We went on a Thursday during the day with the PreK4 and 5th grade class from her school and we just drove separate and met them there.
The drive was scenic, my GPS took me through the backroads from Adams, TN to their location. The drive took a little longer than expected, around 50 minutes from just outside of Elkton.
Honestly, I was a little concerned when I pulled in a little after 10 am. Our tour was to start around 10:30 and there was a huge line of busses waiting to get in. I really thought this was going to be chaos.
But even with all the Nashville and Clarksville busses, they unloaded everyone pretty quickly and started our tour promptly when we were supposed to and by that time the other folks were already on their way at the farm so it was a very manageable amount of people in our "group."
For the school tours they seem to keep everything pretty well timed out and moving forward, so their organization is a plus! You can tell they've done this a few times.
Our first stop was the barn to learn a little about how pumpkins grow, how bumble bees help the pumpkins grow etc. Long enough to learn a little something but not to long to lose their attention.
Next up for our group was the petting zoo area. It was spread out well so you didn't feel crowded. There was the typical goats, chickens, cows, rabbits, etc. Not really all that much "petting" going on but they did have several "milk a cow" simulators set up. My daughter found this especially fun!
Then we were escorted over to the area where you took the "hay ride" out to the pumpkin patch. No hay on our ride, but the kids always love the wagon ride regardless. It was nice that there were people there assisting you up into the wagon and out of it on each end.
The pumpkin patch was what I've come to expect now at these places......what was a pumpkin field now has pound size pumpkins scatter around for the kids to go through and pick their out. I know that's how it has to be done but as a farm kid myself, I'd like to actually pick a pumpkin off a vine sometime!
The kids wandered around, picked their pumpkin and headed back on the wagon.
Up next for us was lunch under the pavilion. This was probably the only time that it felt crowded, but school children all want to eat at the same time, so that's not really surprising, but we found tables for her class and they ate their lunches.
I felt like it would have been nice if there were more bathrooms, even porta potties. One set of bathrooms were out of order and the others only had like 4 stalls and they were being over worked with the amount of kids there that day. That would probably be my biggest complaint of all though and we made it work.
After lunch our group had free time to run around and play on their various activities. They had 2 huge bouncer "blobs"? Either way, they held a ton of kids and they loved them! We also hit up the Tire Fort, Huge Sand Box with fun excavating toys, the hay maze and big slides and swings.
I know they had zip lines and a few other bigger kid attractions but with 4 year olds, we stuck to the smaller stuff.
They had a nice store with some goodies to take home like fudge, popcorn, etc.
Everything was clean, organized and other than lunch at the pavilion, it never felt over crowded.
I have no idea how it would be on a weekend, but especially for a field trip, we were all very impressed.
The staff was knowledgeable and friendly and made for a really nice day on the farm!
Honeysuckle Hill Website HERE.
Honeysuckle Hill Facebook page HERE.
Price is $10.95 per person with the exception of those 2 and under, they are free.
Tips:
Don't get in a hurry, allow plenty of time to enjoy it all
Wear comfy clothes and shoes
Take extra cash for some of the extras like animal feed and pumpkin chunckin'
Have your camera ready
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