Amy's Backyard Farm

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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.

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!

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.” 💛

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.

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Mickleton, NJ

Telephone

+18565622545

Website

http://www.amysbackyardfarm.com/

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