New Pond Farm

Program Type: 
Academic Classrooms, Kitchen Classrooms, Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Adults/Professionals, College/University, High School, Middle School, Upper Elementary, Lower Elementary, Kindergarten
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
10,000
Year Founded: 
1985
About the Program: 

 Each year, using our outstanding outdoor classrooms, we bring students of all ages outside and offer hands-on environmental programs that focus on our habitats with their diverse flora and fauna. When people appreciate and understand the world around them, they become better stewards of their environment.

Our Shared Harvest and gardening programs directly connect participants with the land, its cycles and its bounty. Garden program participants learn how to establish, tend and harvest vegetable and herb gardens in their own backyard. Shared Harvest members are invited to work in our gardens and then share in the bounty throughout the growing season.

Our educational farm programs provide an important introduction to the key role farms play in our lives. Depending on their level, students meet and often work with our cows, sheep and chickens-learning their importance on the farm. Products from our farm animals such as milk and yogurt may be purchased in our