Field Trips

The Environmental Education Field Trips at Elkus Ranch provide hands-on opportunities to learn about the production of food and fiber, the inter-relationships of plants and animals in their natural habitats, and the importance of environmental stewardship.

Our Ranch Tours focus on experiential learning about animals and the environment.

Students can get up close with our friendly livestock animals.

While brushing a goat, meeting a chicken, or exploring our bone and fossil collections in our historic barn, students learn about adaptations, predator/prey relationships and food chains.

Students are able to taste fresh produce from our gardens.

In the garden, students learn about the functions of roots, stems, and leaves and get to plant their own seedling to take home with them. 

While visiting the garden, students are able to taste different parts of seasonal plants, identify pollinators, and learn about seed dispersal and composting. 

Feeding our flock of sheep is always a highlight!

Students are able to meet our flock of sheep and learn how wool is spun into yarn. Explanations of natural dyeing, carding, and spinning wool encourages students to consider where their clothing comes from.

The Ranch field trip tours run from 10am to 1pm, unless otherwise arranged.

Up to three classes can participate in a field trip at the same time. Classes can arrive as early as 9am for students to have bio-breaks and start their snack before their program begins. 

Students will have time before the tour to eat their snack and a lunch break after the tour before their 1pm departure.

For more information click here or to make a reservation please contact our Ranch Coordinator | (650) 712-3151 or elkusranch@ucanr.edu

coming soon...To make a Field Trip reservation for any grade preschool through grade 12, please fill out this form to start the process.