2026 Farm Field Trips

Bring your class/ club to Common Good for a unique opportunity to see an urban farm in action! What will you see and do? Field trip topics include: plant needs, composting, vegetable harvesting, insects and pollinators, food justice and nutrition. Students are engaged in hands on activities on the farm in order to reinforce learning. Tasks and activities will differ for different age groups. Field trips can be tailored to specific class requests and the material covered meets DCPS standards. When can I come? Field trips are 1.5 hours long and are held from April through early November on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Choose your start time during checkout. Field trips can begin from 9am-10:30 am, whatever works best with your schedule. Please note that when choosing your date, you will need to click on the 9:00 button, but later in checkout you can specify a different time! How many kids/ classes can come on the field trip? We can accommodate a maximum of 30 students for a single-class field trip. For larger groups or the option to bring two classes on the same day, we provide a split field trip arrangement. This involves one group spending time on the farm while the other enjoys the adjacent park playground with school chaperones, and then they switch. Each group will have a one-hour farm visit, resulting in a full visit time of 2 hours from the selected start time. What are the costs? Our fee is $300 per visit for a single class or $350 for the two-class split visit option. To enhance accessibility, we are able to reduce the fee by half to all Title 1 schools. If your group isn't a school, but the majority of your students attend institutions that would qualify, you may still be eligible for a reduced rate field trip. Registration allows for full payment or a $50 deposit to hold your date. Schools are responsible for arranging their own transport to the farm, which is accessible via Metro (Shaw-Howard stop) and several Metro bus routes. For any questions, or if you wish to discuss your school's specific needs, please contact [email protected] FAQs My program/ camp/ club isn't associated with a specific school, how do I know what rate we pay? We are happy to take groups from summer camps and other organizations that may not be a traditional classroom. We can work with your group details to assess an appropriate fee or determine whether you may qualify for a reduced rate field trip. Do you take field trips on dates that are not listed? We are happy to work with you to find other date and time options. Due to other programming on the farm, this is not always possible but we will try to make it work. Reach out to [email protected] to check our schedule. What is the rain/ bad weather policy? If weather conditions are dangerous, then we will cancel and do our best to find a time that works to reschedule. If not dangerous, but just rainy or cold, we will defer to the group on whether they would like to come in the predicted weather or aim to reschedule.