Fall Tour Activity Options

Be sure to take a look at our ‘Classroom in the Corn’ lesson plans & educational teacher materials that are available for you to use after your VonThun Farms School Tour!

***To make an online Tour reservation, CLICK HERE***

Package A: The “Traditional” Farm Tour

$6.50 per student & $6.50 per chaperone
This is the basic farm tour, described on our Tours page, that we have successfully presented to many school groups for well over 20 years now!

**NEW FOR FALL 2012!!**
Package X: The “EXpress” Farm Tour

$6.00 per student & $6.00 per chaperone
This tour is designed for the schools & classes that don’t have time for the little extras that our tours offer.  Tour length is approximately 45 minutes.  Students will recieve a tractor drawn hayride around the farm (with short educational stops along the way), and visit the pumpkin patch to pick a sugar pumpkin.  All students will receive a farm magnet & coloring book.  This tour DOES NOT include meeting our farm animals.  We’re sorry, but our picnic area and additional tour packages CANNOT be added to this tour.

Package B: The “Corn Maze” Farm Tour

$9.50 per student & $9.50 per chaperone
After taking part in our Traditional tour, students will have a wonderful time finding their way through our ever popular Corn Maze.  The MAiZE is interactive…there’s no doubt you’ll be lost, laughin’ and lovin’ it!!

Package C: The “Activity” Farm Tour

$10.50 per student & $8.50 per chaperone
Your students will love this exciting package.  After they have enjoyed their Traditional tour, students will have a blast riding John Deere tricycles through our pedal course, lots of bouncing fun in our inflatable moon bounce … and will really enjoy trying to find their way out of our straw maze!

Package D: The “Ultimate” Farm Tour

$12.50 per student & $9.50 per chaperone
Combine our three farm tour packages into one and the fun and excitement will never end! With this package, students will take part in all our farm activities…our Traditional farm tour, straw maze, pedal course, moon bounce and corn maze.

Package E: The Dairy Goat Milking Demonstration

$2 per student and $2 per chaperone.
This package must be added to one of our other packages. Your students will learn, from start to finish, how goats are milked. Hear about care and handling of these dairy animals and what it takes for them to produce the milk they give.
This package is only available during the last week in September and the first week in October.

Package F: Apple Picking Package

$3 per student and $3 per chaperone

This package must be added to one of our other packages. Your students will learn about selecting (and enjoy picking) the freshest apples, right from the orchard!
This package is only available during the last week in September and the first week in October.

NEW FOR 2011!!!
Package G: The Barnyard Chicken Show Package

$1 per student and $1 per chaperone
This exciting new package is a must for all school groups!! This one-of-a-kind singing chicken show is guaranteed to become a favorite among our school groups! This package is not available alone, it must be added to one of our other basic tour packages. Your students will learn all about chickens through this ‘Ag In The Classroom’  interactive sing-along program.
CLICK HERE for more Barnyard Chicken Show info

Package M: The MAiZE Package

$8 per student and $8 per chaperone
Five plus acres of twists, turns, and interactive fun that will challenge you ’til the end!  Your students will thoroughly enjoy this year’s corn maze, outlined to celebrate Rutgers Football.  This package does not include our Traditional Farm Tour, it is the MAiZE only.

BACK FOR 2011!!!
Package P: The Potato Harvesting Package

$3 per student and $3 per chaperone
This package must be added to one of our other packages. Your students will learn about how potatoes grow and enjoy harvesting the freshest potatoes, right from the field!
This package is only available while we still have potatoes to harvest!

To make an online-reservation, click here.