Stone Barns Center Introduces Spring-Break Cooking Classes for Kids
The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills has expanded its annual educational activities with the introduction of Spring-Break Farm Camps for kindergartners to third-graders.
The kids will participate in cooking, preparing and eating a snack based on what’s growing on the farm. They will harvest meal components and take home recipes. The campers will also help the Center’s farmers with seasonal chores such as egg collecting, sheep care, honeybee observation and composting.
Understanding how a farm functions, winning kids over to eating nutritious food, and raising poultry are also some of the topics covered in classes on the Spring, 2015 educational schedule of The Stone Barns Center.
At “Poultry School” a two-day program of intensive classroom instruction and hands-on workshops, attendees will become familiar with methods and techniques used to raise pastured poultry. Birds to be covered in these sessions include layer-chickens, meat chickens, turkeys and geese.
The registration cost for the March 28-29 program is $100.
The eleventh annual Sheep Shearing Fest is planned for April 25. The Center’s flock of Finn-Dorest sheep will be sheared.
March and April Programs and Events
March 8. Monthly Winter Farm Market. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission.
March 21. Cooking at Home With Kids. Tips for getting children involved in cooking while enticing them to try nutritious foods. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Minimum age for registrants is 18, $40.
March 21. Farm Camp day for “Growers.” Second and third graders. Drop-children-off event. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $50 per person.
March 28-29. Poultry School 2015. Raising pastured birds for soil health and flavor. Two days of intensive classroom instruction and hands-on workshops. $100.
April 1. Spring-Break Farm Camp day for “Sprouts.” Kindergarteners and first graders. Drop-children-off event. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. $75 per child.
April 1. Spring-Break Farm Camp day for “Growers.” Second and third graders. Drop-children-off event. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. $75 per child.
April 8 to May 27 (every Wednesday) or April 9 to May 28 (every Thursday). Little Cooks and Gardeners. Ages 3 to 5. 11 a.m. to noon or 2 to 3 p.m. $220 for a parent or caretaker and one child. $220.
April 12. Monthly Winter Farm Market. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission.
April 18. Cooking at Home With Kids. Tips for getting children involved in cooking while enticing them to try nutritious foods. Simple inventive recipes are covered. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Minimum age for registrants is 18, $40.
April 18. Farm Camp day for “Growers.” Second and third graders. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. $50 per person.
April 25. Sheep Shearing Fest 2015. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children under 2: free, 2 to 14: $15; Adults (15 plus): $25.
Insider’s Tour. Behind-the-scenes tour of greenhouses, planting fields and livestock. 90-minute tours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Extensive walking involved. Children 6 to 14: $17; Adults : $20.
Family Farm Tour. 45-minute tour on Saturday and Sunday. Youths and adults: $10.
The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is located at 630 Bedford Road, Pocantico Hills, NY 10591, 914-366-6200, www.stonebarnscenter.org.
