John Patrick Green presents: An Evening with the Voices of the InvestiGators Audiobooks
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McNally Jackson Seaport - 5:30 PM Pick
All In A New York Minute Exhibition
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All In A New York Minute - 12:00 PM
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New World Stages / Stage 5 - various times
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LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
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All In A New York Minute Exhibition
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All In A New York Minute - 12:00 PM
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Golden Theatre - various times
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LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
Music Kids' Concert at Sofar Sounds feat. Mike Messer
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Sofar Sounds - 10:30 AM
Apokalupsis: An Uncovering Exhibit at the AKC Dog Museum
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American Kennel Club's Dog Museum - 11:00 AM
LaGuardia High School Spring Drama Festival: Romeo and Juliet
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LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
Movies Under the Stars: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in Cadman Plaza
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Cadman Plaza Park - 8:00 PM Pick
LaGuardia High School Spring Drama Festival: Romeo and Juliet
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts - 7:00 PM Pick
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Geometric Flowers Family Workshop at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
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Brooklyn Bowl - 12:30 PM Pick
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The Retreat Farm: A Petting Farm in Brattleboro, Vermont
8/6/12
- By Anna Fader
Chances are, if you have a kid, you’ve been to a petting zoo. But have you ever been to a petting farm? Did you even know such a thing existed? I didn’t before we stumbled upon the perfectly charming Retreat Petting Farm in Brattleboro, Vermont.
The Retreat Farm is a unique place. Once a private mental health facility, the farm provided food as well as a therapeutic and vocational outlet for the patients. Today the farm provides a therapeutic outlet to the public who need a dose of adorable and furry.
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The difference between a petting zoo and The Retreat Petting Farm is that you are visiting a working farm. Walk through the barns to visit and hold newly hatched baby chicks, hand feed a one ton ox, scratch the bellies of the piglets, bottle feed the dwarf goats and maybe even chase the chickens around the hen house a little. The experience much more closely resembles what it’s like just to be a farm kid hanging out and playing in the barn. And what could be a better addition to your Vermont vacation than that?
The Retreat Farm also has miles of trails, including a woodlands interpretive trail. And make sure to cross the yard to the Grafton Village Cheese Co. where you can sample and purchase local Vermont cheeses and wines. The Retreat Petting Farm is open Memorial Day through Columbus Day. Find out more at theretreatfarm.com.
The Retreat Farm also has miles of trails, including a woodlands interpretive trail. And make sure to cross the yard to the Grafton Village Cheese Co. where you can sample and purchase local Vermont cheeses and wines. The Retreat Petting Farm is open Memorial Day through Columbus Day. Find out more at theretreatfarm.com.
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