Amy's Backyard Farm

Amy's Backyard Farm Regenerative working homestead where we grow food, raise animals, and steward the land with intention.

Small-group, drop-off nature classes led by an experienced educator and former school counselor in the backyard classroom.

Edit: Registration is closed. Make sure you are following Amy’s Backyard Farm for more opportunities🌱🌱 Considering Summe...
06/07/2026

Edit: Registration is closed. Make sure you are following Amy’s Backyard Farm for more opportunities🌱

🌱 Considering Summer Homestead Classes? Curious About Fall Homeschool Opportunities?

Come experience Amy's Backyard Farm for yourself!

I'm opening the farm for a FREE Homestead Experience Day on Saturday, June 13.

Families will enjoy a short hands-on visit where children can:

🧈 Make butter in a jar
🍞 Taste fresh sourdough bread
🌾 Explore wheat berries and learn how grain becomes flour
🐓 Take a guided homestead tour and observe the animals

This is a great opportunity to:
✔️ Visit the space before committing
✔️ Meet Amy
✔️ Learn about summer classes
✔️ Join the fall homeschool interest list
✔️ See what homestead-based learning looks like in real life

📅 Saturday, June 13
⏰ Time slots available from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
🌱 Ages 4–12
📍 Mickleton, NJ

Space is limited, and registration is required.

👉 Reserve your family's time slot here: https://forms.gle/c6UDjDgPMiB9PBys5

I'd love to meet you and show you around the homestead!

That’s a wrap on our spring session! 🌱I had the best students, and I loved growing alongside them as we built the beginn...
05/28/2026

That’s a wrap on our spring session! 🌱

I had the best students, and I loved growing alongside them as we built the beginning of an experience that so many of us could benefit from: slowing down, living in alignment with nature, and giving back to the land while receiving something greater 🌎

Parents shared feedback like: “This is the only program my son counts down the days until.” 💛

Tuesdays filled quickly, but Wednesday (now open) and Thursday groups still have openings!🌱 Tuesday: Garden-to-Table Exp...
05/24/2026

Tuesdays filled quickly, but Wednesday (now open) and Thursday groups still have openings!

🌱 Tuesday: Garden-to-Table Explorers (Ages 4–7)
Currently full — waitlist open

🛠 Wednesday: Wild Makers (Ages 5–7)
For children ready for a little more independence, collaboration, and hands-on outdoor projects

🌿 Thursday: Nature Builders (Ages 7–10)
Homestead and permaculture-inspired building, problem-solving, habitat projects, and deeper nature and garden exploration

Looking forward to getting some hands in the dirt this summer! Message me for details or registration information.

05/17/2026

One month into our spring pilot program, and it’s already become something really special.

Over the past few weeks, students have gotten messy comparing store-bought eggs to farm fresh eggs and learning what fertilization actually looks like, candled eggs and watched their chicks hatch, learned to safely handle chickens and help care for animals, explored companion planting in our fruit tree guilds and vegetable garden, and dug into soil ecology through composting, vermicomposting, and lasagna gardening.

They’ve worked together on cooperative games and projects, built confidence through hands-on responsibility, kept nature journals, explored a local beaver dam while learning how animals shape ecosystems, and tasted food straight from the garden — including kale, spinach, radishes, onion greens, and even borage flowers.

But more than anything, this month has been full of muddy boots, curious questions, teamwork, creativity, problem-solving, and those little moments of wonder that happen naturally when children are given time outside to explore, build, observe, and connect.

I’m so grateful to the families who trusted me with this first group and incredibly excited to keep growing this vision.

05/17/2026

One month into our spring pilot program, and it’s already become something really special.

Over the past few weeks, students have gotten messy comparing store-bought eggs to farm fresh eggs and learning what fertilization actually looks like, candled eggs and watched their chicks hatch, learned to safely handle chickens and help care for animals, explored companion planting in our fruit tree guilds and vegetable garden, and dug into soil ecology through composting, vermicomposting, and lasagna gardening.

They’ve worked together on cooperative games and projects, built confidence through hands-on responsibility, kept nature journals, explored a local beaver dam while learning how animals shape ecosystems, and tasted food straight from the garden — including kale, spinach, radishes, onion greens, and even borage flowers.

But more than anything, this month has been full of muddy boots, curious questions, teamwork, creativity, problem-solving, and those little moments of wonder that happen naturally when children are given time outside to explore, build, observe, and connect.

I’m so grateful to the families who trusted me with this first group and incredibly excited to keep growing this vision.

🌿 Summer Homestead Classes Are Open!I’m so excited to share that summer classes at Amy’s Backyard Farm are officially op...
05/04/2026

🌿 Summer Homestead Classes Are Open!

I’m so excited to share that summer classes at Amy’s Backyard Farm are officially open.

These small, hands-on classes are designed to give kids time outside to explore, build, grow food, and be part of a real working homestead.

This summer, I’m offering:

🌱 Tuesdays (Ages 4–7) – Garden-to-Table Explorers
Kids will plant, harvest, cook, and explore how food moves from soil to table.

🛠 Thursdays (Ages 7–10) – Nature Builders
Students will build, design, and solve real-world challenges using natural materials and systems.

Spots are intentionally limited to keep the experience calm, personal, and hands-on.

👉 You can view full details and register here:
www.amysbackyardfarm.com

The Tuesday class is expected to fill quickly. If you’d like to be added to a waitlist for a possible alternate day, please let me know.

Please reach out with any questions!

I’m really looking forward to a summer of being outside, getting our hands dirty, and learning together 🌿

I walked in this morning and had to do a double take…These two hatched their chicks in separate nests yesterday.Today? O...
04/22/2026

I walked in this morning and had to do a double take…

These two hatched their chicks in separate nests yesterday.

Today? One nest. Two mamas. A whole mix of babies tucked underneath both of them.

No sorting. No fighting. Just… “these are ours now.”

A quiet reminder that connection and cooperation don’t always need to be taught… sometimes they’re simply allowed.

It’s hard not to see the lesson in it. This is the kind of real-life learning that happens here every day 💛

I had so much fun meeting my students today at our spring session open house! It’s going to be an amazing season! 🌱🐣
04/15/2026

I had so much fun meeting my students today at our spring session open house! It’s going to be an amazing season! 🌱🐣

I’d like to formally announce that productivity on the homestead has been temporarily reduced due to excessive duck cute...
04/10/2026

I’d like to formally announce that productivity on the homestead has been temporarily reduced due to excessive duck cuteness 🦆🐥

There’s something so grounding about slowing down to care for small, living things growing right in front of you 💛

Spring registration is CLOSED. Please let me know if you’d like to be added to the waitlist.Thank you so much for all of...
03/16/2026

Spring registration is CLOSED. Please let me know if you’d like to be added to the waitlist.

Thank you so much for all of the feedback helping shape summer classes on the homestead! I’d still love more input before I finalize classes next week: https://forms.gle/JwcFVh2wAUMUy9px8

Check out this cutie carefully spacing the peas we planted. Nothing sweeter than a little hands-on math in the garden 🌱

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