It's Strawberry Picking Time - Spring Field Trips

Chiles Peach Orchard in Crozet, Virginia would like to invite your pre-school, day-care, or home school group to join us this spring for a hands-on, educational, strawberry picking experience. Chiles Peach Orchard is a family owned and operated orchard. During your trip to the strawberry patch, you and your students will learn about pollination, irrigation, and harvesting on a working farm. You will pick fresh and juicy strawberries right from the patch. Nothing tastes better than the fruit you pick with your own hands. You will enjoy a scenic wagon ride in the orchard, have an educational story time, and finish the trip off with a refreshing sample cup of frozen strawberry yogurt!

Our objective is to provide an enjoyable and educational environment for children to learn about the life cycle of the strawberry in an age-appropriate format. The entire experience will take approximately 1 1/2 hours.  If you plan to have a picnic lunch, please allow additional time. Picnic tables are available on a first-come, first-served basis.   

Before you leave, stop in our new farm market for fresh veggies, jams and jellies, crafts, snacks, and more.
We welcome group of all sizes (groups of less than 10 will be scheduled to combine with other groups.)

Tours components include:  $6.00 per person (children and adults)

• Story Time
  
• Hayride  
  
• Pick Your Own Strawberries (pint containers provided)
  
• Coloring Books and Teacher’s Packet
  
• Sample Size Strawberry Yogurt for each participant

Story Time (Our Educational Presentation):   
Your group or class will be able participate in the simplified life cycle story of the strawberry.  This story time is geared to preschool age children.  The children will have the opportunity to assist the story teller with hands- on activities.    We will then show them which strawberries are ready to pick, and the best way to pick the fruit to prevent damage to the berry or plant.   

Hayride: 
Your group will take a hayride through the orchard to the strawberry patch where you will be able to pick your own pint of strawberries.

Coloring Book and Teachers Packet: 
Each group or class will be given coloring books about the strawberry patch, along with the Teacher Resource link on our web page for additional coloring pages, fun facts, and recipes to download.

Parents and siblings are welcome with your group, and will be the same fee as the student. This guarantees them a seat on the wagon ride and a pint container to pick fruit. There is no charge for non-participating children under the age of 2.  Please collect all fees in advance, so that you are presenting just one payment for the entire group. This will greatly speed up the check in process and keep your group on schedule.

Arrival and Payment:  
BEST ADVICE:  Arrive at Chiles Peach Orchard 15 minutes early. Please keep in mind the time it takes to assemble your group. On-time arrival is extremely important for maximum enjoyment by everyone! If your group is late, we will go onto the next group and try to get your group in at the next possible opening. We reserve the right to combine your group with others if group size, time constraints, etc. warrant it.

Payment is due upon arrival by one designated leader per group. A single payment covering the entire group is preferred and can be in the forms of MasterCard, Visa, or a check payable to Chiles Peach Orchard. Please bring your payment along with your completed confirmation sheet. We are happy to provide you with a receipt for your records.

Before Your Trip: