring 2017: Check-in times are 9:30am Call us if you need more flexibility. Date options are Wednesdays & Thursdays in late April, May and June. BOOKING your field trip / tour is simple....
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Please read what some Teachers have said about our Tours!
"Thank you so much for the awesome opportunity of allowing us to visit the farm. The children had such a wonderful time! I truly appreciate your kindness and patience as we scheduled this trip. I only heard absolutely wonderful things from the parents and teachers. Everything is so organized and those strawberries are excellent! Take care and I hope that you have a wonderful and prosperous year." - Khalilah Badger, Fuller Elementary
"Good Morning! I wanted to write and thank you and your staff for making our trip to Vollmer Farm soooooooo fun and enjoyable! Every person that we dealt with was kind and fun! Our classes loved making the butter! I think we will do that for our Thanksgiving Feast in our class!" -Evelyn Moses, Raleigh Christian Academy
"I just wanted to thank you all. The children, parents and I had a wonderful time at the farm on Tuesday. We will be back next year!" - Tammy Hartman, Chesterbrook Elementary
"Many thanks to you and your staff for another fun filled day at the farm. I had many parents and children who had never been to your farm and after our trip I think you may have some return visitors. God gave us a beautiful day and you helped us have lots of fun together. We hope to see you in the spring for Strawberries! Many thanks." - Lori Griffin, Faith Christian School
"Good Morning! I wanted to write and thank you and your staff for making our trip to Vollmer Farm soooooooo fun and enjoyable! Every person that we dealt with was kind and fun! Our classes loved making the butter! I think we will do that for our Thanksgiving Feast in our class!" -Evelyn Moses, Raleigh Christian Academy
"I just wanted to thank you all. The children, parents and I had a wonderful time at the farm on Tuesday. We will be back next year!" - Tammy Hartman, Chesterbrook Elementary
"Many thanks to you and your staff for another fun filled day at the farm. I had many parents and children who had never been to your farm and after our trip I think you may have some return visitors. God gave us a beautiful day and you helped us have lots of fun together. We hope to see you in the spring for Strawberries! Many thanks." - Lori Griffin, Faith Christian School
Teachers: we strive to maintain a special relationship with you and your students throughout the year. We love it when we hear that Vollmer Farm is a regular part of your classrooms!
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Teachers Only!
One way we maintain our relationship with teachers is through our Teachers-only e-newsletters that come out seasonally and when we have good farm education materials to send to you and your students. Simply fill out this quick form below and you will get all the Teacher-specific news from Vollmer Farm! Important Note: Most of our teachers also sign up for our our main farm e-newsletter for their own personal and family information. To also sign up for that e-newsletter, simply click here.
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Rock the Vollmer Farm YouTube Channel in your class!
We are also hoping to grow our involvement in your classroom curriclum through our YouTube Channel. There you will find many very interesting and educational videos- usually starring Farmer Russ Vollmer. These videos can be used to reinforce plant science and farming concepts you are already teaching or to extend learning both before and after your field trip to the Vollmer Farm. We love feedback from Teachers!
As always we want your feedback. Teacher input has already helped our tours improve over time; and we are always looking for ways to continually improve your Vollmer Farm experience. Please take a moment to complete our teacher survey, if you have already been on a farm field trip with your class or group. |
