PROGRAMS
Educational
Programs - Summer Programs
- Special Events
- Workshops |
Summer
Programs
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| Quiet Valley is open
to the general public for the summer season from June 20 to Labor
Day. 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! |
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| 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. |
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Tours - Wagon Rides - Summer
Highlights - Little Children
Apprentice Groups - Farm
Camp - Jr. Volunteers |
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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 |
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| 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 each 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, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
and also subject to the availability of the horses. Additional
cost of $3.00 per person. |
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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
for Little Children: |
| Nature
Explorers
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. |
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| Summer
Youth Programs
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2010
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 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): |
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| 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 |
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Victorian Apprentice Group
The 2010 theme for our Victorian Apprentice
Group will be Crafts and Games. Our focus will
be on some of the crafts that Victorian children might have made
as well as those games that they would have played in their spare
time. Some of our crafts, including pressed flower books, walnut
shell and sea shell crafts will be nature themed. We will also
try some sewing and painting. Of course, it wouldn’t be summer
without games! We will play our traditional games, such as Capture
the Treasure and Corner Ball, and we will learn a few more to
play throughout the summer. To end our fun filled summer we will
host an ice cream social and serve ice cream that we have prepared
that day. Tuesdays are sure to be fun in the Victorian Apprentice
Group, so join us for a summer full of fun, crafts, and games.
Girls Only, ages 10-14
Dates: Tuesdays, June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3 and 10.
Time: 9:30am to 1pm
Cost: $105.00 non-members, $95.00 QV members
Leader: Emily Dus
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| 2010
Summer Farm Camps - June 28-July 2, July 26-30, August 2-6 |
| 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.
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Junior
Volunteer Program
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. |
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(All prices and programs
subject to change.) |
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