Take your students on an adventure to Gritt’s Farm this fall!
Bookings for school trips are reserved on a first-come first-served basis. You may book your field trip at any time, but note that the system “locks” 5 days prior to the desired date for staffing needs. We can host up to 250 students per day this year. If you have a group larger than 50 students, we suggest booking early to ensure the entire group will get to visit on the same day.
Trips may be scheduled as early as 8:30am on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. We are closed to the public Mondays & Wednesdays and open to the public Friday evenings - Sundays.
2021 Field Trip Pricing:
- Fun Farm Field Trip Student Admission = $9 per student
-Teacher/Chaperone/Parent/Sibling Admission = $9 per person
- Pre-K & Kindergarten Groups = 2 Free Teacher Admissions per 20 students
- First Grade Groups & Older = 1 Free Teacher Admission per 20 students
- Children Ages 2 & Under = Free Admission
Schools are responsible for paying for their group of students & teachers upon arrival at the farm. Parents must pay a $9 General Admission Fee prior to arrival. Purchase a School Trip Parent/Family Member Ticket Here.- please be sure to share the ticketing website with parents!
You must read our Fun Farm Group Rules & Regulations below before booking your school trip!
How To Book - It’s Easy!
1. Click “Reserve My School’s Trip” below. All school trip reservations must be made on that page!
2. You’ll see a calendar of events. Navigate to your desired date in September or October to check availability.
3. Click on your desired arrival time & answer a few quick questions- ALL time slots are set to increments of 50 students. If your group has more than 50 students, you must make MULTIPLE reservations for the same day. Example: A group of 150 students would make (3) reservations for the same day; A group of 60 students would make (2) reservations for the same day. Even if your group is larger than 50 students & multiple reservations are made, your entire group will be accommodated at the same entry time!
See? Easy as Pie. Pumpkin Pie, that is.
If you have any questions, please email events@grittsfarm.com.
Bookings for school trips are reserved on a first-come first-served basis. You may book your field trip at any time, but note that the system “locks” 5 days prior to the desired date for staffing needs. We can host up to 250 students per day this year. If you have a group larger than 50 students, we suggest booking early to ensure the entire group will get to visit on the same day.
Trips may be scheduled as early as 8:30am on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. We are closed to the public Mondays & Wednesdays and open to the public Friday evenings - Sundays.
2021 Field Trip Pricing:
- Fun Farm Field Trip Student Admission = $9 per student
-Teacher/Chaperone/Parent/Sibling Admission = $9 per person
- Pre-K & Kindergarten Groups = 2 Free Teacher Admissions per 20 students
- First Grade Groups & Older = 1 Free Teacher Admission per 20 students
- Children Ages 2 & Under = Free Admission
Schools are responsible for paying for their group of students & teachers upon arrival at the farm. Parents must pay a $9 General Admission Fee prior to arrival. Purchase a School Trip Parent/Family Member Ticket Here.- please be sure to share the ticketing website with parents!
You must read our Fun Farm Group Rules & Regulations below before booking your school trip!
How To Book - It’s Easy!
1. Click “Reserve My School’s Trip” below. All school trip reservations must be made on that page!
2. You’ll see a calendar of events. Navigate to your desired date in September or October to check availability.
3. Click on your desired arrival time & answer a few quick questions- ALL time slots are set to increments of 50 students. If your group has more than 50 students, you must make MULTIPLE reservations for the same day. Example: A group of 150 students would make (3) reservations for the same day; A group of 60 students would make (2) reservations for the same day. Even if your group is larger than 50 students & multiple reservations are made, your entire group will be accommodated at the same entry time!
See? Easy as Pie. Pumpkin Pie, that is.
If you have any questions, please email events@grittsfarm.com.
Fun Farm Group Rules & Regulations
Enrollment
Payment in full is expected for all participants registered for the field trip. Down payments are not required. Please inform us at least one week before your scheduled tour if there are any additional students or adults coming.
Teachers & Chaperones
We offer free admission for 2 Teachers or Chaperones per 20 children for Pre-K & Kindergarten Groups and free admission for 1 Teacher or Chaperone per 20 children for First Grade Groups & Older. Any additional teachers or chaperones attending the Fun Farm will be charged $9 for the tour.
Payment & Tax Exempt Forms
Payment is required per head count on the date the school visits the farm at the beginning of the tour. Please have your payment and your tax exempt forms ready before exiting the bus at the farm. Payment can be made by cash, check, or credit/debit card. If you are paying by cash, please sort all bills in a single envelope so that we may quickly process your payment & start your tour. A Gritt’s Fun Farm Tour Guide will board your bus to discuss Fun Farm rules & regulations. Students may not exit the bus until the payment is collected & a Gritt’s Farm Tour Guide has communicated Fun Farm rules to your group.
Group Tours
Teachers are encouraged to divide students into groups of around 30 before arriving at the farm. Once the groups are divided and have exited the bus, they will each be assigned a tour guide and given wristbands. All groups must stay with their guide for safety purposes. Tour guides will communicate with one rockstar lead teacher or chaperone throughout the tour. Tour guides will communicate any student-pertinent information to the lead teacher/chaperone, and it is then the lead teacher/chaperone’s responsibility to relay that back to the students. Teachers and chaperones must stay with the group the entire time. To best monitor students, we ask that a teacher or chaperone be stationed at the front and back of their groups throughout the tour. At no point are teachers, chaperones, or students permitted to leave the tour and venture out on their own. Most tours are about 3 hours long, and we’ll be sure to cover as much ground as possible!
Arrival
All buses are to park in our designated bus parking lot. Children and teachers must stay on the bus until further instruction is given by a tour guide. The teacher who has the Fun Farm Field Trip payment should be ready to give it to a tour guide once the guide has boarded the bus. Fun Farm rules and regulations will be discussed with the students, then the real fun begins!
Teachers are encouraged to print off directions and give them to the bus driver on the day of the trip or prior to the trip, if desired. Please be sure to allow enough travel time to reach the farm for your scheduled appointment. Classes arriving late may miss out on activities. We suggest arriving about ten minutes early so that we may take care of the bookkeeping & to ensure that students receive the full benefit of their reserved time on the farm.
Please do NOT rely on GPS to get you to the farm, or you may end up on a gravel road! View recommended instructions to Gritt’s Farm here.
Behavior
Guests on our farm are expected to be on their best behavior. Teachers and chaperones are expected to handle any behavioral issues with students during field trips and not rely on tour guides. Tour guides are professionals in providing the best experience to your group and will not be expected to correct behavioral issues. There will be no refunds for groups asked to leave the farm due to behavioral issues.
Wagon Rides
Our wagon rides have a maximum safety capacity of 30 people. There are 2 wagons pulled together for a total of 60 participants pulled at one time. Although this ride is fun for everyone, students must be loaded first. Extra teachers and chaperones may be asked to wait on the wagon’s return if there is no additional room. This is important to ensure there is enough time for scheduled activities. Extra chaperones may not walk alongside the hay wagon or walk out to the fields. The wagon rides are approximately 15 minutes in duration.
Clothing
Our farm tours will take place in both greenhouses and outdoors. Students and teachers should wear comfortable clothing, and closed toe footwear is required. Be aware of weather conditions for the day. Because we are entering the fall season, we could experience 90°F to 50°F days with the potential rain or snow. Additional layers of easily removable clothes are suggested.
Weather
Teachers should not cancel due to rain. Tours will still resume during a light rain, and activities will shift more into the greenhouses, if needed. If severe weather persists with lightning, we will ask groups to return to their buses and wait out the storm. Efforts will be made to reschedule or reimburse tours depending on how far along the group got on the tour. Tours beyond the half-way point will most likely not be reimbursed.
Food and Beverage
School groups are required to bring student lunches. Teachers must schedule a specific lunch time with Gritt’s Farm upon booking reservations. Typically, lunch is around the half-way point of the tour after about 1 and a half hours, but can vary depending on specific needs of the students. We recommend lunches be packed in coolers on the bus. We ask that lunch stays on the bus until just before lunch. A tour guide will ask a teacher to get lunches together and pulled by wagon to a designated area 10-15 minutes before students are ready to take a lunch break. There will be concessions available for chaperones, bus drivers, parents, etc.
Parents are encouraged to pack a snack along with their child just in case the child needs a snack before or after lunch. Snacks should fit easily into the child’s pocket and not be messy (eg. granola bar). Concessions are available during lunch for purchase. Water containers are welcomed as long as they are easy for the guest to carry and have a secured lids (eg. Nalgene bottle).
Signing Out Students
Parents or gaurdians who will be signing their children out to stay an extended duration at our Fun Farm are to do so at the end of the scheduled tour. Schools are 100% responsible for students on the field trip until the end of their scheduled tour. No exceptions.
Photography
Guests are encouraged to take photos while on tour as long as it doesn’t interfere with the tour or tour guide instructions. We welcome posting any photos of our farm on Facebook or Instagram and tagging our accounts, @grittsfarm.
Enrollment
Payment in full is expected for all participants registered for the field trip. Down payments are not required. Please inform us at least one week before your scheduled tour if there are any additional students or adults coming.
Teachers & Chaperones
We offer free admission for 2 Teachers or Chaperones per 20 children for Pre-K & Kindergarten Groups and free admission for 1 Teacher or Chaperone per 20 children for First Grade Groups & Older. Any additional teachers or chaperones attending the Fun Farm will be charged $9 for the tour.
Payment & Tax Exempt Forms
Payment is required per head count on the date the school visits the farm at the beginning of the tour. Please have your payment and your tax exempt forms ready before exiting the bus at the farm. Payment can be made by cash, check, or credit/debit card. If you are paying by cash, please sort all bills in a single envelope so that we may quickly process your payment & start your tour. A Gritt’s Fun Farm Tour Guide will board your bus to discuss Fun Farm rules & regulations. Students may not exit the bus until the payment is collected & a Gritt’s Farm Tour Guide has communicated Fun Farm rules to your group.
Group Tours
Teachers are encouraged to divide students into groups of around 30 before arriving at the farm. Once the groups are divided and have exited the bus, they will each be assigned a tour guide and given wristbands. All groups must stay with their guide for safety purposes. Tour guides will communicate with one rockstar lead teacher or chaperone throughout the tour. Tour guides will communicate any student-pertinent information to the lead teacher/chaperone, and it is then the lead teacher/chaperone’s responsibility to relay that back to the students. Teachers and chaperones must stay with the group the entire time. To best monitor students, we ask that a teacher or chaperone be stationed at the front and back of their groups throughout the tour. At no point are teachers, chaperones, or students permitted to leave the tour and venture out on their own. Most tours are about 3 hours long, and we’ll be sure to cover as much ground as possible!
Arrival
All buses are to park in our designated bus parking lot. Children and teachers must stay on the bus until further instruction is given by a tour guide. The teacher who has the Fun Farm Field Trip payment should be ready to give it to a tour guide once the guide has boarded the bus. Fun Farm rules and regulations will be discussed with the students, then the real fun begins!
Teachers are encouraged to print off directions and give them to the bus driver on the day of the trip or prior to the trip, if desired. Please be sure to allow enough travel time to reach the farm for your scheduled appointment. Classes arriving late may miss out on activities. We suggest arriving about ten minutes early so that we may take care of the bookkeeping & to ensure that students receive the full benefit of their reserved time on the farm.
Please do NOT rely on GPS to get you to the farm, or you may end up on a gravel road! View recommended instructions to Gritt’s Farm here.
Behavior
Guests on our farm are expected to be on their best behavior. Teachers and chaperones are expected to handle any behavioral issues with students during field trips and not rely on tour guides. Tour guides are professionals in providing the best experience to your group and will not be expected to correct behavioral issues. There will be no refunds for groups asked to leave the farm due to behavioral issues.
Wagon Rides
Our wagon rides have a maximum safety capacity of 30 people. There are 2 wagons pulled together for a total of 60 participants pulled at one time. Although this ride is fun for everyone, students must be loaded first. Extra teachers and chaperones may be asked to wait on the wagon’s return if there is no additional room. This is important to ensure there is enough time for scheduled activities. Extra chaperones may not walk alongside the hay wagon or walk out to the fields. The wagon rides are approximately 15 minutes in duration.
Clothing
Our farm tours will take place in both greenhouses and outdoors. Students and teachers should wear comfortable clothing, and closed toe footwear is required. Be aware of weather conditions for the day. Because we are entering the fall season, we could experience 90°F to 50°F days with the potential rain or snow. Additional layers of easily removable clothes are suggested.
Weather
Teachers should not cancel due to rain. Tours will still resume during a light rain, and activities will shift more into the greenhouses, if needed. If severe weather persists with lightning, we will ask groups to return to their buses and wait out the storm. Efforts will be made to reschedule or reimburse tours depending on how far along the group got on the tour. Tours beyond the half-way point will most likely not be reimbursed.
Food and Beverage
School groups are required to bring student lunches. Teachers must schedule a specific lunch time with Gritt’s Farm upon booking reservations. Typically, lunch is around the half-way point of the tour after about 1 and a half hours, but can vary depending on specific needs of the students. We recommend lunches be packed in coolers on the bus. We ask that lunch stays on the bus until just before lunch. A tour guide will ask a teacher to get lunches together and pulled by wagon to a designated area 10-15 minutes before students are ready to take a lunch break. There will be concessions available for chaperones, bus drivers, parents, etc.
Parents are encouraged to pack a snack along with their child just in case the child needs a snack before or after lunch. Snacks should fit easily into the child’s pocket and not be messy (eg. granola bar). Concessions are available during lunch for purchase. Water containers are welcomed as long as they are easy for the guest to carry and have a secured lids (eg. Nalgene bottle).
Signing Out Students
Parents or gaurdians who will be signing their children out to stay an extended duration at our Fun Farm are to do so at the end of the scheduled tour. Schools are 100% responsible for students on the field trip until the end of their scheduled tour. No exceptions.
Photography
Guests are encouraged to take photos while on tour as long as it doesn’t interfere with the tour or tour guide instructions. We welcome posting any photos of our farm on Facebook or Instagram and tagging our accounts, @grittsfarm.