WINTERPAST FARM is……..a place to be outdoors with family and friends. The address is 12936 Ghoston Road, Wake Forest NC 27587. Located near Falls Lake at the end of Six Forks Road at Highway 98.
*NOTE: Read “your visit” at www.winterpast.org all about making an appointment to visit the farm. Open dates and times, which vary greatly, are regularly updated at the farm FB page and website. Do not just drop by.
Lots of new birthday pics at the bottom of this post! PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST INSTEAD OF CALLING WITH QUESTIONS THAT ARE ALL ANSWERED HERE. This same information applies to corporate events, neighborhood events, school events etc. Price can occasionally be lowered for churches and schools and for weekday or multi-hour events. FARM BIRTHDAY PARTIES are for all ages at Winterpast Farm in Wake Forest, North Carolina. This ten acre fully fenced family...
Did you know you can host a pet from Winterpast Farm Petting Zoo in Wake Forest North Carolina? For $50 you get the animal, cage, feed and everything you need for a week long educational animal experience. (Most bunny and guinea pig hosting opportunities are for a week but it can be fewer days for the same $50 price.) This $50 price is for bunnies, guinea pigs and groups of chicks and ducklings. Goat and lamb and hedgehog hosting is also $50 but by the...
Winterpast Farm has hosted pre-schools, Scout goups, Mom groups, Homeschooler groups and public school groups. One time we had 150 second graders here! Farmer Mary hired a few farmer and a forestor friend to help that time! There is plenty of parking and school buses can get in and out easily.
2017 The animals of Winterpast Farm Petting Zoo drew record crowds tonight (Dec 23) at the second night of Live Nativity at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh. Tonight Farmer Mary went with an all white theme with sheep CHARLIE BROWN and his pregnant wife, CINDY LOU and goats THOMAS and his pregnant wife, BUTTERCUP. MABEL and CLAIRE the mini donkeys stay all three nights in the barn but Farmer Mary picks a pair of goats and pair of sheep to accompany...
For, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds has come.
PUMPKIN PIE birthed fiveGolden Retriever puppies early this morning at Winterpast Farm in Wake Forest NC. Farmer Mary is staying close so the farm is closed today for visits.
Hope to be open Friday 10-5, Saturday 10-6. CLOSED Sunday for a Mobile Petting Zoo visit to a home birthday and a private photo session. Farmer Mary will post more open times soon.
Meanwhile FarmerMary will have the Winterpast Farm FaceBook Live going in the puppy maternity room. Maybe by later today. Then you can watch the pups develop from your home or office🥰🦮
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👍🏽Try the brand new D.I.Y. farm visit option this week at Winterpast Farm in Wake Forest NC. Any daylight hours. Farmer Mary is very busy hanging out closely with her Golden Retriever PUMPKIN PIE waiting for her to give birth. 🥰🦮Returning visitors ONLY please who already should know where to park at a 🐷 , where and how much admission 💵to pay, how to open the gates etc.
📱Text Farmer Mary at 919-244-1800 to let her know when you are arriving. Returning visitors ONLY please who already should know where to park at a 🐷 , where and how much admission 💵to pay, how to open the gates etc.
🐐🐖Head straight to the barn yard to hang out with the baby goats and walk the back forest. Don’t let ANY dogs through any gates. Wander our ten fenced acres.🌳🌲
🥕🍎🍌🍇Animal food will NOT be available for purchase. Read the list of what food you can bring at “Your Visit” at winterpast.org. Cut it up thinly at home. Buckets and knives for feed will NOT be available.
‼️Please do not offer ANY food to baby goats and handle them like the VERY fragile babies they are‼️Returning visitors ONLY please who already should know where to park at a 🐷 , where and how much admission 💵to pay, how to open the gates etc.
👍🏽Farmer Mary will post more open dates for the usual farm visits soon at Winterpast Farm. 👩🏼🌾The Farmer’s Daughter now works at a preschool most days so Farmer Mary can’t watch over very pregnant PUMPKIN PIE and have the petting zoo open at the same time.🥰🦮
👍🏽Stay tuned for puppy news‼️Farmer Mary will be running the Winterpast Farm Facebook Live daily and most nights from the Puppy Maternity Room.🥰🦮
👍🏽We need calm loving volunteers any day/evening to hang out with VERY pregnant PUMPKIN PIE who literally likes to have her hand held. We will needing calm loving puppy snugglers soon. Text Farmer Mary at 919-244-1800 to set up a time to keep PUMPKIN PIE company.🥰🐐
👍🏽FOLLOW: winterpast_farm on Instagram
@winterpastfarm on TikTok.
🎁For animal lovers, Here’s a link to Farmer Mary’s Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3WR1X7DPUAW6?ref_=wl_share
#farmermary #farmher #winterpastfarm #wakeforestnc #farm #familyfarm #supportlocalsmallfarms #triangleoutdoors #pettingzoo #animalrescue #trianglemom #raleighmoms #trianglefamilyfun #ncoutdoors #durhammoms #animalencounter #diy #babygoats #closethegate
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🦮Farmer Mary is busy hanging close to Golden Retriever PUMPKIN PIE who is expected to birth a litter of puppies any day now.
🐐With new baby goats in the barnyard it’s very hard to turn away possible farm visitors. Pictured is QUEEN ELIZABETH with her darling two day old son PRINCE WILLIAM.
So, if you have visited before and know how to park at a pig 🐷, where to pay at the gate ($10/person cash only exact change only), how to open the front gate and CLOSE it behind you and how to open the gate to the pasture NOT letting ANY dogs into the pasture and CLOSE the gate behind you then you are welcome to text Farmer Mary (NO voicemails only texts) at 919-244-1800 and arrange a time for a D.I.Y. farm visit this week. Any daylight time fine
👍🏽More rules: watch your children. Close gates you open. Do not expect Farmer Mary to set out feed buckets or knives to cut animal food. You can take small items of food into the barnyard to feed the Mother goats, donkey, pig, emu (Hold your hand flat for the very nice emu and don’t offer food items wider than their throat), DO NOT OFFER FOOD TO BABY GOATS who could choke to death and die. Read that last line again.
Feel free to wander the back woods. If you take a baby goat out there bring it back! Don’t let small children pick up and drop baby goats. Have small children sit on one of the goat platforms (you can see both in picture) on logs or on chairs and a grownup can help them to hold a fragile baby goat.
🦮Feel free to bring dog treats. Just say hi to any dogs you see as you open the gate and keep going. And CLOSE THE GATE. Don’t let dogs out the front gate.
Hand washing is through the open doorway of the barn. Sink is immediately visible of you look right.
Send some farm pics and videos to Farmer Mary and she will post. This could be the start of more DIY here especially early mornings and evenings that people have asked for.
👍🏽If you think you can handle the responsibility please text Farmer Mary to suggest a date and time. Today is fine the animals are lonesome for company.🐐🐓🐖
👍🏽Thank you for supporting a small local farm family animal rescue Golden Retriever breeder.
👍🏽Farmer Mary will post more open dates for farm visits soon. 🦮A litter of Golden Retriever puppies is expected Tuesday. Red Golden, pictured, PUMPKIN PIE is the Mom and English Cream Golden HENRY is the Dad. The Farmer’s Daughter now works all day at a preschool most days so Farmer Mary can’t watch over PUMPKIN PIE and have the petting zoo open at the same time.🥰🦮
👍🏽Stay tuned for news‼️Farmer Mary will run the Winterpast Farm Facebook Live daily from the Puppy Maternity Room.🥰🦮We could really use volunteers any day/evening next week to hang out with VERY pregnant PUMPKIN PIE and puppy snugglers starting next week. Text Farmer Mary at 919-244-1800 to set up a time to keep PUMPKIN PIE company.🥰🐐
👍🏽FOLLOW: winterpast_farm on Instagram
@winterpastfarm on TikTok.
🎁For animal lovers, Here’s a link to Farmer Mary’s Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3WR1X7DPUAW6?ref_=wl_share
#farmermary #farmher #winterpastfarm #wakeforestnc #farm #familyfarm #supportlocalsmallfarms #triangleoutdoors #pettingzoo #animalrescue #trianglemom #raleighmoms #trianglefamilyfun #ncoutdoors #durhammoms #animalencounter #goldenretriever #dogs
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🥰🐐Introducing PRINCE WILLIAM, born tonight to 👑QUEEN ELIZABETH at Winterpast Farm in Wake Forest NC‼️ Winterpast Farm will be OPEN SUNDAY for visits from 12-5. Please read “Your visit” at winterpast.org.
🍎🥕Buy food here ($5) or bring some food along. 🫑Read the food list at “Your Visit” at Winterpast.org.🍐🍌🍉🍇🍓🫐🫛🥦🥬🥒🍠
🐐🥰All the baby goats love cuddling. Bring some food snacks for the nursing moms!🥕🍎🍇🥬🍉🫐
🐐🐐Baby goat season doesn’t last forever! All the baby boys are for sale ($100) as bottle or weaned babies. 👍🏽Please let friends know.
🐓Please read “Your visit” at Winterpast.org then follow the VERY clear directions to text Farmer Mary how many people to expect at what time.
.🥰🐐We have 7 darling baby goats. Come snuggle them all and get some truly unique baby goat selfies soon!🥰🐐
‼️The average American spends only 12 minutes daily outdoors❗️ Time to up your average❗️
🐓Winterpast Farm Schedule:
Sun April 14 OPEN 12-5
Farmer Mary will post more open dates soon. A litter of Golden Retriever puppies is expected Tuesday. Stay tuned for news. Farmer Mary will run the Winterpast Farm Facebook Live daily from the Puppy Maternity Room.🥰🦮
👍🏽FOLLOW: winterpast_farm on Instagram
@winterpastfarm on TikTok.
🎁For animal lovers, Here’s a link to Farmer Mary’s Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3WR1X7DPUAW6?ref_=wl_share
#farmermary #farmher #winterpastfarm #wakeforestnc #farm #familyfarm #supportlocalsmallfarms #triangleoutdoors #pettingzoo #animalrescue #trianglemom #raleighmoms #trianglefamily #ncoutdoors #durhammoms #animalencounter #princewilliam #goats #babygoats #welcome #birthday #outinthebarn #happybirthday #babyfarmanimals #newbornphotography #goat
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🌲🌳Farmer Mary is planning on offering one side (4acres) of the back pasture\forest at Winterpast Farm as a Private Forest Dog Park you could rent for an hour or two. 🐕. 🌳🌲Also as a Private Forest Playground for children and homeschool (for example) groups.
🦮When we have puppies there would be Puppy Snuggling opportunities there. 📖Also Story Times with Farmer Mary on specific days to meet animals like SONIC the hedgehog 🦔, the bunnies 🐰 , the guinea pigs, and baby chicks 🐥. Please comment if any of these future plans interest YOU. #newplans #thefuture #dogpark #forestplayground #thinkingahead
🐖Winterpast Farm will be OPEN SATURDAY for visits from 10-6. Please read “your visit” at Winterpast.org.
Maybe 🐐👑QUEEN ELIZABETH goat will have her babies while you are here and you can help Farmer Mary. 👑🐐QUEEN ELIZABETH is getting VERY wide. 🐐🥰All the baby goats love cuddling. Bring some food snacks for the nursing moms!🥕🍎🍇🥬🍉🫐
🐐🐐Baby goat season doesn’t last forever! All the baby boys are for sale ($100) as bottle or weaned babies. 👍🏽Please let friends know.
🐓Please read “Your visit” at Winterpast.org then follow the VERY clear directions to text Farmer Mary how many people to expect at what time.
.🥰🐐We have 6 darling baby goats and we still have one more pregnant goat-👑QUEEN ELIZABETH. Come snuggle them all and get some truly unique baby goat selfies soon!🥰🐐
‼️The average American spends only 12 minutes daily outdoors❗️ Time to up your average❗️
🐓Winterpast Farm Schedule:
/Fri CLOSED
Sat April 13 OPEN 10-6
Sun April 14 OPEN 12-5
👍🏽FOLLOW: winterpast_farm on Instagram
@winterpastfarm on TikTok.
🎁For animal lovers, Here’s a link to Farmer Mary’s Amazon Wish List:
#farmermary #farmher #winterpastfarm #wakeforestnc #farm #familyfarm #supportlocalsmallfarms #triangleoutdoors #pettingzoo #animalrescue #trianglemom #raleighmoms #trianglefamily #ncoutdoors #durhammoms #animalencounter #forest #getoutside #trees #pinetrees #woods #getoutdoors #outsideplay #forestchild
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Winterpast Farm started back in 2003 when Farmer Mary moved from downtown (Cameron Park) Raleigh after a divorce. Then she started to collect animals. Her Mother had always told her “You can have as many dogs and animals as you want after you grow up”. About a year later someone called asking about the “Petting Zoo”. Farmer Mary googled Petting Zoos and read about a “Farmer John” and decided she would be Farmer Mary. And twenty years have gone by as she has lived out her childhood dream and enjoyed the opportunity to share her experiences with all ages farm visitors. Now the Farmer’s Daughter who Farmer Mary adopted twenty years ago from Russia at age 7 helps run the farm.
🐖Winterpast Farm will be OPEN SATURDAY for visits 10-6. Please read “your visit” at Winterpast.org.
Maybe 🐐👑QUEEN ELIZABETH goat will have her babies while you are here and you can help Farmer Mary. 👑🐐QUEEN ELIZABETH is getting VERY wide. 🐐🥰All the baby goats love cuddling. Bring some food snacks for the nursing moms!🥕🍎🍇🥬🍉🫐
🐐🐐Baby goat season doesn’t last forever! All the baby boys are for sale ($100) as bottle babies. 👍🏽Please let friends know.
🐓Please read “Your visit” at Winterpast.org then follow the VERY clear directions to text Farmer Mary how many people to expect at what time.
.🥰🐐We have 6 darling baby goats and we still have one more pregnant goat-👑QUEEN ELIZABETH. Come snuggle them all and get some truly unique baby goat selfies soon!🥰🐐
‼️The average American spends only 12 minutes daily outdoors❗️ Time to up your average❗️
🐓Winterpast Farm Schedule:
Thur/Fri CLOSED
Sat April 13 OPEN 10-6
Sun April 14 OPEN 12-5
👍🏽FOLLOW: winterpast_farm on Instagram
@winterpastfarm on TikTok.
🎁For animal lovers, Here’s a link to Farmer Mary’s Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3WR1X7DPUAW6?ref_=wl_share