2024 Farm School
We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity for 10 Week Sessions for learners ages 5-12 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am-2pm!
Farmer Sarah has been dreaming of creating a course like this steeped in old-fashioned skills and bringing simpler times to life!
Students will bring sack lunches to enjoy on the farm, and a healthy snack will be provided or made by the group during the day. We cannot accommodate food allergies except for peanut allergies.
In our new extended format, students will have plenty of time outdoors, with free play, structured hands-on activities, rotating chores performed in chore groups, nature journaling, hiking in the woods, as well as living history experiences straight from quality read alouds.
Our 6-week courses still offer the great content about the farm for those interested in a shorter format. These courses will be offered Wednesdays from 3-4:30pm.
Please note that dates, times, and subject matter may change at any time. More detailed information will be emailed before the sessions. Please make sure you provide your correct email address.
Farm School is non-refundable.
Students must be prepared for outdoor time with appropriate clothing, farm boots, and cold weather gear able to withstand hours outside during the colder months.
10-week Course 1: Winter; January-April
Focus: Little House in the Big Woods
Thursdays 10am-2pm...FILLED
Tuesdays 10am-2pm
Our new Farm School 10-week course uses Little House in the Big Woods as our focus text.
In this unit of study, we will return to the one-room-schoolhouse atmosphere and read Little House in the Big Woods together, then bring everything to life!
We will study the forests and predators of north Alabama, learn about food preservation with a special focus on smoking and curing meats, learn about butchering days long ago, cheesemaking, and life during each season in the book.
We will link history, science, language arts, and hands-on study in this incredible course!
Cost: $550 for the course; $50 off per sibling
Ages: 7-12
***If registering for the Winter Course, please note that the Thursday session is filled. The same material is being taught on Tuesdays. We still have a few spots open for Tuesdays.
When you register, please indicate on the registration form in the section marked "Is there anything you'd like me to know about your child" TUESDAY session.***
10-week Course 2: Spring; April-early June
Focus: The Secret Garden
Thursdays 10am-2pm
Students will become garden experts as they work together to explore the differences between raised bed gardening and traditional row crops.
As we read The Secret Garden together, we will build an amazing student garden, learn all about soil, compost, decomposers, natural pesticides, organic fertilizers, and so much more.
Students will also have their regular farm chores, ample free play, nature journaling, hiking, and building projects.
Cost: $550 for the course; $50 off per sibling
Ages: 7-12
6-week Spring Farm School; April-May
Focus: Meet the Farm
Wednesdays from 3-4:30pm
Students who are new to our program or who just want to experience our classic Farm School all over again are welcome to attend.
We will enjoy some free play, and lots of hands-on learning about our favorite farm friends…goats, sheep, farm fowl, bees, and pigs!
Our last class will be a canning class where we can our Jubilation Farms signature pickles!
Cost: $180 per student
Ages: 5+
10-week Course: Fall; September-November
Focus: Cabin on Trouble Creek
Thursdays 10am-2pm.
Our focus text centers around two young brothers who must tend to their nearly constructed homestead while their father travels back home to fetch their mother and younger siblings.
In this exciting course students will learn about fire safety, how to build fires, how to cook over an open fire, how to build shelters in the woods, basic knots, knife safety, as well as keeping journals, exploring the woods, and their usual farm chores.
Cost: $550 for the course; $50 off per sibling
Ages: 7-12
Thank you for your continued support of our educational programs for children of all ages and abilities!
Please note that Jubilation Farms is closed to the public in July and August. We will reopen again in September when the weather has cooled down some and the animals are happier.