130 Main St, Buffalo,
NY 14202
Follow your food from farm to table! On our farm you can plant, grow and harvest your crops, as well as care for a milking cow and some chickens. Load your produce onto a small-scale huckster truck and sell it at the farmer’s market. If all that work builds up your appetite, cook your farm-fresh finds in our farmhouse play kitchen.
Exhibit Features
The Barn
Betty Lou Moo presented by Upstate Farms & Milk For Health
Put on your boots and get to work in our miniature dairy. Milk the cow and discover all the amazing foods that come from milk.
Farmer’s Market
Buy and sell fresh produce
See what’s fresh! You can be the seller or the buyer in this year-round pretend farmer’s market, where everything is always in season.
Farmhouse Kitchen
Presented by Maureen O. & John J. Hurley
Take turns cooking, serving, and eating the pretend food.
Hoop House and Crop Beds
Chickens and Chicken Coop presented by Camp Good Days & Special Times
Pick your own crops straight off of the plants and discover how food grows. These crops showcase produce that thrives in our climate and how different types of produce grow differently. Also, collect fresh eggs from our chicken coop!
NYS Early Learning Guideline
Farm-to-Fork is where children and adults broaden their familiarity with the source of many foods they eat, follow food production and distribution from seed to feed of familiar foods and relate food, flavors, and aroma with products, meals, and dishes available in markets, at home, and in cafes.
Primary Learning Domain: Fostering a sense of community and culture.
Secondary Learning Domains: Exploring STEM concepts through hands-on experimentation and developing socially and emotionally through interactions with peers and adults.
Social & Emotional Development
- Interaction with Adults All Ages
- Interaction with Peers Ages 1+
- Adaptive Social Behavior Ages 1+
Community & Culture
- Family Ages 1+
- Civic Responsibility Ages 3+
- Community Ages 5+
STEM
- Scientific Thinking Ages 1+
- Technology Ages 1+
- Ecology Ages 3+
- Measurement Ages 5+
Arts/Arts Appreciation
- Expression & Representation Ages 3+
Physical Well-Being, Health & Motor Development
- Sensorimotor All Ages
- Gross Motor All Ages
- Daily Living Skills Ages 1+
- Nutrition Ages 1+
