Events
Farm Events
Deer Hollow Farm hosts fun events for families, year-round.
Admission for all events: $7. Cash, checks or credit cards. Kids under 1 are free!
2024 Spring Farm Tours: April 6 and April 27 @ 10 am
Visit Deer Hollow Farm’s new farm babies. Meet the new lambs and goat kids, as well as the cow, pigs, chickens, rabbits, ducks, goose, sheep and goats. Spend some quality time on one of the last remaining homestead farms in the Bay Area.
- Walk through century-old farm buildings, a large organic garden and orchard, and learn what daily life was like just 160 years ago, when most Americans lived on homestead farms like Deer Hollow Farm.
- Enjoy the fun, interactive activities and hands-on-learning in the Farm’s Nature Center.
- Plant a bean to take home and enjoy refreshments in the Hay Barn.
Docents will be stationed in the animal pens, explaining animal care and what life was like on a homestead farm.
Note that groups of 20 or more are not permitted.
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Tots classes at Deer Hollow Farm
2024 Spooky Times at Deer Halloween: TBA
Deer Hollow Farm invites you to celebrate the spooky spirit of Halloween!
Explore haunted barns, try your hand at children’s activities and crafts and of course, meet the animal residents of the Farm.
Enjoy the Halloween season and help support the Farm. As always, all profits go directly to livestock care and feed.
Admission is $7. Come in costume, admission is only $5! 1 and under are free.
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A week-long day camp for children ages 6-14, activities include livestock chores, nature hikes, history, arts and crafts.
Interested parties can sign up via City of Mountain View Recreation Division.
Farm Classes
Farm classes support the State curriculum in Science, History and Social Studies, reinforcing with hands-on activity what the students are learning in their schools. Students learn in small groups with specially trained docents in an outdoor classroom.
45 schools in 13 San Francisco Bay Area cities participate every year.
This program is so popular that every September, teachers compete in a lottery for enrollment in the 200 classes offered.
If you are an elementary school teacher interested in these classes, contact the Farm staff:
- call 650-903-6430 or
- email deerhollowfarm@mountainview.gov
The Farm also has a complete replica of Ohlone Village where students learn about the daily life of the area’s original inhabitants. Students grind acorns, visit an underground sweathouse, play a traditional hoop and spear game. They learn about flintknapping, cooking and fire-starting.
Classes offered:
- Farm and Garden (Kindergarteners)
- Sheep and Goats (First Graders)
- Wilderness (Second to Fourth Graders)
- Ohlone Habitat and Village (Third and Fourth Graders)
Friends of Deer Hollow Farm “FODHF” pays for half the classes, ensuring that schools in poorer neighborhoods can attend the outstanding program.
School classes are eligible for scholarships from FODHF if more than one-third of the class or school is on the Federal Lunch Program.
Classes are held September through May.