Spring Youth Programs at Wright-Locke Farm

It may only be February vacation, but the unusually warm temperatures and melting snowbanks have us thinking about SPRING! Wright-Locke Farm still has plenty of spots available in our April Vacation, Spring After School, and Spring Preschool Programs for kids in preschool (ages 4 - 5) and grades K - 8.

The farm's Youth Education Programs offer children a unique, hands-on experience learning about farming and the natural world on a historic working farm in Winchester, MA. All of our programs include lessons and activities related to organic agriculture, the environment, or natural science while utilizing the fields, pastures, barns, and wooded trails as our living classroom. Specific subject focuses include soil, compost, worms, plants, Wright-Locke Farm’s domesticated animals (sheep, goats, chickens, honeybees), land conservation, farm history, select wildlife (plants, animals, insects, fungi), and more. Daily activities include visiting or caring for our farm animals, cooking healthy and seasonal dishes to try, tending our two youth gardens, and free choice time to partake in games, arts and crafts, and more.

Is your child a green thumb? Consider signing them up for our Spring Farm Club, hosted Saturdays from 10am - 12 noon April 8 - June 10. Led by Education Director Rebekah Carter, this program is entirely focused on hands-on youth garden tasks and other age-approriate tasks around our certified-organic farmstead. We’ll focus on youth garden bed preparation, planting seeds, transplanting young seedlings, early bed maintenance, and some foraging and harvesting of cultivated and wild plants growing around the farmstead. This is an organic fruit, vegetable, herb, and flower production-focused program but our chores may occasionally include light work helping maintain farm animal quarters. A great opportunity for kids who love to garden, help out with yard chores, and enjoy the outdoors no matter the season. This program is entirely outdoors, to be hosted (light) rain or shine, and will only be cancelled in the case of heavy rain or more severe weather (thunder, lightning, etc).

For more information on the farm, including its education programs, events, and volunteer opportunities, visit our website: www.WLFarm.org