Field Trips | messner-bee-farm
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Classes / Field Trips

Scheduled Field Trips

Schools, Scouts, or Multi-Family

For Children ages 4-16

Topics

  • Honeybees

  • Beekeeping

  • Pollination

  • Call to action!

What you can to expect to experience and learn

  • Experience hands on activities and show-and-tell equipment

  • Engage the senses: Taste honey, smell beeswax and touch pollen

  • Learn the science behind honeybees and their colony

  • Understand the relationship between humans, honeybees and our food web

  • "Bee" inspired by the importance of pollinators in the earths's ecosystem

Cost

1.5 hour Field Trip

  • Recommended for ages 11-16

  • Base Price: Up to 15 students: $140 +tax

  • Additional students (25 max per class): $7.00 each +tax

  • Includes a trip to the bee yard to see live bees! Weather permitting.

  • Teachers, support staff, parents: Free

 

60 minute Field Trip

  • Recommended for ages 7-11

  • Base Price: Up to 10 students: $80 +tax

  • Additional students (20 max per class): $7.00 each +tax

  • Includes a trip to the bee yard to see a hive set up (no live bees inside)

  • Teachers, support staff, parents: Free

 

30 minute Field Trip

  • Recommended for ages 4-6

  • Base Price: Up to 10 students: $55 +tax

  • Additional students (15 max per class): $5.50 each +tax

  • Topics are brief and summarized for a younger audience

  • Teachers, support staff, parents: Free


A $50 deposit is required at the time of booking

All who attend must sign a waiver even if they are not visiting the bee yard.

Children must be accompanied by the appropriate number of adults (teachers/parents)

Schedule/Contact

To schedule a tour

Email: keepers@messnerbeefarm.com

Subject: TOURS - "Your Organization Name"

Body: Include age of children, number of children,desired length of field trip


 

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We are not doing field trips or classes in 2023.

If you'd like to be put on our wait list for next year please email keepers@messnerbeefarm.com.
Thank you!

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