Farm Days
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.
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).
The Expectations
Free! Register in Advance.
Donations are welcome. Your donation offsets the cost of materials and equipment for the project.
Come on time! We start promptly at 8am
Dress for the weather! Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. Appropriate footwear is a must – no sandals or open-toed shoes
Bring a water bottle and/or snack, and a bag lunch if you’re staying for Lunch on the Lawn
Supervised children are welcome – youth under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult
No dogs or pets, please (certified service dogs are the exception with advance notice)
Field Trips
Take a Tour or a Class
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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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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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!
Farm Stays
We love hosting visitors from neighbors next door to guests from all around the world
Be our guest and experience both the fun and excitement, as well as the restorative rest that the farm can provide.