Summer Programs

Admissions:
Adults $10.00 , Children (3-12) $5.00 , Children Under 3 FREE!

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 June 20 to Labor Day:
Tuesday thru Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm , Sunday 12 noon - 5 pm
Closed Mondays except Labor Day

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. Check out our Virtual Tour for a view of the various areas of the farm.

No pets allowed due to interference with our animals.

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

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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.

Get ready for fun exploring Quiet Valley Farm with in this all new program. Daily themes include “From Egg to Chick”, “In the Farm Pond”, “Our Garden Helpers”, “Trees and More Trees”, and “Green and Growing”. We will explore the life cycles of chicks and frogs, learn about garden spiders and worms and other helpful insects, as well as learn about the trees on our farm and how our garden grows. Each day will include stories, games, snack and a special craft. At the end of the week your explorer will have learned many things while having a great time. They will have dyed eggs with onion skins, made a paper turtle and produced a paper-bag “memory book”, a bug house and a mini-garden to take home. Parent participation welcomed but not required.

Dates: (please check back)
Time: 9:30 -11:30 each day
Ages: Boys and girls who have completed kindergarten, first or second grade
Cost: $70.00 or $60.00 for QV members
Group size: minimum of 5, Maximum of 10
Leader:

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

Summer Youth Programs

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 at farm@quietvalley.org 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 (please check back for additional programs that will be added):

Granddaddy Cabin Apprentice Group

Aunt Eunice’s Granddaddy Cabin Apprentice Group is moving back to Thursdays and is open to boys and girls ages 10 - 14!! It’s going to be a “wild” summer at Quiet Valley as we learn about wild flowers, wild birds and especially wild animals. Domestic farm animals weren’t the only animals useful to early settlers.
Besides learning about local wildlife and how it helped (or hurt) the farm family we will be doing some painting and sketching of animals and plants, making a leather bag, helping in the garden, making candy, and cooking over an open fire. There may be a few surprises in store for the apprentices as well. Folks on a farm in the old days couldn’t afford to be wasteful so we will come up with a game that children can play at Harvest Festival that helps them learn about how to be good recyclers. As a regular part of every summer we include some games, hay jumping, animal petting, nature walks and we end with our homemade ice cream party. There will be lots to learn, but plenty of time to relax, have fun and make some friends, so come on out and join “Aunt Eunice” and the Granddaddy Cabin Apprentice group for a great summer.
Questions can be directed during the day to Deb DiPasquale at 992-6161 or deb@quietvalley.org.
Hope to see you at the farm this summer!“Aunt Eunice” – Deb DiPasquale

Boys and Girls, ages 10 -15
Dates: Thursdays, July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12, and 19
Time: 9:30am to 1pm
Cost: $105.00 non-members, $95 QV members
Leader: Deb DiPasquale

This is our traditional farm camp program that we have been offering for years. Students will be doing a variety of activities, including baking bread and pretzels, meeting our farm animals, hiking the hills surrounding the farm, doing a variety of crafts, making homemade soda, playing a whole host of games, and, of course, making our great chocolate chip cookies and vanilla ice cream.

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 non-members, $100.00 QV members
Leaders: (to be announced)

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

Open to all youth ages 13 - 16
Materials Fee: $15.00
Dates: Wednesdays, July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4, August 11
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Enrollment is limited to six.

Interested in become a farm volunteer? This program is for older youth who wish to learn more about farm chores, craft skills, museum practices and tour guiding. Led by former farm manager Gary Oiler and curator Janet Mishkin, this is an opportunity for you to focus your skills and expand your knowledge about Quiet Valley.

The program will run for six weeks, with each week offering a variety of activities. Part of each session will be spent in offering volunteer service to Quiet Valley. This program would also qualify for school service learning programs.

Weekly sessions will include such activities as gardening and horticulture, fire starting, rope making, laundry, blacksmithing, early games, tours and museum artifacts. If participants wish to bring their lunches and stay until 2:30 p.m., we will do additional tasks as service to Quiet Valley. All activities are appropriate for boys and girls.

Space is limited. Students interested in participating should contact the Quiet Valley Office at 570-992-6161 or E-mail farm@quietvalley.org before June 9, 2010. Pre-registration is required.