Summer Farm Camp has drawn to a close.
Enrollment for Summer 2025 opens on Saturday
March 1st!
Located on 3 beautiful wooded acres
in Soquel, our play based, emergent program
offers free access to painting, playdough,
bubbles, fairy gardens, tree fort, swings,
slide, trampoline, dress up, play kitchen,
plus our covered outdoor art studio, gentle
farm animals, and so much more! Our
indoor play room provides plenty of books,
toys, games, puzzles, Legos, arts & crafts.
A good-sized
country kitchen offers a space for baking
and other cooking projects.
In addition, through observing wild life and
participating in fun farm "chores" like milking goats,
observing egg collection, gardening, and
helping to feed the chickens, ducks, pony, and
pigs children learn about and take joy in our natural world.
Story time and hands-on craft and science projects develop creativity, self-confidence, social skills, and a deepening knowledge of science and nature.
A cozy home environment and nurturing staff completes a magical childhood wonderland that children
and parents love. Grades
Kindergarten through 3rd grade.
Children must be at least 5 years old to
participate. Our programs include:
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During our
Summer Farm Camp
sessions
we plan special projects each day
such as baking our own muffins,
learning to tie-dye, or creating a
personal fairy garden to take home.
Each week features a new theme, such
as Medieval Make Believe, Fairy
Tales, Dinosaur
Daze, or Blast Off for Space Fun.
Each of these exciting theme units
includes arts & crafts, hands on
science and/or engineering, theme
related stories and games, and cooking projects.
Learn
what's going on each
week here at the farm
this summer!
General enrollment begins Saturday March 1st.
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Contact us
for more information about
current openings for
kindergarten
students.
Little Garden Patch offers an
extraordinary after school program
during the school year
with pick up and transport to LGPF available for both Main Street and Soquel Elementary
school students.
Learn more about Little Garden Patch
Farm's
After School Care
program,
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Little
Garden Patch will open enrollment
for Spring Break 2025 on February
1st 2025.
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Little
Garden Patch is pleased to offer our
program to home schooling families
as well. Currently
homeschoolers aged 5 - 8 years may
attend during our regular after
school business hours. Please
contact us to find out what our
schedule will be for Fall 2024.
Does not include the week of Spring
Break, 4/7-4/11 2025.
Seperate enrollment required for
Spring Break.
Learn more about
Home Schoolers on the Farm.
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We are more than a
licensed care facility, we are a second home and a
place where your child can experience the natural world right in our
backyard. Read more about what makes Little Garden
Patch so different from other programs. Read
About Us
Meet Lilly, one of our pot bellied pigs!
She just LOVES to get belly rubs!
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Learn more
about the staff and volunteers at Little Garden Patch Farm
and the steps we take to keep children safe
in our care.
To see recent pics and happenings here at
Little Garden Patch Farm visit our Facebook page.
For more information about any
of our programs, or about
volunteer and employment
opportunities, please drop us
some
email.
Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
See additional scenes from around the farm.
Here is a highlight from the
article:
Local mom Linnaea Avenell and her family recently made a move that affects not only her own family’s connection with the land but also extends that connection to local children.
“For many years my husband and I have been very much committed to the idea that connecting kids with nature would help them become more caring stewards of our Earth and of the other creatures that share it,” Linnaea explains.
“Our most recent project in this vein is transforming our home/property here in Soquel into ‘Little Garden Patch Farm.’ Our goal has been to provide a space where children who might otherwise be stuck indoors all afternoon can enjoy child-led time playing outdoors the way so many kids no longer do.”
Rather than sell the property in Soquel where she grew up and where her children and their friends got to roam, Linnaea’s family decided to move in and make it their business. Little Garden Patch Farm now welcomes children five and up for gardening and nature time.
“I love watching a child arrive here after school—tired, batteries running on empty—get thoroughly recharged from running about outside playing games of make believe, playing ‘farm’ with the toys in the sensory tables, shucking corn husks from the garden to feed the goats, laughing at the chickens, exuberantly chasing a ball, and giggling along at story time,” Linnaea says. “It makes all the farm chores and maintenance I do around here feel totally worthwhile!”
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