Farm-based field trips!

A visit to the Sauvie Island Center is always a memorable event. We offer elementary school students a guided exploration of the 130 acre Topaz Farm site, which includes our Grow Lunch Garden, farmland, and many other amazing features of the site.

For the Fall 2021 field trip season, we are so excited to be delivering digital field trip programming as well as hosting 8 Family Field Trips onsite. 

Family field trips run from 10am-12pm at our site on Topaz Farm and will be held most Wednesdays through November 10th.

Field trip leaders will lead family units through an exploration of our typical fall field trip modules: Seed to Harvest, Plant Parts, and Soil & Compost. This will involve tending to SIC’s very own Grow Lunch Garden, learning about decomposers, a dynamic farm tour and more.

Thanks to the support of Topaz Farm, we’ll host a free Family Field Trip Day for friends of Topaz Farm on Wednesday, October 6th from 10 am to noon. The sliding scale fee is waived for all, but space is limited and registration is required.

Register for the Friends of Topaz Farm Family Field Trip

Registration & Details

Additional Family Field Trips will be offered beginning October 13th. Details are as follows:

Family field trips are offered at a sliding scale of $10-$25 and scholarships are available. Email Helen for more information.

• This fee covers up to six students with one adult at a minimum
• If you would like to bring more than six students, there is an additional charge of $5/student and we require that you bring at least two adult chaperones

Click here for SIC’s Communicable Disease Management Plan (Family Field Trips)

Click the link below to register today!

If you have any questions or concerns about family field trips, please check in with our Resource Director Joanne Lazo.

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If you are an educator and would like more information, or to request a standard field trip (not the same as a family field trip), visit our Educator Resource page which was developed with support from West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District.