BLUEBIRD DAY!

March 15th: 10:00am -12:00pm

$20 per family

Enjoy an interpretive walk on the Bluebird Trail with one of our experienced guides and learn about our beloved Eastern Bluebird. Along the way, listen and identify other returning birds as you walk through the fields and around the ponds. Build your own bluebird house to take home and mount! Visit the peacocks and other farm animals and enjoy a relaxing morning on the farm.

(includes one bluebird box)

HELLO SPRING!

March 22nd: 10:00am -12:00pm
Drop in between 10:00am and 1:00pm

$10 per family

Enjoy a visit to the farm and meet some new baby animals. Enjoy a walk on the Bluebird Trail to look for some early signs of spring and listen to the returning songbirds. Help plant a few spring bulbs to encourage the pollinators and take a few home with you! Enjoy stories and children’s activities throughout the morning.

NATURE WALKS

April 5th
Drop in between 10:00am and 12:00pm

$10 per family

Enjoy a walk around the farm and on the trails to observe the returning songbirds and wildlife. Feed the ducks on the pond and meet the new ducklings and chicks. Children can participate in the garden planting seed cups and making wildflower seed balls to take home and plant.

FOREST GARDENS & MUSHROOM LOGS

April 12th
Drop in between 10:00am and 12:00pm

$10 per person
$15 Parent/Child(ren)

Learn how to inoculate a mushroom log and plant a mushroom bed. Mushrooms grow well in the woods but they also grow well in a backyard! Take home an inoculated mushroom log you plant yourself with your choice of Shiitake or Chestnut sawdust spawn. Explore our expanding Forest Garden and learn a few techniques about gardening in the woods and what plants may grow well in your shady backyard. Children will enjoy finding the different fairy houses in the forest.

SPRING NATURE HUNT …BUNNIES & CHICKS

April 19th
10:00am until 1:00pm

$15 per family of 4 ($5 each additional child)
Pre-Registration is REQUIRED for this event

Bring your Easter Basket to the farm and enjoy a Spring nature hunt on the Bluebird Trail. Along with finding eggs filled with materials to help wildlife and the environment, we’ll look for birds and plants and signs that spring has arrived. Please preregister.

Please email the farm at bluebirdtrailfarm@gmail.com
Or call (607) 329.4023

STRAWBERRY POTS & HERB BOWLS

May 3rd
10:00am until 12:00pm

$20 per family

Visit the farm and make your own beautiful strawberry or kitchen herb bowl to take home. Each family can plant a large strawberry pot with flowering strawberry plants that will bloom and produce delicious strawberries in June. Or create a wonderful herb bowl with. a variety of young, healthy herb plants.

MOMS & MARIGOLDS

May 10th
10:00am until 1:00pm

$20 per family

Bring mom to the farm for a fun spring visit and decorate and fill a beautiful clay pot or vase with Marigolds and other flowers to take home. Each family can decorate one large pot and choose from a variety of young annual flowers to fill it with. All materials included: pot, soil, decorations & flowers. Take mom on the bluebird trail for a relaxing nature walk!

FISH FISH FISH

May 17th
10:00am until 12:00pm

$10 per family

Help us stock the ponds at Bluebird Trail Farm with a variety of NY State Brook Trout, minnows, Sunfish, Rainbow Trout and Koi. After observing the fish in buckets and identifying the different breeds, children can release them into the water. We will look at the ecology of a pond and who lives there. Enjoy an interpretive bird walk on the Bluebird Trail with one of our guides, and a visit on the farm.

HELLO HONEY BEES!

May 31st
10:00am until 12:00pm

$20 per family

Enjoy a morning on the farm and a visit to our apiary. Our beekeepers will be on hand to answer questions and discuss the basics of beekeeping and how to create a pollinator-friendly yard. Children will be introduced in a fun and engaging way to the life cycle of honey bees and pollination. Each guest will receive a small bottle of our spring wild flower honey.

Also on that day guests can visit the flower garden and learn what plants are the most pollinator friendly and how to attract pollinators to your yard. Take home a couple of friendly pollinator flowers to grow in your own yard.