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Harvest offers a handful of classes that are not only fun but educational. We want to help our community build greater self-sufficiency. Our classes are family-oriented and empowering! We offer youth enrichment, community outreach, and adult education classes.
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Homemade Classes
Join Gritty Farm Girl, Gina Walker, and Harvest for some treats and a lesson on how to be more self-sustainable through homesteading skills.
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Couples Cooking Classes
Have a romantic night at Harvest with your significant other and learn how to make a dish from scratch! (Minimum of 3 couples )
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Children's Gardening Club
Here at Harvest, every first and third Saturday is dedicated to a lesson led by the Brazoria County Master Gardeners. All are welcome to come and learn about the skills of gardening. Children can look forward to becoming certified Junior Master Gardeners! The master gardeners love to teach people of all ages how to maintain a bountiful garden. (9:30 - 11 am / 11 am - 12 pm Q&A)
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Mommy & Me
All family members are welcome to our Mommy and Me community event. We offer open sensory time for the little ones and a coffee bar for the grown-ups to enjoy together. With fun crafts and a good snack, it is always a fun and relaxing time! Wednesday (10-11 am open play time/ 11 am -12 pm Family craft activity) Classes will start again the week of September 16th, 2024.
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Weekday Enrichment
Join us in serving our homeschool community with education in life, environment, agriculture, and food science. Tuesday from 2-3:30 pm we learn a fun science or art lesson that goes along with the season. (Taught by TEA-certified science teacher, Harvest staff member, and volunteers.) Classes will start again the week of September 16th, 2024.
Thanksgiving Break
Happy Thanksgiving! We will not have any events this week, but you should join us in volunteering locally this holiday.
Homemade Class
For this months homemade class we will be demonstrating how to make pie from scratch. This way you can take your new skills and make pies like never before for Thanksgiving. Join us for a fun educational time with good food and good company.
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Mommy & Me
This week we will be starting off with 30 to 45 minutes of play-time. After that we will be reading “a carrot seed” and we will measure the sunflowers again. For our snack we will be serving Vermont Maple Tarts.
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Weekday Enrichment
This week we will be working in the kitchen, so safety first. Have you heard of Molecular gastronomy? Well that is what we will be exploring with the kids, come learn how to cook using chemistry, physics, and biology in ways that manipulate the physical and chemical processes.
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Cottage Market
It’s time! Our annual Fall festival, paired with the SPCA of Brazoria County, is back. We will have the SPCA vaccine clinic, pet art, hay rides around the farm, plenty of vendors to visit, and an art show presented by our children who attend our weekday enrichment classes. We would love to see you there and hope you check out our new pantry items!
Mommy & Me
This week we will be starting off with 30 to 45 minutes of play-time. After play-time we will be reading stone soup. For our activity we will be prepping, cooking, and serving stone soup.
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Weekday Enrichment
For this weeks art enrichment we will be having the kids brainstorm what they want to call their art collection from this season along with finishing up some of the pieces.
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Mommy & Me
Mommy & Me will start with 45 minutes of playtime for the kids. Then, we will read “The Reason for a Flower.” To continue our celebration of Mexican culture, we will serve Pumpkin Empanadas.
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Weekday Enrichment
This week we will be celebrating Mexican and Aboriginal Indigenous Art with Huichol Yarn art. The children will be encouraged to share family, community, and friend experiences though “yarning” story telling activity.
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Canning Party
We will be canning apple and pumpkin butter, each person will be making a batch and they will take one can of apple and one can of pumpkin butter home. The rest we will be selling at our cottage market so tell your friends and family to stop by and by your creation!
Olin Fish to Feed Tournament
Our lake will be open to fish for the Olin Fish to Feed Tournament. Harvest will be open our normal hours from 9 am - 5 pm for participent’s to fish.
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Mommy & Me
Mommy & Me will start with 45 minutes of playtime for the kids. Then we will read “A seed is sleepy” and talk about plant responses and cycles. The snack will be lemon poppy seed muffins.
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Weekday Enrichment
This week we are celebrating Vietnamese tradition with the creation of paper lanterns and planting a moon garden.
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Open Volunteer Day
Join us out on the farm!
We have all kinds of volunteer opportunities and could always use a helping hand.
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Homemade Class
We will be exploring restorative art such as slow-stitching, textual painting, kintsugi, and more, at a slow, open-ended pace. This months class is designed to protect time for you to unwind with relaxing sensory arts. We all need this, especially this time of year. Class includes all supply for art activities, meal & drink slow-food style, and some story telling.
Mommy & Me
Mommy & me will start with 45 minutes of playtime for the kids. Then we will read “Eating the Alphabet” and making fruit and veggie collages. We will be serving A - Z foods.
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Weekday Enrichment
This week we are celebrating East Asian Art in Calligraphy and ink wash by using Pen and ink on fruit tree illustrations.
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Mommy & Me
Mommy & Me will start with 45 minutes of play time for the kids. Then we will be reading “ planting a rainbow” and dissecting flowers to identify their part from last weeks activity. This week we will be serving Degue for a African snack.
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Weekday Enrichment
We will be celebrating West African Art with creating shadow photography.
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Open Volunteer Day
No matter what your trait is we could use your help out on the farm. Come explore our land and help us maintain its glory.
Mommy & Me
Mommy & me will start off with 45 minutes of play time for the kids. Then we will be reading “Tiny Seed” to them and explaining the parts of a plant while they eat, the snack will be fried bread to celebrate the Navajo culture.
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Weekday Enrichment
This class is celebrating Navajo tradition of painting landscapes with colored sand.
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Homemade Class
This Homemade class we will be:
Exploring restorative art such as slow stitch, textual painting, Kintsugi, and more. At a slow open-ended pace this month’s class is designed to protect time for you to unwind with relaxing sensory art. We all need this especially this time a year.
Class includes all supply for art activities, drinks & food - slow food style and some story telling.
Mommy & Me
“ How a seed grows”
We will be serving energy and melon balls this week
Join us in a fun community event.
Weekday Enrichment
This week we will be working on Poet-tree. We hope to see you all there for a fun educational time.
Open Volunteer Day
We would love for our community to be a bigger part of our farm by coming and getting their hands a little dirty. Come help us plant seed, harvest, can goods, and many more opportunities.
Mommy & Me
“ from seed to plant”
we will work with wall sensory to accompany our wall art theme this week.
for a snack, we will be having brown rice and honey pudding.
Weekday Enrichment
We are excited to start off our fall school schedule.
This week we will be attempting live wall art. We are ecstatic to see all of our children learning and having fun this fall.
Mommy & Me
Join us for a fun evening with other families. Within the first hour, we let the kids play in our sensory play area while the adults chat and drink coffee. In the final hour, we have a snack and then it is free time to play in the garden sandbox or play upstairs.
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Weekday Enrichment
Children’s Garden craft
Lets have some fun in the sun and do some crafts with natural items.
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