Potential lesson topics

Each season will contain about 8 classes from the topics below.

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• Introduction - tour around the farm, dangers and rules

• Pigs & Rabbits

• Cows, milk

• Chickens

• Foraging & Plant Identification in the garden and in the wild

• Bees & honey harvesting/ tasting

• Composting/ Soil/ Mushroom— microscopic life

• Fire Building & cooking

• Rock climbing/ Rappelling/ Zip Line/ Ninja course

• Exploration skills— reading nature, metal detector, map, compass, scavenger hunt

• Animals on the farm in winter

• Cheese & butter making

• Archery/ Hatchet throwing/ BB guns—target practice (hunting)

• Survival—what do wild animals do in the winter? Animal prints/ tracks/ forest exploration

• Soap making

• Candle making

• Plants in dormancy/ maple trees/ syrup tapping

• Forest exploration

• Building

• Baby rabbits

• Baby Calf

• Baby chicks

• Seeds & Planting Garden

• Frogs and tadpoles

• Water erosion/ creek/ aquatic habitats

• Fort building

• Night time class (star gazing—flashlight hike)

• Sorghum & harvesting