Make Cheese, Meet Chickens At Queens Farm Programs For Adults

LITTLE NECK, QUEENS — Playing in the mud isn't just for kids in northeast Queens.

The Queens County Farm Museum is hosting a dozen hands-on, adult education programs from March through the end of this year, offering people ages 18-and-up a chance to get their hands dirty with chicken rearing and cheesemaking classes alike.

In honor of its 325th anniversary, the programs will focus on the agricultural history of New York City and connect locals with the Little Neck farm's historic grounds.

The programs, which range from $50 per-person to pay-what-you-wish, will be taught by experts, like Athena Levesque, a Hatha and Vinyasa yoga instructor who's leading sunset yoga classes, and Marie Viljoen, an edible plant expert and author who's leading a foraging program.

Other programatic highlights include free winter stargazing, urban homesteading classes (including one about how to keep an urban garden and another about how to raise chickens in the city), and a strawberry sampling-slash-farm-tour .

The adult education classes kicked off on Saturday, with a historic 18th-century cookery course (that's also offered on Nov. 19th), and will run through Dec. 11th, when the last wreath-making workshop will be held.

Find out more details about all of the classes here.