Homeschool Programs

Homeschool Day

Farmstead Life                     

Tickets on sale January 30     

Choose from either March 4 or May 13, 2026               

Join us on the Farmstead for Homeschool Day! 

  • See how farmers and their family used local resources to live on prairie. 
  • Try your hand at farm chores including washing laundry, plowing a field, feeding the chickens, and milking Buttermilk the Cow (our mechanical milking machine).
  • Meet the farm animals: pigs, goats, sheep, ducks, turkeys, and Poncho the donkey!
  • Ride the wagon around the 4-acre farm!
  • Look high and low for unique artifact or animals to complete a farmstead scavenger hunt

Wilson House will not be open for this event.

Activities open 10am-12pm; grounds close at 1pm

All tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.

Man washing clothes with a washboard in a tub

Homeschool Field Trips

Homeschool groups are welcome to attend Homeschool Days! 

All Fall and Spring Field Trip dates are SOLD OUT!

If you have 40 students or more confirmed, you may request a field trip. Please see the School Field Trip page.