Welcome to Indigo Farms! This tour is designed to provide an interactive and educational experience for children of all ages. Come enjoy spring on the farm!

The instructional part of the tour will take 1 to 1.5 hours. Please allow extra time if you plan to eat lunch or a snack. PLEASE let us know if you plan to eat lunch or a snack. We have picnic tables available and an on site bakery serving lunch and assorted baked goods. If you would like to place an order with the bakery, please call the week before your tour. See numbers below.

What you will take home:

Each student will receive an Indigo Farms Spring coloring book that reinforces the information presented during the tour. They will also take home a six or nine oz cup of strawberries and get a flowering plant to grow. We have additional educational information available, just ask!

Price:

The cost is $7.00per person. This includes all parents and siblings over one year old. One teacher and assistant are free per class. Special ed. classes may qualify to have additional adults free.

Additional Strawberries:

There will not be time for adults to pick extra strawberries during the tour. If individuals or groups want to order berries let us know in advance of your tour and we can have them ready. Call: 910-287-6794 or 843-399-6902 the day before your tour to place an order.

Weather:

If the weather is questionable please call to inquire about the weather here, or to reschedule. Should you cancel for any other reason it is important that you let us know a week in advance of our tour date.

Parking:

We encourage you to car pool as we have limited parking. Please park behind the Farm Market. Park with your group. We like to keep groups together so that no one gets blocked in. Please try to be at the farm 5 - 10 minutes early. It usually takes that long to get everyone paid and ready to start. We want your tour to be relaxing and enjoyable, not rushed. If you arrive late your tour may be shortened.

FOR RESERVATIONS CALL

Other Activities for the Whole Family!

Pick Your Own:

Birthday Parties for all ages:

Night time hayrides and bonfires:

Pumpkin Patch Hayrides:

Fall Event Days:

Farm Heritage Day, October 6,2012

Pumpkin Day, October 20 2012 .

 Pumpkin painting, hayrides, games, Naspig racing and more.

. Come enjoy hayrides, Naspig racing, demonstrations and more! These days are FREE for the whole family! Call for dates and times, October only. By reservation only in October and November. By reservation only. Call for more information. strawberries and blueberries. Ask about tomatoes, garden peas, and other crops. Call for the days and hours our fields will be open. 910-287-6794 or 843-399-6902 and ask for tour reservations. :

About the tour:

Enjoy a guided educational tour of the barnyard. You will see and learn about our horses, geese, peacock, emus, turkeys, goats, sheep, pigs and Hershey the hinny  . We usually have baby goats, spring chicks, and/or goslings.

In the greenhouse you will see dozens of plants, in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors! Students will learn what plants need to grow and why we can't live without them.

On the hayride you will see our blueberry, peach, grape, asparagus, and strawberry fields as well as various other seasonal crops. At frequent stops along the way your guide will tell you which crops you are seeing and some of their uses. As you ride around the farm you will learn about some of the native plants that we protect and why they are important. Before coming to the strawberry field you will see our bee hives and learn the reason honey bees are important to farms. At some point along the ride you will stop and pick either strawberries or a vegetable, strawberries preferably.

We are now harvesting some crops that should help with the holidays and your late fall meals.

Broccoli, kale, rape, mustard both slick and curly, turnips, turnip greens, tender greens, radish, diakon, kohlrabi, collards.

Butter beans, ford hooks, green tomatoes, baby romas tomatoes, romas tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, organic cherry tomatoes, organic eggplant are still available.

Just starting our late harvest of peanuts. They look very good and won’t get any fresher so if you enjoy peanuts or if you want to make your own peanut butter here is an opportunity. Look for lettuce soon.

It is a good time for sweet potatoes (covengton and red jewel as well as some white sweet potatoes). These potatoes are grown from neighboring farms. We have much more that we are bringing in including apples, nuts etc.

Don’t forget our apple cider and baked pies as well as the Garden Center that has many items that would make very good Christmas gifts.

The last week of STOCKPIGRacing for the 2011 season gives us the final standings and the official champion of NASPIG 2011. Jack Be Quick wins the championship with an impressive 344 points! He did it by overcoming some stiff adversity on October 15 to win all of his 12 races that day. It puts him in a rare class among STOCKPIG racing. Gold Rush finished second with 253 points and actually gained on the leader this past week. GOLD Rush was in fifth place on October 1. She gradually moved up each week to be a strong competitor. Magic Lantern had 190; One Too Many had 175, a strong comeback for the "headache kid"; Ironsides had 140; Happy Jack had 129; Merlin had 126; Muchkin had 102 and Little Boo had 101. For Muchkin it was the first time the pig got off the last place spot. She did have some fancy moves, spinning on the track and running in the wrong direction but she did make the most of her final races to advance upward.

  Thanks for an exciting season.

    The last week of October’s racing continues the shifts that separate the top pigs from the pigs that seem content to just be pigs on the track. This week #8, Jack Be Quick, regains his winning edge with 5 wins. The # 1 pig , Gold Rush, took in 4 wins. The #6, One Too Many , gat 2 wins as did #3, Ironsides. Magic Lantern #2 got one win along. The points leaders are:

#8 Jack Be Quick 319

#1 Gold Rush 226

#2 Magic Lantern 186

#6 One Too Many 163

#3 Ironsides 128

#9 Happy Jack 114

#5 Merlin 111

#7 Little Boo 94

#4 Munchkin 88

This will be the last week of the season for

STOCKPIG Racing for the 2011 season.

 See the Blog for STOCKPIG RACING update.
There are plenty of mums, flowers, Fall decor, apple cider and apples , a good time for beans, look for some fresh cool season vegetables soon. diakon and sweet potatoes, honey, etc. Heirloom tomaotes are starting to come in also.

A new point leader gets a hard earned victory and the nickname " Marathon Pig"on the Naspig circuit. Number 8, "Jack Be Quick" showed his colors while battling back from the brunt of the worst manners ever seen in STOCKPIG racing. After running at high form during the practices early and mid week he found himself being the target of not one but two pigs who would rather fight than race. It was a real consternation for STOCKPIG officials as they debated the possibility of disqualifying the number 6 pig, One Too Many. But One Too Many was dealt a blow as some of the pigs found a way to get by the terror of tactics. A case in point was the number 4 pig, Muchkin, who delighted in getting by number 6, running away then turning around and running past him again only to get by him a third time before crossing the finish line. This seem to put number 6 in his place. But then came Friday and it was as if number 6 and number 7, Little Boo, decided to get number 8, Jack Be Quick. By the end of Friday, Jack Be Quick was only too quick to get on the track afraid of the two track bullies. You could see the nervousness even before he went into he first turn.

Then came the next morning, Pumpkin Day, and Jack had to face the challenge of racing in the most important race of the season. Being second in the points race and with a possible 120 points to be won it would take his best effort to accomplish that. From the first race to the last, Jack Be Quick kept his cool, but not without being tested. The pigs run two times each scheduled race. The first run is three pigs and the last is all nine pigs running together. Three of the runs had Jack Be Quick running against the number 6 and 7 pigs. On Friday that would have been a complete wreck for Jack Be Quick. But the pig stayed focused and managed to ignore their tactics and in one case got free to come from way behind for the win. It is very rare for a pig to win every race on Pumpkin Day. That is hard to do but the marathon pig did it!

Magic Lantern #2 held on and is now in second. That is not bad for a pig that is not that fast. Finishing has been her strength all season. Gold Rush #1 did an outstanding job of sorting through races to get to third in the points race.

The point lead is as follows:

Jack Be Quick #8 leads with 202,

Magic Lantern #2 has 150,

Gold Rush #1 has 113,

One Too Many #6 has 90,

Ironsides #3 has 72,

Merlin #5 has 62,

Little Boo #7 has 60,

Happy Jack #9 has 58,

Be sure to bring cash for pick your own pumpkins. The place for pumpkin patch ride is behind the market near the hay maze or as you might go to the barnyard. We are not able to take credit cards for PYO pumpkins.

 Also please do not park in front of the garden center. It makes shopping difficult for those who want to shop there. Please use the spaces  near the sign.

Pick Your Own Pumpkins for Saturday, October 22, 2011.

Pumpkin Patch will be open from 10 am to 2 pm. The hay maze, corn stalk tipi and straw house will be open as well as the barnyard. Prices for Pumpkin patch is $16/ whole family to ride and pick one pumpkin. If you want to pick more they are priced by size, $9 large, $6 med, $3 small.  I think there may be a couple of pig races around 11 am and possibly 3 pm? There may be only pumpkin patch hay rides. If there is a regular hay ride it will likely run only at set times.

For October 29, 2011

There should be some pumpkins left to pick. It would be good to call before coming to make sure. The picking may be early and not in the afternoon past 1 pm. The hay maze, corn stalk tipi , straw house, barnyard and animals will be open. I think there may be a  of pig race around 11 am .