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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.

10/19/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who made it out to our clean up yesterday! It was a gorgeous day to spend collecting litter, making discoveries, and learning together.
Though there was trash to be found all along the beach, it was interesting to see how much gathered where the storm drain emptied into the river. This was a very real example of the discussions we have about where our water travels.
At the end of the morning, we had made a little dent, planned to create more opportunities, and even got to enjoy the 18th century field day at Red Bank Battlefield! I’m so grateful for our wonderful families!!

10/18/2026

It was hatch week! Students have been candling the eggs they picked to watch for the last three weeks. We saw as blood vessels developed and tiny movement was detected after one week, and how dark and full the eggs were on week two, sometimes seeing a foot as the chick moved around in its tiny first home. By week three, students were able to watch as chicks emerged; seeing as they fluffed up inside the incubator. They worked together to set up a brooder box, learning about all of the chicks’ needs - food, water, shelter, and mostly importantly warmth in the first days. We helped a shrink wrapped chick under a broody mom - the sole survivor of our experiment. Students enthusiastically accepted the task of keeping chicks warm in their hoods and hands, beginning to socialize them so that our next laying hens are especially friendly. What a fun week!

09/20/2026

💧 This week at Amy’s Backyard Farm, we’ve been learning how water supports an entire ecosystem, and how everything we do on the land can eventually make its way into our waterways.

We “followed raindrops” down to Pargey Creek, a little tributary of the Delaware River, reading the land to figure out where water travels from the highest point on our property. Along the way, we talked about how chemicals, fertilizer, and trash from lawns, farms, and streets can travel through our waterways and eventually make their way all the way to the ocean.

The kids engineered their own dams and got to see firsthand just how much power water can have. They tested different substrates and discovered that covering soil helps it hold onto more water instead of letting it run off — something we put into practice here on the farm.

Our Nature Builders also finished dismantling the garden this week, making room for what will become our own wildlife pond — another way to slow and hold water on the property while creating habitat for local wildlife. 🐸🌿

And while digging a pond by hand would be…a LOT for little hands 😂, we were fortunate enough to connect with some wonderful people in our local community at Lucky Farms LLC who are going to help us with the excavation. I absolutely adore the community we are building around this little farm. ❤️

Whether you’re one of our amazing farm families or simply someone who has been following along and cheering us on, we’d love to have you join us for our Delaware River Community Cleanup on October 11th!

Come get outside, give a little back to the watershed we all share, and connect with some of the people who make our community so special. 🌎💧

08/28/2026

Our Thursday class is closed, but we still have a few spaces left in our Tuesday (ages 4-7) and Wednesday (ages 8-12) fall classes!
Register here: https://forms.gle/mEiuTGRZrh76qbbv5

08/26/2026

Our Garden to Table Explorers wrapped up their summer session by putting all of their learning together to create their own tiny ecosystems! 🌱🐛
They also harvested and prepared a beautiful, homegrown snack to share with their parents. 🥒🍅
I am so impressed by these guys and all of the growth I’ve seen in them this season. They’ve explored, experimented, gotten their hands dirty, and grown so much along the way.
What a wonderful way to wrap up our summer together! 🌿

08/23/2026

I am so proud of my Wild Makers this week. 🦉

This Eastern Screech Owl box is more than just a box. It represents weeks of learning about our ecosystem, thinking through problems, planning, and learning safe tool handling.

This week, they put all of those skills into action—working together, taking turns, helping one another, and cheering each other on as they built something meaningful for the land we learn on.

Their empathy, patience, and understanding of one another were absolutely beautiful to watch. And the box turned out wonderfully!

08/07/2026

🌱 Our summer students have been part of something really special.

At Amy’s Backyard Farm, we’re building more than a garden.

As a regenerative homestead, we’re constantly working toward a living, interconnected system — one that gives back more than it takes. As we grow more food, native plants, pollinator attractors, and culinary and medicinal herbs, and choose not to spray our plants with chemicals, we’re also creating a place where more life can thrive.

And that means sometimes the bugs thrive, too. 😂

This summer, our students have been investigating high populations of potato beetles and Japanese beetles, along with voles, mice, and all of the other creatures who have discovered that our homestead is a pretty great place to live.

Gardening can be frustrating when something eats the plant you worked so hard to grow. But instead of seeing those moments as problems to simply get rid of, we use them as opportunities to ask:

What is happening here? What does this creature need? What needs to change? And how can we steward this land without disrupting the whole system?

Because ecosystems are messy. They’re complicated. And they are rarely a smooth path.

That’s where the real learning happens.

This week, our Wild Makers brought their habitat and food-web learning full circle as we began construction on Eastern Screech-Owl nesting boxes — a project designed to encourage these incredible birds of prey to become part of our little ecosystem. They learned how to safely and appropriately use real tools, and used observation skills to identify ideal locations for eastern screech owls to thrive. These life skills will be put into action next class as we work together to assemble the boxes.

And our Nature Builders wrapped up the planning phase of their wildlife pond project.

They didn’t just get handed a pond design.

They assessed the needs of the land.
They read the landscape to determine where a pond could thrive and provide the best habitat.
They measured. Mapped. Tested soil.
They researched plants that can naturally help filter water and the animals that can become part of the pond’s cleanup crew.
They figured out what materials we already have and created a budget-friendly shopping list for what we still need.

And next class we break ground 🐸

These are just a couple examples of what learning looks like at Amy’s Backyard Farm.

Our kids aren’t simply being told about ecosystems, biodiversity, wildlife, or sustainability.

They’re observing, questioning, designing, problem-solving, researching, building, making decisions, working together, and seeing the consequences of those decisions unfold in a real, living system.

And sometimes they get muddy along the way.

This is the kind of learning kids remember.

The kind where a beetle becomes a science investigation.
A pile of dirt becomes a pond.
A bird box becomes a lesson in habitat.
And a garden becomes a living classroom.

🌱 If you’ve been looking for an outdoor learning experience where your child can actually DO the learning, we’d love to have you join us.

We have limited openings for our fall semester at Amy’s Backyard Farm. Send me a message or comment “INFO” and I’ll send you the details!

07/30/2026

🍂 Fall homeschool registration is now open!

If your child loves being outside, asking questions, making discoveries, building, gardening, and learning by doing, we’d love to have you join us this fall at Amy’s Backyard Farm!

Our classes are small, hands-on, and rooted in real experiences. We spend our mornings exploring the garden, caring for animals, building habitats, solving problems, cooking with what we grow, and discovering how nature works — all while giving children plenty of room for curiosity, creativity, and play.

Tuesdays (9:00 AM–12:00 PM): Garden-to-Table Explorers (Ages 4–6)
Young learners discover where food comes from through gardening, harvesting, simple cooking, soil exploration, worms, and seasonal farm projects.

Wednesdays (9:00 AM–12:00 PM): Nature Builders (Ages 8–12)
For older children ready for bigger challenges, we’ll tackle permaculture-inspired projects, habitat building, ecological design, engineering, and hands-on problem solving.

Thursdays (9:00 AM–12:00 PM): Wild Makers (Ages 5–8)
A blend of gardening, nature exploration, building, animal care, cooking, and homestead skills for children ready for a little more independence and collaboration.

📅 Fall semester begins the week after Labor Day and runs through the week before Thanksgiving.

Full details are available at www.amysbackyardfarm.com and registration is available here: https://forms.gle/crj5pfcekj1inSif6

🍁 I’m also considering opening an after-school Wednesday session this fall. If you are interested, please reach out. I’d love to hear from you!

07/21/2026

A snapshot of Week 1 of Summer Classes at Amy’s Backyard Farm! 🌱🐛

After taking June off to tackle projects, travel, and prepare for summer, it feels so good to have the farm buzzing with curious kids again.

This week was full of soil, worms, bugs, discoveries, muddy hands, and a few challenges that turned into great learning opportunities. Every day reminded me why I love creating these experiences.

Looking forward to seeing what Week 2 brings! 💚

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!

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Mickleton, NJ

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+18565622545

Website

http://www.amysbackyardfarm.com/

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