School Tours

We offer a fun and educational experience for children and teachers.

Our tour takes about 1½ hours and includes:

• a tractor ride to the orchard to pick apples and to the pumpkin patch to hunt gourds
• farmyard animals to feed
• throwing apples to the elk
• experiencing the one-room schoolhouse
• watching apples be sorted & bagged in the apple grader room
• visiting the country store

Rainy day tours are just as fun when we hide gourds in the barn, bin-pick for apples and experience apple tasting in the schoolhouse.

There is a 15-person minimum for tours. (Smaller groups are welcome to come out on their own and pay regular admission.) The cost is $4.00/person; one adult at no charge.

Tours are held only Monday through Friday and begin at 9:30am, 11:15am, 1pm and 4pm. We have picnic tables if you want to bring sack lunches, and a large lawn to play on after lunch.

We recommend that you call us to make your tour reservation. Time slots fill up fast, so calling is more likely to secure your chosen slot.

When you call, it will be helpful if you have the following information ready:

• date and time (see list above) you would like to visit
• how many children are coming
• how many adults will be with them
• age of the children
• any children with special needs?
• phone numbers at which to reach you in both daytime and evening (we are often away from the phone during the daytime).

Of course, you are also welcome to email the above information to us, but please understand that--in this case--email is not the most efficient.

We accept cash, check, MasterCard, Visa and Discover. We also accept purchase orders for tour groups.

Teachers: The Iowa Farm Bureau provides grants up to $200 for field trips and other educational needs. Get more information here or by calling 515-225-5425.

 

Teacher information for groups already scheduled.

 

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