Tour A: Hayride & Apple Picking

A - is for Apples! - Hayride & Apple Picking
This tour includes:

• Tractor-drawn hayride
• 1/4 peck bag to fill with apples* (*picking from trees while crop lasts/until mid-late October)
• Souvenir sticker for each student
• Self-guided tour of animal barnyard & Interactive Fruit Garden
• Access to hillside picnic table area

Tour A. costs $6.00 per person, including any parents/chaperones or siblings (but accompanying school-employee teaching staff pay only $5.00). Hayrides cannot be conducted for less than $60; groups of fewer than 10 will be charged the difference.
Hayride & Apple Picking A. tours take anywhere from 1-2 hours. Haywagon capacity is 40 people maximum per wagonload. Groups are taken out to the orchard to pick apples and returned to the main barn within 30 minutes. Groups of more than 40 will need to be split up into sub-groups with leaders and may be taken out in differing shifts (please plan accordingly; we will try to keep large groups together as much as possible).

Tour B - Orchard Classroom

Orchard Classroom Tour

• Age-appropriate Q & A session with tour guide
• Live demonstration of old-fashioned cider press
• Narrated video of modern cider press methods
• Tractor-drawn hayride through orchard
• 1/4 peck bag to fill with apples (*picking from trees while crop lasts/until mid-late October)
• Souvenir sticker for each student
• Self-guided tour of animal barnyard & Interactive Fruit Garden
• Access to hillside picnic table area
• Pasteurized apple cider sample (8 oz.) for each student

Tour B. costs $9.00 per person, including any parents/chaperones or siblings (but accompanying school-employee teaching staff pay only $5.00). Hayrides cannot be conducted for less than $60; groups of fewer than 10 will be charged the difference.
Orchard Classroom B. tours take anywhere from 1 and 1/2 to 2 + hours, based on wagonloads. Typically, groups are first shown into the Barn for the classroom portion of the tour, and then take the hayride afterwards; occasionally that order must be reversed or juggled at our discretion. Haywagon capacity is 40 people maximum, per wagonload. Groups will be taken out to the orchard to pick apples and returned to the main barn within 30 minutes. Groups of more than 40 will need to be split into sub-groups with leaders, and taken out in shifts (please plan accordingly; we will try to keep large groups together as much as possible).