Daily News | After more than two years, Fox Chase Farm is open to school field trips again
Amid the pastoral noises of the goats, chickens, and cows of Fox Chase Farm, another sound rose Wednesday — the chatterAfter two-plus years of a pandemic and no student visits, the farm reopened to class tours, with dozens of children soaking in the sights, sounds, and tastes of the 112-acre farm on Pine Road in the Northeast.
Gavyn Hamilton, a third grader at Andrew Hamilton Elementary in West Philadelphia, was starry-eyed at the experience.Fox Chase Farm is owned by the city and run by the Philadelphia School District, which before COVID-19 typically had 300 students visit daily on field trips. Farm administrator Mandy Fellouzis and farmer Fernando Rodriguez and others kept things running in the years COVID-19 shut the farm to tours.
The farm bustled Wednesday, with high school students from Northeast and Lincoln High Schools learning to be tour guides and Hamilton third and fourth graders making their own apple cider, slipping stethoscopes over their ears to listen to Snickers the lop-eared rabbit’s heartbeat, and petting Oliver the pot-bellied pig.“This is such a high,” she said. “For some of the kids, they haven’t had a field trip in years. For some, it’s their very first field trip.
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