Children's Farmyard

Open May 8-October 17, 2010, 10 am–4 pm 

Enjoy a clean, safe, friendly and informative experience of agriculture and nature with your family. Scheduled activities focus on caring for typical farm animals, and trained educators and volunteers are on-hand to answer questions. In the south wing of the Farm Barn, the Farmyard is easily reached along the Walking Trails, or you may take a wagon ride from the Welcome Center (every half hour). The Farmyard opened in 1991.

A Partial List of Scheduled Activities

• Milk a cow (11 am & 2 pm daily) video!
• Collect eggs
• Brush the horses and donkey
  
• Pet and brush a rabbit
• Milk a goat. video!
• Card and spin wool
• Self-guided activities (scavenger hunt, crafts)
• Chores with the public in the late afternoon

• Brown Swiss Milk cow
• Brown Swiss calves
• Goats and kids
• Sheep and lambs
• Pigs and piglets
• Several breeds of rabbits
• Polish Crested hens and Bantams, laying hens and roosters, meat birds
• Turkeys
• Miniature Sicilian Donkeys
• Belgian draft horse