Johnny's Wild Game & Fish Park
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Route 2
Cadillac 49601
231.775.3700
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Memorial Day - Labor Day
10am-6pm
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Call for Details
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This park offers a petting farm and trout fishing plus viewing
of many exotic animals.
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Bellair's Hillside Farm & Sheep Shed
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8351 Big Lake Rd.
Clarkston 48346
248.625.1181
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Tues.-Sat.
Noon-5:30pm
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Admission Free; $1 tour information packet
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This sheep farm does shearing of wool, processing, spinning
into yarn, weaving, knitting lessons, and lambing. Feeding of baby
lambs in season (usually May). Sheep shearing days are in May and
Oct. Groups of 6 or more by appointment only.
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Calder Brothers Dairy Farm
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9334 Finzel Road
Carleton 48117
734.654.2622
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Year-round
10pm-7pm Mon-Thurs, & Sun;
10am-8pm Fri. & Sat.
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Free farm visit.
$4.75 per person per tour
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Working dairy farm. Kids will enjoy watching cows, chickens,
geese, burros and many other animals. You can buy milk in bottles
and great ice cream. Call to arrange tour including cow milking
and milk processing. Each person taking the tour received a free
ice cream cone.
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Charles L. Bowers Farm
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1219 E. Square Lake Rd.
Bloomfield Hills 48302
248.433.0885
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Open Barn Days several Saturdays Spring to Fall
1pm-4pm
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$2.50 per person for tour
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During "Open Barn Days" children take a hayride, milk
a cow, and visit other animals. They also will see demonstrations
on butter churning, crop harvesting, preserving food, making
cheese and wool spinning.
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Cook's Farm Dairy
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2950 Seymour Lake Rd.
Ortonville 48462
248.627.3329
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Call to schedule tours
9am-10pm
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$3/person
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This is a 150 cow dairy farm which processes its own milk and
ice cream. It has a small store on site where you can purchase
these products (the ice cream cones are huge!). An ice cream cone
and chocolate milk are included with the tour Monday to Saturday
only at 10:30am or groups by appointment.
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Domino's Petting Farm
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Dates/Times
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Cost
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24 Frank Lloyd Wright
Ann Arbor 48106
734.930.3188
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April to October
9:30am-4pm M-F; 11am-4pm Sat & Sun.
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$2.50 per person. Children under 2 free
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Domino's Farm is committed to furthering academic and
agricultural activities. It features over 100 animals, hay rides,
animal demonstrations, rare breeds, picnic area and gift store.
They also will accommodate birthday parties and have pavilions for
bigger events. Animal shows on Saturday and Sunday at 1 & 3pm.
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Mott Farm
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Dates/Times
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Cost
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6140 Bray Rd.
Flint 48505
810.760.1795
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April-Nov.
10am-5pm, Mon.-Fri., 11am-5:30pm Sat. & Sun.
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$1 Adults,
50¢ Children
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Mott Petting Farm has two barns full of animals to pet and
feed. (Located near Crossroads Village)
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Greenfield Village
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Location
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Dates/Times
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Cost
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20900 Oakwood Blvd.
Dearborn 48124
313.271.1620
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Daily Mid-March to 1st. Week in January
9am-5pm
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Adults $12.50; Children 5-12 $7.50 Under 4
free.
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Firestone Farm at historic Greenfield Village is a working farm
where costumed interpretive guides live and work according to a
nineteenth century schedule.
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Kensington Metropark
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2240 W. Buno Rd.
Milford 48380
800.477.3178
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Open year-round during general park hours.
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Vehicle permits required
$4 weekdays,
$3
weekends, Wednesdays free
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The Farm Center of Kensington Metropark offers children a
chance to interact with the animals. During the spring and summer
months children are sometimes able to see the animals giving
birth.
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Langenderfer Farm
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11840 Strasburg Rd.
Erie 48161
734.856.4283
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March - June
9am-5pm
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Admission $4. Evening hayride or bonfire $4.75
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In the spring this farm is full of chicks and ducks. Tours
teach children about the incubation process, provide hands-on
activities in the greenhouse and offers a hayride. In the fall
there is a corn-husk maze , u-pick pumpkins, a haunted barn and
many Halloween displays for younger children. For Spring or Fall
tours call.
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Real Life Farm
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48700 Geddes Rd.
Canton 48188
248.495.0822
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Spring-Fall
Spring 10am-2pm,
Fall 10am-Midnight
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Spring tour-$4.50, Fall tour-$8.00
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The farmer takes you on a 30 minute hayride then children can
ride the horses in the corral. There are lots of farm-related
hands-on experiences for all ages.
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Cobblestone Farm
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2781 Packard
Ann Arbor 48108
734.994.2928
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May - September
1-4 p.m. Fri. and Sun.
Groups can call to schedule tours
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$5 family rate,
$2 adults,
$1.50 children 3-17
and seniors,
under 3 free
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Cobblestone farm is a living farm museum, that tells the story
of 19th-century Michigan farm life through a variety of restored,
authentically furnished buildings.
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Hess-Hathaway
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825 S. Williams Lake Rd.
Waterford Township 48327
248.360.3814
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10am-8pm daily summer. 10am-5pm daily winter
Call to reserve petting farm and historic farmhouse tours
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$1/person animal visit and tour,
$3/person for
hayrides
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Young children will enjoy a tour of this compact little farm
with its red barns and white clapboard houses for hens and
rabbits.
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Mt. Bruce Station
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6440 Bordman Road
Romeo 48065
586.798.2568
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The Farm Wool Shop is open year-round
10am-5pm Thurs.- Sat.
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Entrance fee for Sheep and Wool Festival and for
classes.
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A beautifully restored 50 acre sheep ranch nestled in northwest
Macomb County's gently rolling pasturelands.
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Ruby Farms of Michigan
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Cost
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6567 Imlay City Road
Ruby 48049
810.324.2662
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September - Christmas
11am-5pm Fri.-Sun.
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Small charge for petting zoo
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Cider Mill, restaurant, children can feed animals
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Upland Hills Farms
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Dates/Times
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Cost
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481 Lake George Road
Oxford 48370
248.628.1611
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Please call for days and times. |
Prices vary
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Hayride, u-pick pumpkins, playground, haunted house, petting
farm, pony rides, country store, fall goodies.
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Wolcott Mill Metropark Farm Learning Center
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65775 Wolcott Road
Ray, MI 48096
586.752.5932
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Tours available for schools and other groups
Tuesday thru Fridays, year around.
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$1.00 per student, no charge for adults for
tours.
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Wolcott Mill Metropark Farm Learning Center is a modern working
farm. They have a herd of dairy cows that are milked at 10am
daily. They also have draft horses, goats, sheep, pigs,
chickens, ducks, turkeys, pheasants, rabbits, and more.
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