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Summer Programs
Quiet Valley Summer

Quiet Valley is open to the general public for the summer season from the 3rd Saturday in June to Labor Day Monday. It is a special time when the farm is alive with the sounds and smells of the 1800s, providing a number of ways for you and your family to experience life on a humble Pennsylvania German farm. Check out our summer programs below and our Calendar for extra happenings!

Summer Farm Tour Admission:
Adults $10.00 , Children (3-12) $5.00 , Children Under 3 FREE!
Visa and MasterCardVISA and MasterCard accepted

Summer Farm Tour Discounts:
Senior Discounts (62 and older) $1.00 off; AAA Discounts $1.00 off
Group Tours -
Discount of $1.00 off each admission applies to a group of 20 or more,
with reservations booked at least one week in advance.
(Only 1 discount per customer)

Farm Tour Hours - 3rd Saturday in June through Labor Day:
Tuesday thru Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm , Sunday 12 noon - 5 pm
Closed Mondays except Labor Day

Check out our Calendar for special Tour dates during our off season!

Group or Bus Tours are available from Mid-March through October
with prior reservations!

Blue Star Museum

Quiet Valley is a Blue Star Museum and we offer free admission to all active duty, National Guard and Reserve military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day, May 27 through September 2, 2013.

Office Hours
Monday thru Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm
Phone: 570-992-6161 E-mail: farm@quietvalley.org

We have a covered Picnic Pavilion if you'd like to bring a picnic lunch and stay around awhile. Our Gift Shop has sodas, bottled water, popsicles, and small snacks but no substantial food.

The majority of our farm is wheelchair accessible. Please ask our Tour Guides if you have any special needs. For views of the farm, please click here.

No pets allowed due to interference with our animals.

Farm Tours:

Tours of the barn and house are offered all summer:

Summer at Quiet Valley is a special time when the farm is alive with the sounds and smells of the 1800s. Visitors to the farm are encouraged to speak with our costumed staff about what life was like 150 years ago. Children especially enjoy meeting our farm animals and discovering how a child's life would have been different if they had been born almost two centuries ago!

The farm is an example of life on a self-sufficient homestead . "Family" guides in period clothing share the daily routine of a typical Pennsylvania German family and its descendants who lived at this location from 1765 to 1913. There are fourteen buildings, including original and reconstructed, on the farm. Our guides take you back in time to relive and observe the activities typical of nineteenth century farm life. The barnyard animals are here to watch, listen and touch. Learn about the role animals played in the daily life of the farm.

Please allow approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours to see everything.

Download our Summer Vistor's Guides to get an idea
of our daily tour areas and schedules and a map of the farm:

Weekday Visitor Guide * Sunday Visitor Guide

Wagon Rides :

Join our sure-footed team of Clydesdale Draft Horses on a leisurely ride through the woods around Quiet Valley. This approximately 20 minute ride will take you from the farm to the pond where we harvest ice in the winter and back to the farm. So sit back and relax and listen to the sounds of the 19th century!

Wagon Rides are weather permitting only, and subject to the availability of the horses. Additional cost of $3.00 per person.

Clydesdale Wagon Rides

Summer Highlights:

Wednesdays are Quilting Day. Check out "A Common Thread." Saturdays we also gather around the Bake Oven for delicious freshly baked bread.

Quiet Valley offers glimpses at trades and skills of a bygone day during our Highlight days. Our calendar lists these Highlight days and other special events held during the season.

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Summer Programs
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Summer Fun
Our Summer Program Leader!
Quiet Valley is pleased to have Tom Salmon return as our leader for Nature Explorers, Farm Camp and our One-Week Apprentice Program. Tom is a certified teacher, who is a substitute teacher for the Pocono Mountain High School. He is an avid musician, as well as being a long-time member of Quiet Valley. He is married and the father of four. Tom is looking forward to spending time with all of our campers this summer.

Summer for Little Children

Nature Explorers 1
Come to the farm and learn all about the exciting animals, insects, trees and flowers that live in, and around the farm. We will explore the creatures that live in our pond, our woods and on the farm itself. There will also be games, crafts, stories, jumping in the hay and more, including finding out how birds eat! Parent participation is welcomed but not required.
Dates: July 8 – 12
Time: 9:30 – 11:30 Monday through Friday
Ages: Children must have completed kindergarten, first or second grade
Cost: $70.00, $60 for members
Deadlines (with payment) July 1

Minimum of five participants, maximum of 10
Leader: Tom Salmon

Nature Explorers 2
Come to the farm and learn all about the exciting animals, insects, trees and flowers that live in, and around the farm. We will explore the creatures that live in our pond, our woods and on the farm itself. There will also be games, crafts, stories, jumping in the hay and more, including finding out how birds eat! Parent participation is welcomed but not required.
Dates: August 5 – 9, 2013
Time: 9:30 – 11:30 Monday through Friday
Ages: Children must have completed kindergarten, first or second grade
Cost: $70.00, $60 for members
Deadlines (with payment) July 29

Minimum of five participants, maximum of 10
Leader: Tom Salmon
Please call Quiet Valley at 570-992-6161 or E-mail us for registration information.


Summer Youth & Teen Programs


Farm Camps Offered:
Summer Farm Camp 1

Be a farmer this summer! Experience farm life in the 1800’s, and have a great time doing it! Participants will learn how to make bread and pretzels, taste some very fresh vegetables from our garden, bake cookies, crank the ice cream freezer to make our delicious homemade ice cream, work on projects, hike the hills around the farm, play lots of games, meet our farm animals up-close and personal, and more! Farmer Milton may even have some special work for our campers to do. Join us and see what’s happening on the farm!
Dates: July 15 – 19
Time: 9:30 – 2:30 Monday through Friday
Ages: Children must have completed third, fourth or fifth grade
Cost: $110.00 , $100.00 for members
Deadlines (with payment): July 8

Minimum of six participants, maximum of 12
Leader: Tom Salmon

Summer Farm Camp 2
Be a farmer this summer! Experience farm life in the 1800’s, and have a great time doing it! Participants will learn how to make bread and pretzels, taste some very fresh vegetables from our garden, bake cookies, crank the ice cream freezer to make our delicious homemade ice cream, work on projects, hike the hills around the farm, play lots of games, meet our farm animals up-close and personal, and more! Farmer Milton may even have some special work for our campers to do. Join us and see what’s happening on the farm!
Dates: July 22 – 26
Time: 9:30 – 2:30 Monday through Friday
Ages: Children must have completed third, fourth or fifth grade
Cost: $110.00 , $100.00 for members
Deadlines (with payment): July 8 for week 1, July 15 for week 2

Minimum of six participants, maximum of 12
Leader: Tom Salmon
Contact the Office at 570-992-6161 or by E-mail for advance registration and registration forms
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Apprentice Programs Offered:

One-week Apprentice Program
Has your child always wanted to participate in one of our apprentice groups, but the once a week schedule didn’t work for your family? Well, now is your chance. This special apprentice program has everything our other programs do, but condensed into one week. This program is for older students who will be able to do more difficult projects.
Dates: July 29 – August 2
Time: 9:30 – 2:30 Monday through Friday
Ages: Boys and girls ages 11 – 14
Cost: $85.00 or $75.00 for members
Deadline (with payment) – July 22, 2013

Minimum of six participants, maximum or twelve
Leader: Tom Salmon

Thursday Apprentice Group

Aunt Eunice will be holding her Apprentice Group on Thursdays again this summer and you don’t want to miss the fun! This group is about learning interesting things, having a good time on the farm and making some new friends. Quiet Valley is an exciting place to try out new things. This summer we will enjoy a nice mix of activities which will include learning some heritage crafts, cooking and eating some tasty foods from the 1800s, having a session on both animal husbandry and fire starting (along with a lesson on fire safety of course!) as well as making butter and candles. Students will be able to get a true sense of what it was like to grow up as a child on a farm at the beginning of the 19th century.
Along with all the rest we will enjoy our traditional Thursday Apprentice Group fun, like cooking over the fire, games, hikes to the pond, animal petting and hay jumping. You never know what Aunt Eunice will come up with to surprise you! And, of course, at our last session we will have hand cranked ice cream at our End of Summer party!
My Group sessions are July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8 and 15 from 9:30am to 1:00pm. I will allow one make-up session per apprentice for students who miss a day due to vacation, illness, Bible school or camp, etc. You can choose from the following make-up days on either Saturday August 3 at Heritage Craft Day or Saturday August 31 at the farm’s bake oven. Children should come to sessions in costume with sensible shoes and bring a bag lunch and beverage.
I hope you will join me this year for a summer of fun and friendship at Quiet Valley farm. Please contact me with any questions. See you in July!!
Deb DiPasquale, aka “Aunt Eunice”
Dates: July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8 and 15
Time: 9:30 – 1:00
Ages: 11 – 14 (boys and girls both welcome)
Cost: $105.00 or $95.00 for members

Deadline (with payment): July 5, 2013
Minimum of six participants, maximum of twelve


Contact the Office at 570-992-6161 or by E-mail for advance registration and registration forms
Participants in the apprentice programs are required to come in a simple costume and bring their own lunch. Please register early to ensure an opening. Please sign up for one of our great summer programs today. See you on the farm this summer!

(All prices and programs subject to change.)
 
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