❤️🌷🐐One local family gifted their Mother with a visit from MAGGIE the baby goat today! Can you top that for Mothers Day gifting?! Read more about baby goat (and other animal) hosting at the Pet Hosting pages at www.winterpast.org. #rentdontshop
🐖Winterpast Farm will be open next on Wednesday for visits from 10-2.
🦆Please read the entire “Your Visit” section at www.winterpast.org to learn how you can schedule a farm visit, our admission price (cash only) and a list of food you can bring to feed all the animals.
🐑🐐Please DO NOT try to feed the baby goats or the lambs anything while you are here-they only drink their moms milk!
😷MASKS REQUIRED😷
😷APPOINTMENTS REQUIRED 😷
Winterpast Farm Schedule:
Wed May 12 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 13 CLOSED
Fri May 14 OPEN 12-5 ❤️BABY GOAT DAY!
(pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 15 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 16 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues CLOSED
Wed May 19 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 20 CLOSED
Fri May 21 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 22 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 23 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs CLOSED
Fri May 28 OPEN ❤️EMU SELFIE DAY❤️
Sat May 29 OPEN 12-5 after a private group
Sun May 30 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon (MEMORIAL DAY) OPEN 10-6 half price admission for all retired and active military🇺🇸
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! 🐥Winterpast Farm is open today from 12-5 with Half price admission for all Mothers! ❤️🌷Thank you for supporting a small local farm family animal rescue.
🐖Please read the entire “Your Visit” section at www.winterpast.org to learn how you can schedule a farm visit, our admission price (cash only) and a list of food you can bring to feed all the animals.
🐑🐐Please DO NOT try to feed the baby goats or the lambs anything while you are here-they only drink their moms milk!
😷MASKS REQUIRED!!😷
😷APPOINTMENTS REQUIRED !!😷
Winterpast FarmSchedule:
Sun May 9 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4) 1/2 price for Mothers❤️🌷
CLOSED Mon/Tues
Wed May 12 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 13 CLOSED
Fri May 14 OPEN 12-5 ❤️BABY GOAT DAY!
(pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 15 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 16 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues CLOSED
Wed May 19 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 20 CLOSED
Fri May 21 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 22 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 23 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs CLOSED
Fri May 28 OPEN ❤️EMU SELFIE DAY❤️
Sat May 29 OPEN 12-5 after a private group
Sun May 30 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon (MEMORIAL DAY) OPEN 10-6 half price admission for all retired and active military🇺🇸
Sweet VALENTINE🐐 hopes you will come for a snuggle soon at Winterpast Farm Petting Zoo in Wake Forest NC. Please remember that baby goats grow fast and that baby goat snuggling season will soon be over for the year.❤️🐐❤️🐐❤️
Farmer Mary has sold some of the babies to other local farms and they will be moving when they wean in a few weeks. Get your baby goat snuggles soon at Winterpast Farm Petting Zoo in Wake Forest NC!❤️🐐❤️🐐❤️
🦃Please read the entire “Your Visit” section at www.winterpast.org to learn how you can schedule a farm visit, our admission price (cash only) and a list of food you can bring to feed all the animals.
🐑🐐Please DO NOT try to feed the baby goats or the lambs anything while you are here-they only drink their moms milk!
❤️Thank you for supporting a small local farm family animal rescue.
😷MASKS REQUIRED!!😷
😷APPOINTMENTS REQUIRED !!😷
Winterpast FarmSchedule:
Sat May 8 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 9 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4) 1/2 price for Mothers❤️🌷
CLOSED Mon/Tues
Wed May 12 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 13 CLOSED
Fri May 14 OPEN 12-5 ❤️BABY GOAT DAY!
(pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 15 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 16 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues CLOSED
Wed May 19 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 20 CLOSED
Fri May 21 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 22 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 23 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs CLOSED
Fri May 28 OPEN ❤️EMU SELFIE DAY❤️
Sat May 29 OPEN 12-5 after a private group
Sun May 30 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon (MEMORIAL DAY) OPEN 10-6 half price admission for all retired and active military🇺🇸
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Here are highlights from the much longer YOUR VISIT section at the website.
1. Admission is $10 cash for all ages. Tiny babies in arms that Farmer Mary will not interact with do not have to pay. $10 adults $10 teens $10 children except tiny babies in arms or confined to strollers. Cash ONLY-Farmer Mary has had way too many bad checks returned lately!. No credit cards. Please be ready to pay on arrival. No change is available. Please respect our admission price. No change is available. Please respect our admission price. Please be prepared to pay on arrival. No credit cards. Please do not plan to debate our admission fee at the gate.
😷 Masks required😷.
2. Our parking lot is small so park CLOSE together and pull in close to the plywood pig faces marking parking spots. The address is 12936 Ghoston Road, Wake Forest NC 27587. Located near Falls Lake at the end of Six Forks Road at Highway 98. Make an appointment to visit. Park at a pig.🐷Pull up close to the parking pigs. Park mindfully of others. Someone will be parking behind you. Please don’t leave trash in the parking lot. There is a trashcan right there. If the lot is full do not park blocking the gate. Park on the road in front of the farm with all four wheels OFF the road.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Do not go down the neighbors private road behind our barn even if your GPS says to turn!! This makes Farmer Mary’s neighbors very angry as it should.
3. How to make an appointment:Check open hours posted on website or facebook page or Instagram then TEXT your very specific request of how many people at what time on what date to schedule your visit. Please text only between 8am and 10pm. Farmer Mary will not return texts made at other times! Please keep in mind if you text Farmer Mary during posted open hours she will probably be too busy running the farm to text you right back. Farmer Mary likes to know when people are coming so she can be available near the gate. She doesn’t want to be ten acres back fixing a fence when you arrive!
Please don’t text “Hi can we come Thursday?” PLEASE BE SPECIFIC to avoid endless back and forth texts. For example you could text “group of five moms and six kids this Thursday June 12 at noon for picnic lunch and tour?” Farmer Mary is busy and cannot chat on the phone. Please text your very specific request of how many people at what time on what date to schedule your visit. Please do not message Farmer Mary on Facebook. She DOES NOT hang out on FB all day long. YOU will be very happy if she doesn’t spend all her time on the phone while YOU are visiting.
Please do NOT text to ask if you can visit the farm on a day the posted schedule says the farm is closed! Please read the schedule first. Text. Text. Text. 919-244-1800. Please text your very specific request of how many people at what time on what date to schedule your visit.Please text only between 8am and 10pm. Farmer Mary will not return texts made at other times. Once you have texted a specific time and size of group to visit on a specific day posted open occasionally Farmer Mary gets too busy to return texts so just come on unless it is raining. If raining she posts a update to the schedule at 8am.
4. BRING FOOD FOR FEEDING THE ANIMALS!
some general favorites are kale, collards, romaine lettuce, whole wheat crackers (ritz or saltines are best), parsley, cilantro, a few slices of whole wheat bread, peppers (red and yellow are more popular than green) plain cereal (plain cheerios are most popular), carrots ( if carrots are long and fat they will need to be cut into strips. Farmer Mary has knives or you can do this at home to get to feeding the animals quicker), leafy celery, green beans, thinly sliced apples, grapes. NO moldy bread, NO white bread, NO salty junk food like chips or pretzels, NO candy, NO lemons or limes , NO raw potatoes, NO French fries or other salty leftovers. NO junk food.
Farmer Mary tries to have $5 mixed buckets of food for sale and sometimes has sleeves of whole wheat crackers, cereal or corn in baggies available for sale. You will have more fun with more animal food! Please do not allow your children to take or beg animal food from other visitors buckets. If you choose not to bring or buy food please do not offer your fingers to the animals. Most visitors who choose to are able to meet, feed and hold bunnies, guinea pigs, chicks when available, chickens, baby goats and whatever else is small and cuddly.
Please keep in mind the size of the animal and don’t give a huge carrot to a baby goat or half an apple to an emu and expect them to be able to swallow it. We have had instances of choking and near death due to poor feeding choices made by visitors. Always simply think before you feed. And if Farmer Mary asks that you not feed baby goats and lambs while they are little and just nursing please do what she says!!!! No food is to be given to any dogs unless you bring real dog treats.
5. Of course there is a bathroom and hand washing. You will see the orange portojohn in the parking lot as of November 2019. Please accompany small children to the toilet and please CLOSE THE GATE if you leave the petting zoo area to use the toilet during your visit) and hand washing (sink and hot water at the barn)
6. Please plan to keep a very very very close eye on your children while you are here. Including while they are on our hammocks and especially while they are holding and feeding animals. Do not allow them to pick up animals or open or close any cages. Allowing children to open cages leads to animals dying. Watch your children at all times!
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🐥Farmer Mary had ALOT of baby chicks ranging from two weeks old (shown here) to 10 weeks old for sale at Winterpast Farm Petting Zoo in Wake Forest NC. Farmer Mary has loaned eggs and incubators to many local classrooms and these are the babies.
🐓Big variety of breeds, mostly full size and some bantams (smaller size). Usually $5 each at this age but happy to give discounts to make room for all the turkey babies and quail babies hatching soon.
❤️Wouldn’t your Mother love some baby chicks for Mothers Day? Please SHARE with friends who like to buy local.
🪴Buy home grown garden plants here! 🍅🌶Tomatoes, peppers, herbs…Paid farm visit not required for plant purchase. Text Farmer Mary at 9192441800.🪴
🐖Please read the entire “Your Visit” section at www.winterpast.org to learn how you can schedule a farm visit, our admission price (cash only) and a list of food you can bring to feed all the animals.
🐑🐐Please DO NOT try to feed the baby goats or the lambs anything while you are here-they only drink their moms milk!
😷MASKS REQUIRED😷
😷APPOINTMENTS REQUIRED 😷
Winterpast Farm Schedule:
Fri May 7 CLOSED/RAIN
Sat May 8 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 9 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4) 1/2 price for Mothers❤️🌷
CLOSED Mon/Tues
Wed May 12 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 13 CLOSED
Fri May 14 OPEN 12-5 ❤️BABY GOAT DAY!
(pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 15 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 16 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues CLOSED
Wed May 19 OPEN 10-2 (pasture walk 12&1)
Thurs May 20 CLOSED
Fri May 21 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sat May 22 OPEN 10-5 (pasture walk 12&2)
Sun May 23 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs CLOSED
Fri May 28 OPEN ❤️EMU SELFIE DAY❤️
Sat May 29 OPEN 12-5 after a private group
Sun May 30 OPEN 12-5 (pasture walk 2&4)
Mon (MEMORIAL DAY) OPEN 10-6 half price admission for all retired and active military🇺🇸