Sat. May 11 Mother’s Day Weekend Bring mom and grandmom on Saturday to celebrate Mother’s Day at Sharp’s at Waterford Farm! Bring a container, or purchase one of ours, and choose from our large selection of beautiful flowers or herbs and make a special Mother’s Day container. We supply the soil, fertilizer, and the mulch for your planter for free. (You just pay for whatever plants you pick out for the container.) Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the scenery of our 530 acre farm. At 4 PM, we will offer a free hayride that will take you around our farm and through the Cattail Creek.

Friday, June 28th 10 – 11:30 Ponds, Puddles, & Creeks Open House - Your guide will bring you by hayride to the Cattail Creek. Make sure you wear old tennis shoes or water shoes as we go into the creek to catch a variety of the critters that live there. After catching them, we take time to identify what we have found, and learn about their habitats and life cycles. After releasing the critters we head back to the barnyard to feed the farm animals! $7.00/child Adults are free! Register on or before June 27th. We are also offering our “Healthy Eats” option.

Friday June 21st 10-11:30 Wonderful World of Worms Open House - Your guide will teach the children about worms and their role in composting. Some questions that will be addressed are; What is vermi-composting? How does composting benefit the environment? How do you build a compost pile? What part do worms play in the composting process? Bring a baggie of food scraps as we will go through all the steps of how to make a compost pile! Everyone will pot a plant to take home! A hayride and feeding the farm animals is also included! $7.00/child Adults are free!

Thursday, April 25th 12 – 1:30 Spring Is Growing Open House - Children will begin this program in our barn classroom where they will learn about the parts of a seed; germination; how seeds travel; and how seeds grow into plants. They will take a tour of our working greenhouses and observe plants at various stages of growth. The children will also learn about the farm animals and have an opportunity to feed them. The program concludes with a fun filled hayride that goes through the Cattail Creek! All children will pot their own plant to take home with them. $6.50/child Adults are free!

10 am to 4 pm. Each year hundreds of spectators descend on Picacho Peak State Park to watch re-enactments of an Arizona Civil War skirmish and the New Mexico battles of Glorieta and Val Verde. Visitors travel from around the country to experience three fascinating historic battle re-enactments complete with lifestyles of the soldiers in the southwest during the 1860s. More than 200 re-enactors come from many states and will camp at the park with their authentic Civil War camping gear. Food and beverage concessions are also available, including the popular Kettle corn vendor.

The new 2013 Arizona Family Campout Program (March and April 2013) is designed for families that have little or no experience camping. We hope to introduce families to the unique experiences one can share with their family by exploring the great outdoors! These weekend introductory adventures are taking place at the five Arizona State Parks throughout Spring 2013. Parks include Catalina SP (Tucson), Kartchner Caverns SP (Benson), Lost Dutchman SP (Apache Junction), Dead Horse Ranch SP (Cottonwood), and Patagonia Lake SP (Patagonia). Learn more at AZStateParks.com/Family.

March is Archaeology and Heritage Awareness month in Arizona and each year we celebrate with an Archaeology Expo. This years expo will offer many educational attractions for archaeology and history buffs, and will be located at the historic Horseshoe Ranch on the Agua Fria National Monument, north of Phoenix (I-17, Exit 259). The Expo is open to the public and is FREE. Arizona Game & Fish Department and the Bureau of Land Management are co-hosting the event. Learn more at http://azstateparks.com/find/arch_calendar_2013.html

Celebrate our 10th Anniversary and join us for our first-ever Free Admission Day! Held in honor of our past ten years of excellence, all donations made that day will go towards our Sustainability Fund, which will ensure our future for the next 10 years to come. Donations are encouraged. To make a donation or questions regarding our Sustainability Fund, please contact Nick Gailey at 522-1400 ext. 3013 or email him at nickgailey@museumofidaho.org.

RAPUNZEL is a non-musical play featuring five actors who are new to the VYT main stage: Wil Arends (Dragon) – a 9th grader at Thunderbird High School, Rebecca Caswell (Witch) – a junior at Desert Vista High School, Jamin Metcalf (Prince) – a senior at Pinnacle High School, Jenson Metcalf (Husband) – a junior at Pinnacle High School, and Alena Sanderson (Wife) – a junior at Desert Mountain High School; Baily Shultz (Rapunzel) – a homeschooler, was in "Charlotte’s Web" last February and in the 2010 production of "The Hobbit". RAPUNZEL runs Feb. 8 through 24.

Crunching Competition! Karate Chomping! Veggie Face Creations! Seasonal Fruit Tasting!....and so munch more will be happening at the MMCM when The Fresh Food Fairy visits on June 22. Her presentations encourage plenty of laughter and munching through activities like crunching carrots as loud as possible, karate chomping green beans, creating veggie faces, and sampling seasonal fruits and vegetables. The Fresh Food Fairy’s pedal-powered smoothies will be available, and kids can go for a spin on her bike-powered blender.