Educator Guided Fall Harvest Program

Registration for our 2025 Fall program will open in August

Our Educator Guided Fall Harvest Program for Kindergarten and First Grade students provides children with a fun and educational farming experience. Children will enjoy a hay wagon tour of the farm fields to see the growing crops and landmarks of a classic New England farm (weather-permitting). Depending on the grade-level of the students, we offer one of the following lessons:

Kindergarten Program

At the field classroom, our farm educator will teach what a plant needs to survive and how farmers grow their crops. Students in kindergarten will focus on the ways farmers work with the weather and seasons to grow food. Students will then harvest their own pumpkin from a real pumpkin field! After harvest, the students will return to their chaperones who will help bag the pumpkins before returning to the Harvest Yard.

First Grade Program

At the field classroom, our farm educator will teach what a plant needs to survive and how farmers grow their crops. First grade students will learn about the role of wildlife on a farm, and the ways in which animals may help or hinder a farm’s growing plants. Students will then harvest their own pumpkin. After harvest, the students will return to their chaperones who will help bag the pumpkins before returning to the Harvest Yard.

2025 Program

Dates Offered: Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from September 24 through October 29

Times Offered: 9:30 am or 11:00 am

Cost: please check back for updated 2025 pricing

Our program runs for one hour.

We recommend groups select a time that would allow them to make it to the farm 10 minutes earlier than their scheduled tour time, to allow room for unforeseen circumstances on the roads, as well as time for children to unload from the buses and use the restrooms, if needed, before the program. While we will do our best given the circumstances, if a school arrives late for their scheduled time, we cannot guarantee that we can offer the full hour-long program if it means impacting another school’s program.

We can accommodate up to 2 hayrides (of up to 45 people per hayride) at each time slot.

School Tour Guidelines

Please review our school tour policies regarding chaperones, cancellations, and payments, as well as answers many of our commonly asked questions.

Online Registration 

Please check back; we plan to post our online registration form in August 2025.

If you are interested in being notified when our registration forms are posted, please send an email to education@jonesfamilyfarms.com