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Favorite Places On The Farm

We're excited to open for the 2025 season this weekend! To celebrate, we asked Shelburne Farms staff members to share their favorite places on our working farm campus.

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Connecting to Farms, and a Fun Plant Poetry Activity

An activity from the ABCs of Farm-Based Education workshop to help you connect with food and farms. Anyone — classrooms or families — can enjoy this activity any time of year.

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Kid-Favorite Plants for Your Garden

Some of our educators' favorite plants that stir up excitement in the garden — try a few in your plot this season!

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Activity: Make Natural Fabric Dyes

A kid-friendly, hands-on project that gives food and fabric scraps a second life.

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Gifts from the Land, and a Kid-Friendly Bread Recipe

For an upcoming holiday, here's our easy recipe for rolls that you can make with your family as you talk about the wheat to bread connection.

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A Journey from Sheep to Sweater

Did you know that Shelburne Farms has a flock of 60 sheep? But how do you get from a white woolly sheep to a warm, cozy sweater?

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Shearing Our Flock of Farmyard Sheep

Watch our Children's Farmyard flock get sheared and learn about the equipment and process!

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Make a Snowflake - A Project Seasons Activity

In the spirit of winter, we're sharing this favorite activity from our publication, Project Seasons, to help you appreciate the beauty of snowflakes!

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Winter Wildlife Detectives: Print, Pattern & Place

Use the “3 P’s” of tracking — Print, Pattern, and Place — when creating your own story of the secretive lives of wild animals!

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Winter Wildlife Detectives: Animal Clues!

Wild animals are quick, sneaky, and often hard to find out on the land — but they often leave behind signs or clues that they’ve been around!

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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