Idlewilde Farm

Idlewilde Farm Idlewilde Farm: a small, peaceful, working farm, veterans retreat, and petting farm & play area 4 kids. Thanks, Everyone! -Debbie and Dennis F. (Idlewilde Farm)
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Idlewilde Farm Petting Farm is open every day (about 9AM - 8PM). In addition to the farm animals, we have a tremendous play area for the kids. It's only $5 a child or a max of $15 a family. [Under 2yrs are free.] For day care and school classes, children are $5 and all teachers and other adults free. No need to RSVP (Leave your fees in the fee/donation box by the play area.) Message for any questi

ons; although we don't see your messages right-away. See OUR STORY for more; and remember that 10% of all proceeds go to a wounded warrior organization.

11/07/2024

If you're done with your pumpkins, the pigs would enjoy them, at Idlewilde Farm!

Hey, everyone. Weather's looking nice for baby goat yoga, Saturday morning at 9am, here on Idlewilde Farm. Just regis...
10/25/2024

Hey, everyone. Weather's looking nice for baby goat yoga, Saturday morning at 9am, here on Idlewilde Farm.
Just register with Zentral Station yoga studio and come on out to have some fun. A good time will be had by all; just ask the goats!

Fun for Everyone!

10/06/2024

Hope that answers your question

09/14/2024

Not Idlewilde Farm, but this might be how the minies get out!

Baby Goat Yoga at is going good this morning. Had Zoey, our mini-donkey out before, and then everybody fed the baby g...
08/24/2024

Baby Goat Yoga at is going good this morning.
Had Zoey, our mini-donkey out before, and then everybody fed the baby goats their bottles.
Then, the baby goats went around and helped everyone with their yoga! LoL

08/21/2024
This weekend, we had a fun session of goat yoga with Zentral Station here on Idlewilde Farm. (The baby goats had fun too...
08/11/2024

This weekend, we had a fun session of goat yoga with Zentral Station here on Idlewilde Farm. (The baby goats had fun too!)
Then, met a couple of families just bringing their kids to enjoy the animals and our big country play area. Brought out extra hay and feed so the kids could feed the mini-goats.

08/01/2024

18 Self-Seeding Plants - Plant Once & Watch Them Multiply

If you like the idea of planting something once and then watching it re-seed and spread around your backyard, then these plants are for you. Don't deadhead them, let the seedheads form and later in the year they'll drop their seeds ready to emerge next spring.

1. Calendula - Truly a gardener’s best friend, calendula is as beneficial as it is lovely. Bearing golden daisy-like flowers, calendula (or pot marigold) is an excellent companion plant for tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, asparagus, peas, lettuce, and more.

2. Cosmos - Cosmos provides a glorious display of blooms all season long – from June until the first frost.

3. Love-in-a-Mist - An unusual and eye-catching beauty, love-in-a-mist is so named for the single flowers that arise from bushy mounds of soft, airy, thread-like leaves. Appearing in a range of blues, but also sometimes lavender, pink, and white, love-in-a-mist’s blooms offer a fascinating show from June to August.

4. Field Poppy - A stunning specimen with papery petals and a distinctive black center, its blooms are usually scarlet red but sometimes appear in purple or white. It reaches 9 to 18 inches in height on a hairy stem with toothy leaves. Field poppies flower from late spring to early summer. When bloom time is over, its petals drop to reveal a capsule filled with small black seeds.

There are so many self-seeding plants for a truly hands free backyard. We've got more in the comments.

08/01/2024

Address

8710 Idlewilde Farm Place
La Plata, MD
20646

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

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(240) 682-0520

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Idlewilde Farm is a small, peaceful and quiet, working farm that we've set up as a retreat for veterans and a petting farm for day care/school field trips, individual family visits and children's parties. - Not only will the kids get to be around the animals and have fun in the large, country play area; they'll learn about the animals too. - The farm is always open to vets who just need a quiet place to come, and they can just hang out or work with the animals as they like. - Right now, we have alpaca, a couple of mini-horses (Stormy and Knox), a mini-donkey (Zander), our Steer (Jake) and two calves (Wilma and Betty), mini-goats (Batman, Ducky, Amy, Rosie, Mark, Doug, the Beatles, and more), pigs (Fern and Tammy, and some feeder pigs in another pen), emu (Emmy and Eddy), a couple of hair sheep (Baa-Baa and Sammy), rabbits, and barnyard fowl consisting of chickens, ducks, a tom-turkey (Tom-Tom), and peafowl (so far). - We’re only a short five minutes out of La Plata, fifteen minutes from Waldorf, easily reachable from all of Southern Maryland and less than 45 minutes from the beltway. With our background as a Marine and EOD family, we want to do our part. We feel that many of our veterans could really use the peaceful surroundings of Idlewilde Farm. We are not a non-profit; but, 20% of all proceeds (from the petting farm, etc.) go to a ‘wounded warrior’ charity. Hope you all enjoy our Idlewilde Farm FB page; and will enjoy the farm, itself. - Deb and Dennis Fikejs

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