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Educational Programs - Summer Programs - Special Events - Workshops

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 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

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

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.

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Farm Tours - Wagon Rides - Summer Highlights - Little Children
Apprentice Groups - Farm Camp

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 Belgian 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.

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.

2011 Summer for Little Children

Please check back for 2012 programs

Nature Explorers

Become an explorer down on the farm! Come see all the wonderful things that Quiet Valley has to offer! Each day will have a new and exciting theme. From animals, gardening and trees, to games and stories, this program is filled with exciting activities for children! By the end of the week your explorer will have participated in many hands-on farm activities. We will visit the animals on the farm, play games, make crafts and jump in the hay! Parent participation is welcomed but not required.

Dates: Choose either June 20 – 24 or July 25 – 29
Time: 9:30 to 11:30 am
Ages: Children must have completed kindergarten, first or second grade
Cost: $70.00 or $60.00 for QV members
Registration and payment is due by Monday, June 13 for the June session and Friday, July 18 for the July session
Group size: minimum of 5, Maximum of 10
Leader: Danielle (Snyder) Donaghy

Please call Quiet Valley at 570-992-6161 or E-mail us for registration information.

Summer Youth Programs

2012 Apprentice Groups :

Participants in the apprentice programs are required to come in a simple costume and bring their own lunch. The programs start at 9:30am and end at 1:00pm. Please contact the farm at 570-992-6161 Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 4pm or E-mail us to register for the apprentice program you wish. Please register early to ensure an opening. Please read below for specific information about each apprentice program, and sign up for one of our great summer programs today. See you on the farm this summer!

Apprentice Programs Offered:

2012 Thursday Granddaddy Apprentice Group
Aunt Eunice is back this year teaching her Thursday Granddaddy Apprentice group! We will be learning what life was like for the average child of the early 1800s. What were some everyday activities they enjoyed, what games did they play, what kind of chores did they do, how did they prepare for their future? Many children growing up in a rural area at the beginning of the 19th century would grow up to be farmers or farm wives. They might become apprentices so they could learn the skills needed to become a tradesman like a cooper or carpenter or a craftsperson like a lace maker or basket maker. Maybe they would become a shopkeeper and sell their wares in the nearest town.

First, we will look at the life of a farm family. A farmer and his wife had to know about things like animal care, gardening, harvesting, food preservation, herb lore, spinning and weaving. We can explore these areas by visiting the farm animals, planting or harvesting vegetables and herbs from the garden, preserving fruit in the dry house, trying out the drop spindle and working on a weaving project.

Next, would you like to learn to be a potter, an artist or a woodworker? Apprentices can try their hands at these trades and be involved in appropriate lessons, crafts, etc. for that trade. One day you will be artists and make paper, sketch, color your own fracturs or maybe make a scherenschnitte (cut paper) project. Another of the days you will apprentice to the pottery trade and learn how to “throw” a pot or mug on a pottery wheel. One day you will be wood working apprentices and learn some simple joining techniques and make a small item out of wood.

Along with our focus area we will enjoy our traditional Thursday Granddaddy 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!

I will allow one make-up session per apprentice for students who miss a day due to vacation, illness, Bible school or camp. You can choose from the following make-up days which are on Saturdays at the farm’s bake oven: July 21, 28 or August 18.

Children should come to sessions in costume with sensible shoes and bring a bag lunch. I hope you will join me this year for a summer of fun and friendship at Quiet Valley. Please call me with any questions. See you this July!!

Deb DiPasquale, aka “Aunt Eunice”

Dates: Thursdays, July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, & 15
Time: 9:30 to 1:00 pm
Cost: $85.00 or $75.00 for members
Ages: Boys & Girls 11 to 14
Registration with payment due by Monday, July 2, 2012
Contact the Office at 570-992-6161 or by E-mail for advance registration and registration forms

Please check back for more 2012 programs

Please check back for 2012 programs

2011 Summer Farm Camp - Monday, June 27 thru Friday, July 1

Come join us for an exciting week on the farm! Our camp program includes a wide variety of activities. Baking bread, meeting our farm animals, hiking, crafts, playing traditional farm games, and, of course, making our great vanilla ice cream are just some of the activities you will enjoy! Come ready for a fun and exciting week!

Date: June 27 – July 1
Boys and girls who have completed 3rd, 4th or 5th Grade
Time: 9:30 am to 2:30 pm each day, Monday thru Friday
Cost: $110.00 or $100.00 for QV members
Registration and payment is due by Monday, June 20
Minimum of 6, maximum of 12
Leader: Danielle (Snyder) Donaghy
Please call Quiet Valley at 570-992-6161 or E-mail us for registration information.

(All prices and programs subject to change.)