Tours
Each year, nearly 3,000 students from D.C. area schools visit the National Colonial Farm for an unique outdoor-classroom experience. Specialty tours are also available for adult groups, homeschoolers, and other youth organizations.
Stewardship
The Center for Agricultural and Environmental Stewardship was created to teach and inspire people to use principles and practices of sustainability in agriculture and everyday life.
Colonial History
The National Colonial Farm, an outdoor living history museum, depicts life for an ordinary family in Prince George's County in the 1770s. The site is open to the public Tuesday - Sunday, from 10 am to 4 pm, and admission is free.
Blog Posts
Appreciating the Ordinary: Deer and Geese in Piscataway Park
The bright rump of a white-tailed deer, the snow white chinstrap of a Canada goose: both are common sites in Piscataway Park, present here year-round. Even when the animals … [more]
What’s Going on with the Tobacco Barn?
Have you been to the farm lately? What’s going on with the Tobacco Barn? If you have walked around the National Colonial Farm lately--perhaps during last weekend's … [more]
“For My Mom”
by Sky Harman, Farm Apprentice She likes flowers. She likes good food. She likes pretty things. She likes to be with her children and grandchildren, but we live far away. … [more]
