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Experience our small, family farm and discover great things!

Farm Days

Take Part in a Community Farm Day

Field Trips

Take a Tour

Farm Stays

Plan an Overnight Stay

The third Saturday of every month, High Hog Farm invites volunteers from our surrounding community to come, gather on the farm and lend a hand.

If you like being outdoors, meeting new and interesting neighbors, making new friends, and learning more about where your food comes from, all while lending a hand on the farm, come join in on the fun. No experience is required to volunteer – we will train you on everything you need to know. This is a great opportunity to work on the land, learn more about our programs, and help us grow food for our local community. Share some family-friendly fun with neighbors and friends, and be sure to stop by our farm stand before you leave for some fresh, seasonal goodies. These farm days are a great introduction to our farm and the kind of work we do to help create a more equitable, sustainable food system and the way food and farm can create spaces for belonging, as well as lead to wellness, happiness, and wholeness.

Farm Days are always unique but they each contain 3 main components, come for one or stay for all:

Farm Fit

Come early, move at your own pace and get your muscles warm and body moving.

GroundWork

Learn sustainable agricultural practices and introduce volunteers to our program areas and mission, including food access, healthy food production, and ancestral agrarian practices.

Lunch on the Lawn

Bring a bag lunch, a water bottle and appropriate clothing and stay afterward for a picnic style lunch (weather permitting).

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The Expectations

Free! Register in Advance.

Donations are welcome. Your donation offsets the cost of materials and equipment for the project.

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Come on time! We start promptly at 8am

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Dress for the weather! Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. Appropriate footwear is a must – no sandals or open-toed shoes

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Bring a water bottle and/or snack, and a bag lunch if you’re staying for Lunch on the Lawn

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Supervised children are welcome – youth under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult

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No dogs or pets, please (certified service dogs are the exception with advance notice)

Sign Up - 2020 Dates
April 18th
May 16th
June 20th
July 18th
August 15th
September 19th

Fun & Learning – Naturally

Scheduling a field trip to the farm is a great way to explore the spaces between food, fiber, culture, and community and have loads of fun in the process. Bring your family and friends, meet the farmers, tour the farm and engage in hands-on activities that let you experience even more.​

Select Your Experience

Pre-K - 5th

Learn about the origins of healthy, local foods. Visit various stations around the farm and customize your experience.

MS, HS & Adults

Learn about different regenerative growing and production techniques used on the farm. Customize your learning tract to meet your specific educational needs.

Groups & Teams (25+)

Bring the team out of the office and learn about different regenerative growing and production techniques used on the farm. Join us in hands on projects and cooperative team building.

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Youth are introduced to the different areas of the farm to help them make the connection that fresh food comes from the earth through hands-on, farm-based learning.

familiarize students with herbs and vegetables that grow locally, ones that they may recognize or be familiar with already so that they will be more likely to eat those healthy foods when they see them in the cafeteria or at home.

The Fun: Visit various stations around the farm:

  • get your hands in the dirt, planting seeds and take home a plant you can watch grow.
  • milk the goats (seasonal) collect eggs from the chickens, meet the sheep and groom Sir Hercules, HHF’s head horse
  • Be entertained with improv games or storytelling
  • and select from one of 3 other unique add-on experiences.

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Visitors are given an in-depth, interactive introduction to the farm’s evolving ecosystem. As an intro to agroecology, learn about various regenerative farming techniques and practices. Discover things that you can do in your own yard, garden, or kitchen.

The Fun:

Start with a short tour of the barn to meet the animals and stroll through the gardens to see what’s in season.

Next customize your encounter. Choose from any of the following focus areas, or contact us to request your own:

  • composting, water catchment, permaculture 101, soils 101, ethnobotany, animal husbandry, and more
  • Be entertained with trivia games or
  • storytelling

Select from one of 3 other unique add-on experiences.

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Here’s a chance for your professional group to take a break from the office and spend a day on the farm. Teams are given an in-depth, interactive, introduction to the farm’s evolving ecosystem.

The Fun:

Start with a short tour of the barn to meet the animals and stroll through the gardens to see what’s in season.

Next customize your encounter. Choose from any of the following focus areas, or contact us to request your own:

  • composting, water catchment, permaculture 101, soils 101, ethnobotany, animal husbandry, and more
  • Be entertained with trivia games or
  • storytelling

Select from one of 3 other unique add-on experiences.

Tailor Your Experience

All field trips come with 2 of the following options:

Scavenger Egg Hunt

Friend or Foe? Bugging Out Bug Show

"Pigcasso" Art Station

Blacksmith Demo

Soapmaking Demo

Sheep to Shawl Demo

Book Your Field Trip!

Be our guest and experience both the fun and excitement, as well as the restorative rest that the farm can provide.

All guest accommodations are currently canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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