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Farm Connections — Level 1
Turn local farms into your child’s classroom! This is the Farm Connections Level 1 curriculum downloadable for educator’s convenience. Access our experience-based curriculum that encourages Young Farmers to explore where their food comes from through real farm visits, hands-on discovery, sensory exploration, and creative reflection.
Young Farmers will visit local farms and homesteads, discover locally grown foods, meet poultry and dairy animals, collect eggs, explore how fruits and vegetables grow, and taste foods connected to the farms they visit. Along the way, they’ll document their adventures through drawing, observation, and conversation as they work toward completing their Farm Connections Level 1 Badge.
Your digital download includes:
Farm Connections Level 1 Student Badge Checklist for Young farmers to keep in their binders and keep account of their progress completing tasks towards earning their badges.
Farm Connections Level 1 Student Badge Checklist and Teacher’s Guide, with special detailed instruction to guide educators towards meaningful, curiosity-led learning learning experiences for their students.
Local Farm Adventure Lesson Plan, leading Young Farmers explore local farms, meet the people who grow their food, and discover how farms connect to their everyday lives.
Farm Food Discovery Lesson Plan, connecting Young Farmers with local foods, the people who produce them, and their journey from farm to table.
Highly recommended to purchase separately:
Essential Young Farmer Starts Curriculum + Educators Philosophy Guide
Homestead Binder Kit
Watercolor Set
Watercolor Pencil Set
The Essential Young Farmer Starts Curriculum + Educator’s Philosophy Guide is the foundation of the YFS learning experience. It introduces the philosophy, teaching practices, and essential tools behind the cumulative curriculum, helping educators create hands-on experiences that foster curiosity, confidence, independence, practical know-how, and a lifelong love of learning.
This downloadable curriculum package includes:
YFS Introductory Welcome Page
YFS – The 12 Tenets
YFS Educational Resources Pages
YFS Lesson Plan Template
YFS – Creating Your Homestead Binder + Vision Board Collage Lesson Plan
T.O.U.G.H. Poster
T.O.U.G.H. Breakdown
YFS – The 12 Tenets
Introduces the core principles behind the YFS approach to experiential learning, curiosity, independence, and meaningful real-world discovery.
YFS Educational Resources Pages
Shares the educational methods and resources that helped shape the YFS curriculum, giving educators opportunities to explore its philosophy and teaching practices more deeply.
YFS Lesson Plan Template
Offers a flexible framework for creating new lessons that follow the structure and educational approach used throughout the YFS curriculum.
Creating Your Homestead Binder + Vision Board Collage Lesson Plan
Guides educators and students through creating the Homestead Badge Binder—a personal place to collect badge progress, observations, artwork, reflections, and accomplishments throughout the program.
T.O.U.G.H. Poster
Offers a simple visual reminder of the values and expectations that encourage Young Farmers to participate safely, respectfully, and thoughtfully.
T.O.U.G.H. Breakdown
Explores each T.O.U.G.H. principle in greater depth, helping educators introduce and reinforce kindness, open-mindedness, awareness, respect, and helping others.
Featured Products
The Young Farmer Starts Homestead Badge Binder Kit has the essentials young farmers need to explore, create, and earn their badges! The homestead badge binder keeps badge checklists, drawings, notes, and discoveries together so children can watch their skills and accomplishments grow.
Each kit is packed with creative tools for hands-on learning, including specific tools that are required for lesson plans within the Young Farmer Starts curriculum. Everything is organized and portable, so Young Farmers are ready to sketch, write, collect, and create wherever their adventures take them.
More than just supplies, the kit becomes part of their Young Farmer story—a keepsake filled with creativity, curiosity, new skills, and proud accomplishments made while learning by doing.
Collect Skills, Earn Badges, Build Confidence
This Kit includes:
Brown Cardboard Kraft 1 Inch 3-Ring Binder (1 pc)
Hole punched card stock paper (20 pc)
Hole puncher (1 pc)
Sharpie Permanent Marker (2 pc)
Ticonderoga The World's Best Pencil Wooden Pencil, 2.2mm, #2 Soft Lead (4 pc)
Pencil case (1 pc)
Fiskars 5" Pointed-Tip Scissors for Kids (1 pc)
Design Duct tape (2 pc)
Elmer's School Washable Glue Sticks, 0.24 oz., Purple (1 pc)
Integra Aluminum Pocket Pencil Sharpener (1 pc)
Farm Connections Binder Divider
Pre-Hole punched Cardstock paper
2 color/design Duct Tapes
Intro Name and Start Date page
Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolors - Sketcher's Pocket Set of 12, Assorted Colors, Half Pans: A quality, affordable option for Young Farmers to reflect creatively on their lessons. This pocket-sized set includes 12 watercolor half pans, a brush, and a built-in mixing palette, with transparent colors that mix easily for painting at home or on farm adventures.)
The Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils 12-Color Set - This set offers rich, smooth color for drawing and watercolor effects when blended with water. Packaged in a decorative tin, these AP-certified, non-toxic pencils give Young Farmers a versatile way to illustrate observations and reflect creatively on their lessons.
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