Junior Farmhand
Thu, Mar 06
|Whispering Oaks Farm
A 6 week drop off program
Time & Location
Mar 06, 2025, 8:00 AM EST – Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT
Whispering Oaks Farm, 5330 Dana Rd, Fort Myers, FL 33905, USA
About the event
Junior Farmhand is a 6 week Drop-off Program that will challenge your child’s problem solving, critical thinking and team work skills. Children will begin each day with Farm Chores,Â
Topics / Tasks Covered:
- Farm Chores
- Animal Husbandry
- AG Projects
- Farm Science & Labs
- Livestock Conservation
- Nature Journaling
Curriculum Supported & includes ELA / Writing, Math, Science & History Elements.
This session will consist of 6 - 4 hour long classes, held weekly, on specified Fridays, from 8:00am - 12:00pm.Â
This is a drop-off class taught by Ms. Ashley & Ms. Carolina incorporating the following curriculum into our lessons and activities:Â
Exploring Agriscience, Farm Anatomy, Harbor & Sprout as well as multiple other supplements
Your class dates are:
3/6
3/13
3/27
4/10
4/17
4/24
Session 4: Herbology
Week One:Â Â Meet our Animals
Week Two:Â Starting an herb garden
Week Three:Â Cooking Herbs
Week Four:Â Medicinal Herbs
Week Five:Â Companion Planting with herbs
Week Six:Â Herbs for Livestock health
Children should bring a water bottle, change of clothes, and packed lunch to each class.
Parents are responsible for the full tuition, regardless if your child is able to attend every date in their Junior Farmhand session. Tickets are non-refundable.
Additional Information
What to wear
- Â Play clothes
- Â Closed Toed shoes
- Â Sunscreen / Bug Repellant
- Â Hat / Sunglasses
What not to wear
-  Anything you don’t want to get dirty
- Â Open toed shoes
- Â Clothing with tassels / frays/ hanging string etc.
Release of Liability Waiver: Â Required from all participants.
Inclement Weather: This is an outdoor class, and we do not have public indoor cover available. Florida weather can change rather quickly, so in the event weather prohibits our ability to complete our schedule activities, all reasonable attempts will be made to reschedule. Please plan accordingly.
Many of our animals free-range. This includes chickens, roosters, turkeys, ducks, farm cats & 2 livestock guardian dogs, all of which are used to visitors. We do have active Honey Bee Hives on our farm.
Parents are responsible for the full tuition, regardless if your child is able to attend every date in their Junior Farmhand session. Refunds will ONLY be issued if an emergency prevents participation in all 6 scheduled class days within a single session.
Class sizes are set to a minimum of 8 & a maximum of 25 students per session.
Tickets
Junior Farmhand Sibling
Only valid with purchase of 1 Regular priced ticket.
$200.00Junior Farmhand
$300.00
Total
$0.00