Amy's Backyard Farm
A regenerative working homestead where we grow food, raise animals, and steward the land with intention.
Amy’s Backyard Farm is a small, nature-based learning space where children explore gardening, animals, food systems, and seasonal rhythms through hands-on, experiential education in a backyard classroom setting.Led by an experienced educator and former school counselor.
🌱 Meet the Educator 🌱
I’m Amy, an educator, former school counselor, executive functioning coach, and permaculture practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience working with children.Amy’s Backyard Farm brings together my background in education, my experience homeschooling and traveling with my family, and my passion for regenerative living to create hands-on, nature-based learning experiences where children can grow, explore, and learn through doing.
🌱 Why Amy's Backyard Farm Exists 🌱
Research and lived experience both point to the same truth: children need nature.Time outdoors improves focus, emotional regulation, creativity, physical health, and overall wellbeing. More importantly, it provides something modern environments often cannot—real responsibility, real consequences, and real connection to living systems.When children care for animals, grow food, observe seasonal changes, and participate in purposeful work, they develop confidence, patience, empathy, and a strong sense of belonging in the world around them.Amy’s Backyard Farm exists to offer that experience.
🌱 What We Offer 🌱
Amy’s Backyard Farm provides small-group, nature-based learning experiences for children, including:Garden and food-based learning
Animal care and homestead exploration
Seasonal nature studies
Hands-on science and observation
Creative outdoor projectsAll programs are designed to be experiential, outdoors, and grounded in real-world learning.
🌱 Our Programs 🌱
We offer seasonal, small-group experiences designed to help children learn through doing, exploring, and participating in the rhythms of the homestead.
Tuesday: Garden-to-Table Explorers (Ages 4–7)
Tuesdays focus on the garden as a living system and the journey of food from soil to table.Children engage in hands-on gardening including planting, harvesting, and seasonal garden care. We explore food transformation through simple cooking and tasting activities like sourdough, butter making, and garden harvests, along with basic soil and worm ecology.
Wednesday: Ecology & Design Lab (Ages 7–10)
Wednesdays are designed for children ready for deeper thinking, building, and problem-solving.Students work on hands-on permaculture-inspired projects such as habitat building, shelter design, and ecological problem-solving challenges. Children explore how natural systems work together and how we can design alongside nature.
Thursday: Wild Nature Studio (Ages 4-7)
Children explore the living world of the homestead through creative expression and guided nature exploration.Each Thursday includes outdoor discovery and nature-based art as children observe seasonal changes, notice patterns in nature, and explore insects, pollinators, plants, and natural materials. Simple journaling and art activities help children slow down, observe closely, and express what they see.