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Homeschool Day

Life on the Blackland Prairie Past & Present 

October 8, 2025 10 am -12 pm

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Join us on the Farmstead for Homeschool Day!

  • Learn from demonstrators how useful products were made in the past or in the present.
  • Experience farm chores including washing laundry, plowing a field, feeding chickens, and milking Buttermilk, the mechanical cow 
  • Meet all the farm animals: pigs, goats, sheep, ducks, and Poncho the donkey
  • Ride the wagon around the 4-acre farm
  • Challenge yourself with a scavenger hunt

Wilson House will not be open for this event.

Activities open from 10am-12pm. Farm open until 1pm. Bring a lunch and enjoy a picnic on the farm!

All tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. Tickets that are resold will not be honored. 

Purchase your online as events often sell out. If sold out, no tickets will be available the day of the event or at the door.

Parking

Due to construction on Pitman Drive, parking is located on the north side of Starbucks off Custer. You can cross Pitman Drive near the Chase Bank at 15th Street. Do not park at Chase Bank or in front of houses on Gardengrove Court. 

Weather and Cancellations

Events are held, rain or shine. Activities take place outside on our 4-acre farmstead.  Be prepared for possible muddy conditions if it has recently rained. 
 

If a program is cancelled due to severe weather, the decision will be made by 8:30am on the day of the program. An email will be sent to the address connected with your tickets. Refunds will be processed in these cases.