The Nature Center and Farm has a new name — same great mission.
In our gardening homeschool program, students will plant their own garden bed in our beautiful Teaching Garden at Herff Farm and learn core academic skills while also learning about organic gardening techniques, culinary and medicinal uses of plants, food systems, and plant and soil biology.
Please contact nature@cibolo.org or call 830-249-4616.
Wednesday Class: February 24th –May 6th (No class week of Spring Break)
Thursday Class: February 25th –May 6th (No class week of Spring Break)
View the Spring 2021 Course Syllabus here.
Pricing: $150 per 10-week class per child. $100 per additional child in the same family.
Limited to a small number of families per day. COVID-19 safety requirements are in place, and masks or face coverings on participants ages ten and up within 6 feet of one another are required by state mandate. To learn more about our COVID-19 safety requirements, please review our practices here.
Get ready to get your hands dirty, get some sunshine in the open air, and learn how to grow food, flowers, and herbs. Our homeschool classes combine academic with hands-on gardening at the historic Herff Farm. Each week will include a garden-based lesson with Maura Bobbitt, our Farm Programs Coordinator, and time to garden in your own 4’ x 20’ adopted garden bed, supported by our farm staff.
Organic gardening and sustainable living means understanding our place within the larger ecosystem, and so we’ll cover a wide range of topics such as soil and plant biology, organic gardening methods, garden design and planning, decomposers and composting, and culinary and medicinal uses of the plants we grow. Course tuition includes an opportunity to sell products you have grown at the Farmers Market at Herff Farm.
Note that a parent or caregiver will stay for the program since this course is designed for family participation. For more details, see the course syllabus here.
Our homeschool programs can serve children ages 4-18. These classes are highly customizable, and are designed to engage children, teenagers, and parents as well.
One parent or guardian is required to stay for the duration of the class, so please plan to come learn as a family.
Your tuition covers a place in the class for each member of your family, a 4’x20’ irrigated garden bed at Herff Farm, a seasonal selection of transplants and seeds to plant in your beds, and all additional supplies for exciting projects like growing your own oyster mushrooms and starting your own worm compost.