Welcome to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm!
We don't feel we've had a good harvest unless every family leaves with smiles on their faces, pleasant farm memories in their heads, and a little dirt in their shoes!
- 2 reviews of Bishop's Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland
The Hamburger Farm
Open May 2-May 20, 2011
Spring Tour
Cost: $10 per person*
Everything in your favorite hamburger comes from the farm!
This special educational program provides a guided tour of a farm that grows all the crops needed for a hamburger. Even the farm is shaped like a hamburger!
Hands on activities include:
- grinding wheat into flour
- digging potatoes and slicing them into French fries
- milking a “cow” to get milk for cheese
Teachers- The Hamburger Farm will be opening for its tenth season in May 2nd-May 20th, 2011.
Reservations for your class field trip are a must and will be taken anytime. Tours can normally be scheduled to start between 9:15 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Scheduled activities last about 2½ hours. For afterschool groups or clubs, we will be giving afternoon tours on May 13th, 2011, only.
Click here to submit your request now online!
We will provide you with the perfect spring field trip, combining equal parts of learning and fun.
The Bishop’s have hosted hundreds of thousands of preschool through first graders at the pumpkin farm since the fall of 1973. Spring field trips to The Hamburger Farm have drawn rave reviews from educators since its first season in 2001.
Your trip to the farm will include the following:
- Ride on the Bishop’s Pumpkin Farm Railroad to and from the Hamburger Farm site
- Guided tour of a farm that grows all crops needed for a hamburger-
- including hands on activities such as grinding wheat into flour
- digging potatoes and slicing them into French fries
- milking a “cow” to get milk for cheese.
- In addition to information on each crop, discussion topics will include: “good” and “bad” insects; and amounts of water needed to “grow” a hamburger.
- Self guided tour of Weeland petting zoo and the farm animals who live there
- Play time in Farmer Bill’s Barn, the Tree House, or Coyote Mountain Mine
- Nutritious hamburger picnic (meets school lunch requirements)
- Hamburger Farm themed Classroom materials will be provided for follow-up lessons. You will be able to use the farm experience to teach lessons across the curriculum.
*Cost: $10 per person for all members of your group. One teacher and one other adult per class and siblings under two are free. Payment must be made upon check-in in the form of a check or school purchase order. Minimum group size is fifteen.
Teachers, you will need to do the following:
1. Make a reservation online (click here)
or call (530) 633-4392 --FAX 530-633-9538.
Don’t wait too long as space will be limited.
2. Collect $10 for each student, parent, or sibling who will be on the trip.
3. Have check or purchase order ready and be sure to check in at your reserved time (please ask us about travel times when you make your reservation)
4. Be sure your parent chaperones know that our Gift Shop will be open and Mrs. B’s Country Bakery will be featuring spring fruit pies!
Teachers: Please Click Here for Important Information You Should Read.