SLA Agriculture Programs For Schools

Agriculture Programs

For Schools and Teachers

We welcome school groups to come visit us at beautiful Dog Mountain Farm in Carnation. Just 45 minutes from Seattle, this small working farm showcases free-range poultry, draft horses, honeybees, orchards, a large vegetable garden, and coming this spring – goats and pigs!

We are happy to work directly with teachers to come up with a custom program that ties into your classroom curriculum. Check out the sample field trip curriculum below to get an idea of what we can provide.

Sample curriculum for your class visit:

Compost – The Basis of Healthy Soil
Help us make a compost pile, and get to observe other compost piles in the different stages of decomposition. Learn about the green, nitrogen-rich layers and brown, carbon-rich layers that are the key to successful decomposition. We’ll also learn about the helpful bugs, worms and microorganisms that thrive in rich soil and help our plants grow, and get to see just how hot a compost pile can get!

How Seeds Grow
Take a farm tour, see our large market garden, and then learn how it all begins – with the planting of a seed. We’ll get to talk about soil, where seeds come from, and how they grow when they come into contact with earth, water and sun.

A Walk through the Food Pyramid
Farm tour, with representation of the food pyramid with farm fresh products. Grains: Potatoes, discussion of wheat grown in other parts of Washington Vegetables: market garden Fruits: Orchard, berries Dairy: Milk Goats, Eggs Meat: Chickens, Pigs Fats, Oils, Sweets: Honey bees

What is the difference between products here, and products in the supermarkets? Discussion tweaked to age group

The chicken shed’s connected to the garden….Connections on the farm
The kitchen scraps from the house feed the animals, whose manure nourishes the garden, and on and on. The key to a successful farm or garden is taking measure of how all the pieces of the farm fit together. It’s an active community and we’ll get to see it all on our tour of the farm. The program ends with a discussion on connections, on the farm, in nature, and in your own lives. Where do we have dead-ends in our cycles that we could connect back into the ,

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Farm Field Trips support
Essential Academic Learning Requirements!

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