Accokeek MD – The Alice Ferguson Foundation is offering a variety of engaging hands-on outdoor programs this fall, including interactive activities for small groups, families, and young children at its historic farm and environmental campus.
“With most of our area schools switching to online learning, it’s more important than ever for kids and families to spend time outdoors, exploring and learning about the world beyond their computer screen,” said Theresa Cullen, Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Executive Director. “We’re eager to welcome students and their families back to Hard Bargain Farm to enjoy our fun, outdoor, and socially distant activities.”
New educational programs include:
- Nature Nut Wednesdays, an outdoor play pod and enrichment program for early childhood and elementary-age students, filled with outdoor adventures, laughter, and learning. Featuring five-weeks sessions in the morning or afternoon.
- Small Group and Family Visits, to visit with the barnyard animals, explore the wetlands and woods with a nature hike or birdwalk, or discover where food comes from as you learn about farming and agriculture at our 1930’s era working farm.
- And more…
The Alice Ferguson Foundation is following the best health safety practices from local health authorities, school officials and Center for Disease Control and Prevention in implementing all of its on-site programming. The Alice Ferguson Foundation will also be engaging schools and students in science-based learning through its virtual field trips and online academic programs. Learn more about Alice Ferguson Foundation’s school virtual program offerings here.
For more than 65 years, the Alice Ferguson Foundation has shared the wonder and excitement of outdoor hands-on learning with students and residents of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. Located on 330 acres of working farmland, emergent wetlands, and the longest, freshwater Living Shoreline in the nation, the staff and educators of Alice Ferguson Foundation have provided transformative environmental education experiences for nearly half a million area students since 1954. Alice Ferguson Foundation’s team of educators are a critical provider of equitable access to learning that builds environmental literacy skills and connects over 8,000 students to the wonders of their local watershed, and their role in stewarding it.
Learn more at old-ferguson.lndo.site.