Registration for Garfied Farm Museum camp available

Submitted by Garfield Farm Museum

There’s still time to sign for Farm Camp at Garfield Farm Museum. The first session runs from Tuesday to Thursday, July 10-12. The third session runs from Tuesday to Thursday, July 24-26. Both sessions are for children ages 8 to 11. They start at 9 a.m. and end at noon each day. The second session is for older children ages 12 to 15 and takes place Wednesday and Thursday, July 18-19. It runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $75 per session. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the museum at (630) 584-8485 or emailing to info@garfieldfarm.org.

During the camps, children will experience farm life through guided tours of the museum’s historic barns and 1846 brick inn. They will begin each day by helping to feed the chickens, turkeys, sheep, hogs and oxen. The children will also take part in hands-on activities and witness demonstrations of everyday activities such as blacksmithing, contra dancing, corn shelling, hearthside cooking, flailing wheat, gathering eggs, playing period games, driving oxen, scrubbing laundry and vegetable gardening.

Garfield Farm Museum is a 370-acre historically intact former 1840s prairie farmstead and teamster inn that volunteers and donors are preserving as an 1840s living history museum. The museum is off Route 38 on Garfield Road, five miles west of Geneva.