Afternoons at Wild Rose Farm
On the Farm and in the Forest
In Fall 2027 we will be offering Afternoon Themes as well as an Apprentice Guide in Training Program
See below for details
Ages 5-14 Monday-Thursday 2:45pm-5:30pm
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This program is held September - December and February - June. The wagon departs Wild Rose around 2:45 p.m. Pick-up is at the Pine Hill Waldorf School at 3:15 p.m.
Children may join us one to four afternoons per week. The cost includes an afternoon snack and crafting materials. Transportation is available via Wilton-Lyndeborough Bus #1 (3:30'ish drop off at the Hilltop Cafe & the Temple-Wilton Community Farm). Please contact us to coordinate: office@wildrosefarmnh.org.​​​
​​​Please NOTE: Given the number of students attending from the Pine Hill campus, we will follow the High Mowing School calendar. For children joining us from other schools we will take into account local SAU calendar holidays at time of invoicing as well as make every effort to coordinate 'make-up' afternoons, for absences due to academic calendars. We require a minimum number of participants to hold each program.​
Mondays
Forestry-to-Wood and Nature Crafts
After snack on Mondays children will divide into two groups, one group will work on green woodworking projects while the other will work on forestry projects. Children will engage with everything from harvesting saplings and preparing them for trellising in the garden to making projects of their own, like the handmade hooks below. Learn more about our curriculum!
Tuesdays
Farm-to-Table at a working farm
After snack on Tuesdays children will experience our Farm-to-Table curriculum via visits to Temple Wilton Community Farm (TWCF), the parent farm of Wild Rose Farm. Children will have an opportunity to support the farmers as well as bear witness to the life of the first biodynamically run Community Supported Agriculture farm in the country. After a certain number of visits, children will be allowed to prepare food grown from both TWCF and Wild Rose Farm to learn about how it is that food ends up on their plate.
Thursdays
Grass-to-Wool Fiber Craft
After snack on Thursdays children will engage in our Grass-to-Wool Craft curriculum. In addition to making wool crafts, children will learn about how to process wool (wash, dye, felt, etc.). In the Spring, children will get to witness the shearing of the sheep, and during the last week in May and first weeks in June, they will get a chance to learn how to cut grass with a scythe and make hay by hand before haymaking season is in full swing (during our Animal Husbandry and Haymaker's Village summer camp).
Wednesdays
Farm-to-Table on the homestead
After snack on Wednesdays children will engage in our Farm-to-Table curriculum through gardening or caring for the animals at Wild Rose Farm. Children will harvest from the garden, help maintain fences, feed and water the Wild Rose Farm sheep and goats, as well as preserve and prepare food grown on site at Wild Rose. Some weeks will be more garden and farm focused, and some weeks will be more culinary focused. Some weeks will have both. In the Fall, activities will be focused on harvesting, preserving, and preparing for Winter; in the Spring activities will focus on preparing soil, planting, trellising, and sheering sheep. Learn more about our curriculum!
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Apprentice Guide in Training Program:
Apprentice Guides in Training for youth ages 12 to 17 years (See Registration Form)
The youth must be registered for the programming in which the Apprentice Guide Training will occur even if the upper age of that program is younger than the Apprentice Guide in Training.
Apprentice Guides in Training will deepen their practical skills while learning how to support younger children as they engage in Wild Rose's land-to-craft curriculum. They engage in all of the things they likely loved doing at Wild Rose as a young person (forestry-woodworking-craft, grass-wool-fiber-crafts, farm-to-table, etc.) AND they get to help teach the younger children how to do it too.
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By teaching the younger ones Apprentice Guides in Training deepen their relationship to their craft and the natural world that makes food, art and craft possible.
To apply please email a scanned hand written letter from your child explaining why they would like to be a Apprentice Guide in Training. If writing is difficult, call/email Elizabeth to arrange a alternative: Elizabeth@wildrosefarmnh.org.