Field trips for schools

UPDATE:  We are receiving reservations for the fall field trips and spring field trips for 2011.  Print off the Best of Breed form and mail it to the Critter Barn with your request.  See the link below for further information.  You are welcome to email the Critter Barn about your field trip request.

Want to know about a Critter Barn Field Trip? 
Check out our field trip video on YouTube.

We offer hands-on, educational field trips for children, aligned with State of Michigan Benchmarks. Students will  enjoy group presentations and experience interactive learning as they visit our farm stations in small groups.

Fall Field Trips – 
      September, October, & November
Spring Field Trips – 
      March, April, May & early June
Christmas Field Trips - 
       December


Visit the Information for Teachers page to learn more!

 

The Critter Barn introduces you to
Discovery Dairy in Alto Michigan 

A couple years ago, when I met with Kent County Farm Bureau board of directors, I met Annie Link.  Annie's enthusiasm for the agricultural education at the Critter Barn was obvious.  She visited our farm during Spring Fling and we met again at the State Farm Bureau Convention last fall. 

Annie is a member of the Oesch family who run the  Swisslane Dairy, a 4th Generation dairy farm.  Annie hosts Field Trips and Public events too! 

We love to teach about the dairy industry at the Critter Barn, we have baby calves and photographs of a real production farm.  We milk dairy goats so kids can begin to understand the world's milk and dairy supply. 

But at Discovery Dairy, you can see and visit the production farm, not too common now days.  We are happy to introduce our new friends in education, and hope you will visit Annie and her farm soon.  Check them out at this link:

 http://www.dairydiscovery.com/index.php

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