SAMPLE AGENDA (subject to change)

ABC’s of Farm-based Education Workshop

Friday

8:00-8:30 Registration and coffee at the Education Center

8:30-9:00 Welcome and entrance activities (Starting From Scratch)

9:30-10:30 Participant introductions—introduce yourself and your farm or program!

10:30 Garden activities (Dress up a Tomato, Tomato Planet)

11:00-12:30 Travel to Market Garden (via bus) to meet Gardener Josh Carter!

Garden activities: Fabulous Five, Compost Cake, Mix It Up: Make Potting Soil

12:30-1:15 Travel back to Education Center for Lunch

1:15-2:15 Harvest activities (Harvest Blanket, Wonderful Wheat, Grocery Bag Botany)

2:15-3:45 Designing Farm-based Learning Experiences

3:45-4:15 Harvest Activities

4:15-5:15 Make and Takes (Bread, Good Bread, Wiggle Worms, Felting Fun, and more!)

5:15 Short reflection

6:15-7:30 Dinner at Orchard Cove House

7:30-8:00 Singing by the fire!

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Saturday

8:00-8:30 Arrival, coffee and explore time – Education Center

8:30 Welcome activities (Rocks to Cheese)

8:45-9:30 Strategies for Effective Learner Engagement discussion

9:30-10:15 On-farm Safety

10:15-10:45 Lambing activity (K.I.M.’s (Keep In Mind) Game)

11:00-11:45 Visit the Farmyard for chicken activities (Chicken Parade, Chicken Grab Bag)

11:45 Sun to Cheese at Shelburne Farms

12:15-12:45 Lunch in Ed Center

1:00-3:00 Visit the Dairy, meet Dairy Manager Sam Dixon and engage in cow and sheep related activities (Dress Up a Cow, Sheep Observation/Ethnogram)

3:15-4:15 Open Space Discussion

4:15-6:00 Farm Tour, free time, resource hunting, conversations, networking, etc!

6:00 Dinner at Orchard Cove House

7:30 Evening visitor surprise!

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Sunday

8:30-9:00 Arrival, coffee and explore time – Education Center

9:00 Welcome and Check-in

9:15-10:30 Problem-solving Microlabs protocol

10:30-Noon Sugaring and Forest Discovery Walk (Tree Life Cycle Cards, Meet a Tree, Tap a Tree, Camouflage Critters, Handful of Sounds)

Noon-1:00pm Lunch in Education Center

1:00-2:00pm Tasty activities (Posy Poetry, Butter Making)

2:00-3:00 Closing activities and Evaluations

Facilitators

Susie Marchand, Agricultural Education Coordinator
(802)985-0326

Rachel Cadwallader-Staub, Children’s Farmyard Manager & Farm-based Educator
(802)985-0344

Vera Simon-Nobes, Farm-based Education Network Coordinator

(802)985-0382

1611 Harbor Road • Shelburne, Vermont • 05482 • 802-985-8686 • www.shelburnefarms.org