Self-Guided: Summer at The Battery

Please read through all of the following instructions before booking a field trip! Thank you.

The Battery Urban Farm, a project of The Battery Conservancy, is an educational farm where New York City’s students, residents, and visitors learn about their role as environmental stewards of our urban ecology, and work together to maintain this thriving public space. All of the produce we grow is either used for educational programs or donated to hunger relief. We started the vegetable farm in 2011 and in 2015 we opened our Forest Farm, an enchanted forest of native plants with a focus on edible and medicinal plants.

Staff-led field trips at The Battery are 75 minutes long and cover a range of topics involving the environment and our local environment. Please select the appropriate grade level trip for your group, and during registration you'll have the option to request a particular content focus. All of our staff-led field trips engage students in hands-on exploration of the farm and park: helping our staff with planting and other projects on the farm, observing the wildlife of the park up close, and tasting fresh produce growing on site.
For self-guided field trips, lesson plans and materials are provided for teachers to print. Staff-led field trips are available between April and October of each year, and self-guided field trips are available all year. In order to provide opportunities to our full range of interested schools and organizations, we limit each organization to two staff-led field trips per season.

For both staff-led and self-guided trips, we encourage you to enjoy our Playscape and park lawns as a part of your visit.

In addition to field trips, we also have opportunities for environmental clubs and after-school programs to work with our staff in the afternoons on a more regular basis through our Stewardship Lab program. If you would like to pursue this option, please fill out the Stewardship Lab interest form.

Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to see all field trip options and select "Book Now" to choose an available time slot. If you're having trouble finding the trip options, refresh the page and try again. To see all available dates and times, click on the green "View All Availabilities" button. Please note that most trips can accommodate a maximum of 33 students, but "Small Group" trips can only accommodate a maximum of 12 students. If you have 12 or fewer students, we ask that you reserve a "Small Group" slot or email us to discuss scheduling.

Registration for field trips opens on the following dates:

• March 5th: Registration for trips in April, May, and June
• June 3rd: Registration for trips in July and August
• August 1st: Registration for trips in September, October, and November
• November 6th: Registration for trips in December, January, February, and March.

If you'd like to receive a reminder when registration opens each season, please fill out this form to join our Teacher Email List.

If you don't see a time slot that works for you, please reach out through the email on the right. We will do our best to accommodate you! We also regularly have groups cancel, so you may want to check back at a later date to see if something has opened up.