Family Activities - Old McDonald's Farm, Inc.

Family Hay Rides

Enjoy a tractor pulled-hayride around our beautiful farm with your family. You are welcome to bring your own drinks and snacks. What a fun way to spend a warm summer night. We are happy to work with you to make this a fun, memorable, family time. This would be a fun activity for birthday parties, anniversaries, family reunions or after you camp out for the Farmer-For-A-Day program.

The hay wagon can accommodate up to 12 average size people. It takes roughly about 30-40 minutes to enjoy the views on the farm from the vantage point of the hay wagon.

The cost is $50.

Please call us today to schedule. And remember, you can feel good about your funds supporting educational programs for children with our nonprofit children’s charity. Please call 503/695-3316.

OMF Inc. Student Leading Horse with Second OMF Inc. Student Riding

Horse Husbandry/Riding Lessons

Learn respect, responsibility and valuable life skills while you learn all about horses. You can learn to ride either western or hunt seat. We specialize in “new-to-horses” folks. We emphasize safety, safety and more safety! Lessons are available spring, summer and autumn. Please schedule an appointment each time or make prior arrangements for a set schedule.

The cost is $75 per person per hour. What a great idea for a gift for a friend. Please call 503/695-3316.

Stephanie Rickerts and Young Students With a Wheelbarrow

Birthday Parties

As long as you do not mind us throwing in some education, you can enjoy a fun, unusual and educational birthday party out at Old McDonald’s
Farm, Inc. (OMF).

What works for most families is that they pick one of the Day Visit Program packages (under Children’s Programs on the Home Page) to meet and learn about our 30+ farm animals and then add on extra time to enjoy a bite of cake and to open gifts after the class. We have tables and seating. You provide the cake, food, table cloths and party favors. We can accommodate hundreds of folks with our outdoor spaces and up to say 40 in our indoor spaces.

There are many options and many opportunities such as horse riding lessons, family hay rides, enjoy a barbeque in our under-cover, wood burning barrel stove or our outdoor fire pit, hikes, etc.

Please call to make reservations and to ask any questions that you may have. Our office number is 503/695-3316.

Happy Birthday from OMF!

Family or Business Retreats

Enjoy a fantastic family reunion, birthday party or company picnic at Old McDonald’s Farm, Inc. Nestled among 68 acres are our 30+ farm animals, forest, raspberry fields and a trickling stream in the Columbia River Gorge area. Our picturesque Farm is ideal for your special day.

The Farm’s amenities include a cozy family sleepover, rustic schoolhouse, outdoor fire pit, restroom facilities, a garden, a farm store and lots of green space. We are conveniently located just 25 minutes to downtown Portland.

When choosing Old McDonald’s Farm, Inc. for your special day, you will also be supporting a local non-profit organization dedicated to providing children in the Portland metropolitan area healthy life experiences utilizing animals, agriculture gardens and natural resources as educational tools.

Beautiful and scenic 68-acre, raspberry farm
Picturesque location with a creek, fields, forest, farm animals and off-the road privacy
We are located just 1.2 miles off the East Historic Columbia River Highway just a few miles from the Vista House and Crown Point
We can accommodate a small group or hundreds of people
Plenty for your family and friends to do such as see the 30+ farm animals, rope a cow, climb on a tractor, play horseshoes, enjoy the fire pit, shop in the farm store and more.

Horse rides, hayrides, a bar-be-que in our fire pit and more is offered now! Also, u-pick seasonal berries, fresh or frozen berries, seasonal vegetables, hand made-items and antiques are available in our Farm Store.

Weddings

Have a memorable wedding day…imagine the bride in white riding in on a black horse.

For a memorable wedding day, we hope you will think of Old McDonald’s Farm, Inc. Nestled among 68 acres of native forest, raspberry fields and a trickling stream located in the Columbia River Gorge area. Our picturesque Farm is ideal for your special, rustic wedding.

The Farm’s amenities include a beautiful outdoor fire pit with seating for about 60 people, restroom facilities, a school-house to change clothes in or it has a refrigerator and a sink for the caterer, a garden, shade any time of day and lots of green space. We are conveniently located just 25 minutes to downtown Portland.

Other opportunities include: horse rides, hayrides, a bar-be-que in our fire pit as mentioned and petting the animals. Also, u-pick seasonal berries may be available. Likely, seasonal vegetables and hand-made items are available in our Farm Store too.

Please give us a call at 503/695-3316 or send an email with inquiries to omf@oldmcdonaldsfarm.org.

Register here by clicking this for the 2024 Harvest Festival but please do read the important “must have” information below.

Join us on the last Saturday in September!
Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the autumn season while you support our non-profit, children’s program. See our 30 Farm Program animals at our beautiful, educational site in Corbett. Join Old McDonald’s Farm, Inc. for fall, family fun. We have covered spaces and warming fires so join us rain or shine!

“J.P. Morgan” horse, is turning 31 on October 1. Help us celebrate with all things horse-y! We will have a horse “Selfie-Station” to take pictures in, have horse prizes, have horse trivia and birthday cake, of course!

Plus, if you would like to help celebrate and bring party gifts to J.P., please bring molasses or oats or apples or carrots or apple sauce or flour or vegetable oil to contribute to the horse treats. We will have some pre-made treats and will give them to the horses on the hour and half hour, throughout the day. Help us make up more batches of treats for the horses for later by bringing something for the horses now.

$6 per person. Babies and kids 1 year old & under are free of charge.
Included in that one entrance price:

See and learn from our beautiful, educational Farm Program.
Enjoy a family hayride.
Mount our stationary (fake) horse.
Meet all of the program animals including the real horses, min. horses, pony, goats, sheep, pig, geese, ducks, chickens, and farm dogs and cats too.
Enjoy the Selfie Station to take your own pictures with horse props & western props.
Bring your own old clothes to make a scare crow out of our hay and twine. You can take it home with you.
Let them eat cake! Enjoy a piece of J.P.’s birthday cake.
Sip hot chocolate, tea or cider and enjoy the Morgan horse trivia page in the schoolhouse too!

All of this above is included in that per person price. Your funds will help us help kids at our non-profit, children’s program and will help keep our Farm Program animals fed this winter. We thank you in advance for the help!

Please bring cash for:
Shopping in our Farm Store, roast up hot dogs and marshmallows in our wonderfully covered Fire Pit structure, $5 hot dog with the fixings and $1 all-you-can-eat marshmallows (while supplies last), ride a real horse ($10 each ride but only if it is not pouring rain) and more. Cash is best. Small bills will be much appreciated. Taking credit cards is dicey as it is a rural area. The entire system has gone down at an event before and we have lost power one time too. PLEASE BRING CASH!

Prepayment is required to join us for the Harvest Festival event from this link, and we will schedule families/groups starting at 10:00 a.m. and each hour after. Please come during your hour but stay as long as you like. We have plenty of indoor and outdoor space.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW! Click this link for Saturday, September 28, 2024

We look forward to having you join us as our guests!

The “Fine Print” Details:

We are open by appointment only! Please do not just show up; we will not take “walk ins” unless you have pre-registered please. Please make every effort to join us during your hour that you registered.

Please find directions here. Please do not use Google Map; it is wonky half the time.

Sorry, no refunds please. If you cannot join us, then let us know so we can open it up to another family. Please let us know early. If you cannot join us, after the event, contact us so we can send you our postcard receipt. With that, you can take the funds as a tax-deductible donation! We are a small non-profit, children’s program and so we unfortunately cannot afford to return funds nor do we have the staff to process refunds. We have the costs associated with the event whether you join us or not. No Refunds For Any Reason Please!

No Pets Allowed Please! We come under what is commonly known as the “Zoo Clause” and to ensure our animal’s safety, outside animals are NOT ALLOWED at our Farm Program. Additionally, our farm dogs are responsible for protecting our program animals and can be vicious towards unknown animals, even pets and service dogs (though they love people!). Our dogs will do everything they can to keep our livestock safe from coyotes and raccoons. It is impossible to explain “service animals” to our dogs. No pets allowed please. Thanks for that.

A Lovely Christmas Tea

New this year from Old McDonald’s Farm, Inc.

Enjoy a beautiful, small, intimate High Tea with your family and friends. We will bring a lovely Christmas Tea to your place or ours…on a date that works for you. Please help our non-profit, children’s program to scholarship low-income children by making a generous donation of $350 or more. If each person in your group of eight gave a small, year-end contribution and filled up one Christmas Tea, those funds could sponsor two children to go to our Summer Programs next year.

As a thank you to you for your generous donation, we will bring the High Tea to you. We will decorate for the Tea, bring the décor, bring the servers, the table, table cloth, chairs, beautiful tea cups and saucers, tea and pots, beautiful, fancy food, etc. all for up to eight (8) people. This is a new and unique opportunity just for you and your family or friends. Help us help children and feel good about making a tax-deductible donation to our local non-profit, children’s charity.

OMF, Inc. is a grass-roots program that serves Portland area children. We use farm animals, gardens and rich, natural resources to teach children and reach their hearts with valuable, life lessons that help them be kind, capable, respectful, hardworking and resilient. Animals (including horses and our cow), gardens and the environment are good teachers in reaching the heads and hearts of our children. It is just is an expensive way to teach children; housing and feeding 34 farm animals is lovely but expensive. There are many worthwhile life lessons that are taught in working through our academic activities and curriculum. Please help us help our local kids in this amazing and unique way.

We will only be able to do four of these Christmas Teas during the holiday/winter season. Your early reply gets you the choice of the best and available dates.

Please contact us.

We thank you. Happy Holiday Season to you!

Stephanie D. Rickert, M.A.T.
Executive Director
Old McDonald’s Farm, Inc.