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Posted on January 13, 2017 by Amber

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Come check out our middle school! Saturday December 15th from 10-11:30am. Schedule of the day: 10:00 - 10:15 Arrive at The Coop, mingle, and see students' work 10:15 - 10:45 Teacher and principal presentations, and Alumni Q and A 10:45 - 11:30 Games, chores and get to know the farm Refreshments will be provided! Hope to see you there!

Scenes of student farmers in the timber frame greenhouse ⚒🧰 #learntofarm #thefarmschool #studentfarmer #timberframe #greenhouse.

Summer in a jar! 🍓🍓🍓Student farmers canning strawberry jam from our own frozen berries harvested earlier this summer #thefarmschool #learntofarm #studentfarmer #canning #strawberries

Cinnamon buns and jigsaws -- Orchard Gardens 4th graders made this place their home for our last week of fall programming! #wemissthemalready #winteriscoming #farmschoolpvs

@farm_school_gus -- follow this famous and goofy farm dog (he follows back) #farmschoolpvs

December is all about timber framing for our student farmers! Here’s JC drilling a hole by hand for one of the first pieces of the structure they’ll be working on into the spring #thefarmschool #learntofarm #studentfarmer #timberframe #carpentry

This morning student farmers worked with Dr. Major learning about dairy herd health - four of our girls are pregnant! 🎀🎀🎀🎀 #thefarmschool #learntofarm #studentfarmer #dairy #dairycows

Curtis Guild fourth graders playing, dancing, and leading #farmschoolpvs

Today’s a beautiful, snowy day for our student farmers and staff to row cover + sand bag garlic and strawberries #garlic #snowday #strawberries #thefarmschool #studentfarmers #learntofarm

You can’t beat a Waslaske Barn sunrise with the beef herd! #beefcows #thefarmschool #learntofarm #studentfarmers #waslaskebarn

The best way to train a cow is to dress like him #Goose #farmschoolpvs

Maggie’s Farmhouse in the first snow of the season! ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ #maggies #learntofarm #studentfarmers #thefarmschool #firstsnow

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The Farm School offers a year-long, work-based, experiential immersion in the practical skills of diversified, sustainable farming. Everyday and in every way our student farmers learn to farm by farming, supported by coursework, mentoring and instruction from our staff farmers. Our program runs October to September and is open to adult students 18 and up.

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