Time slots for school trips are reserved on a first-come first-served basis. You must complete and submit our form at least 2 weeks before the date of your reservation, but the sooner your book, the better. Payment and tax exempt forms must be collected before the trip begins.
Trips may be scheduled as early as 8:30am any day of the week except Wednesday. Tuesdays are reserved for schools and organizations only.
$8 per student / chaperone
$2 per pumpkin pie or pumpkin picking
1 chaperone per 20 students is admitted for free. Parents paying separately must pay the standard admission price of $10
You must read our Fun Farm Group Rules & Regulations below before submitting a trip request.
Trips may be scheduled as early as 8:30am any day of the week except Wednesday. Tuesdays are reserved for schools and organizations only.
$8 per student / chaperone
$2 per pumpkin pie or pumpkin picking
1 chaperone per 20 students is admitted for free. Parents paying separately must pay the standard admission price of $10
You must read our Fun Farm Group Rules & Regulations below before submitting a trip request.
Fun Farm Group Rules & Regulations
Enrollment
Payment in full is expected for all participants registered for the program. Please inform us at least one week before your scheduled tour if there are any additional students or adults coming.
Chaperones
We allow a maximum of 1 adult to 20 children for the Fun Farm for free. Any additional chaperones attending the Fun Farm Tour will be charged 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 collect all the cash in one envelope and sort the bills, so we can quickly process your payment. Students may not exit the bus until payment is collected, and then the tour may begin.
Group Tours
Teachers are encouraged to split their students into groups of about 30 before arriving at the farm. Once the groups are divided and off the bus, they will each be assigned a tour guide and given wristbands. For safety reasons, groups must stay with their guide. Our tour guide will communicate with one rock-star lead teacher or chaperone throughout the duration of the tour. Any communication needed to get the students attention will be done through communicating with the teacher, and then the teacher is to communicate with the children. Teachers and chaperones are to stay with the group the entire time. To best monitor the students, we ask a teacher or chaperone is organized 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 on their own. Most tours are about 3 hours long.
Arrival
All buses are to park in our bus parking. School groups will then be greeted by one of our farm hosts and escorted to our Welcome Center where tours will begin. Children and teachers must stay on the bus until further instructed by a tour guide. The teacher who has payment is to be ready and waiting for our tour guides to approach the bus.
Teachers are encouraged to print off directions and give them to the bus driver on the day of the trip. 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 we can take care of the bookkeeping and so your class can get the full benefit of their reserved time on the farm.
Behavior
Guests on our farm are expected to be on their best behavior. Teachers and chaperones of school tours are expected to handle any issues with their students while at our farm. Our tour guides are here to do a job and their job is not to correct or keep groups behaving. 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 and does not stop to let guest off at the big maze
Clothing
Our farm tours will take place in both greenhouses and outdoors. Students and teachers should wear old 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 run during a light rain, and activities will shift more into the greenhouses. 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 their students lunch. 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 these lunches are 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 their students on the field trip until the end of their scheduled tour. No exceptions will be made.
Photography
Guests are encouraged to take photos while on tour as long as it doesn’t interfere with the tour or tour guides instructions. We welcome posting any photos of our farm to our Facebook or Instagram accounts.
Enrollment
Payment in full is expected for all participants registered for the program. Please inform us at least one week before your scheduled tour if there are any additional students or adults coming.
Chaperones
We allow a maximum of 1 adult to 20 children for the Fun Farm for free. Any additional chaperones attending the Fun Farm Tour will be charged 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 collect all the cash in one envelope and sort the bills, so we can quickly process your payment. Students may not exit the bus until payment is collected, and then the tour may begin.
Group Tours
Teachers are encouraged to split their students into groups of about 30 before arriving at the farm. Once the groups are divided and off the bus, they will each be assigned a tour guide and given wristbands. For safety reasons, groups must stay with their guide. Our tour guide will communicate with one rock-star lead teacher or chaperone throughout the duration of the tour. Any communication needed to get the students attention will be done through communicating with the teacher, and then the teacher is to communicate with the children. Teachers and chaperones are to stay with the group the entire time. To best monitor the students, we ask a teacher or chaperone is organized 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 on their own. Most tours are about 3 hours long.
Arrival
All buses are to park in our bus parking. School groups will then be greeted by one of our farm hosts and escorted to our Welcome Center where tours will begin. Children and teachers must stay on the bus until further instructed by a tour guide. The teacher who has payment is to be ready and waiting for our tour guides to approach the bus.
Teachers are encouraged to print off directions and give them to the bus driver on the day of the trip. 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 we can take care of the bookkeeping and so your class can get the full benefit of their reserved time on the farm.
Behavior
Guests on our farm are expected to be on their best behavior. Teachers and chaperones of school tours are expected to handle any issues with their students while at our farm. Our tour guides are here to do a job and their job is not to correct or keep groups behaving. 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 and does not stop to let guest off at the big maze
Clothing
Our farm tours will take place in both greenhouses and outdoors. Students and teachers should wear old 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 run during a light rain, and activities will shift more into the greenhouses. 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 their students lunch. 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 these lunches are 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 their students on the field trip until the end of their scheduled tour. No exceptions will be made.
Photography
Guests are encouraged to take photos while on tour as long as it doesn’t interfere with the tour or tour guides instructions. We welcome posting any photos of our farm to our Facebook or Instagram accounts.