SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Slide Ranch is a unique outdoor education facility. Our programs offer a rich coastal landscape where wildlands meet human habitation and agriculture. Students engage with our goats, sheep, chickens, organic garden, and beehives. Most programs include a farm-to-table activity where students harvest and prepare a healthy snack together. Slide Ranch Outdoor Instructors weave sustainable agriculture and honorable harvest into each of our hands-on programs while fostering wonder, curiosity, and student-centered exploration and discovery. Throughout our programs, we celebrate our interconnection with the land and our food systems.
All K-12 programming is aligned with Next Generation Science Content Standards. Learn more about our education programs and see a sample schedule.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2025-2026 School Year! Apply early for best consideration. Program dates fill quickly.
Generous scholarships are available! School and Community groups will be considered for needs and organizational mission-based scholarships based on information in your program application.
Scouts BSA and Girl Scouts! See below for the variety of badges a Slide Ranch program can fulfill.
Learn more about Slide Ranch before your visit!
Testimonials & slide show
Slide Ranch offers field trip programs in the spring (January - May) and fall (September - December). Questions? Email us!
Transportation
Transportation is an important consideration in planning your visit to Slide Ranch. Due to the rural (and beautiful) location of our site, public transportation is not available. Most commonly, and depending on resources available, groups travel to our site by car, vans, charter buses or school district buses. Slide Ranch staff are available to answer any questions you may have about transportation, and can share charter bus referrals and commonly used fundraising ideas with you. Slide Ranch may also provide a limited quantity of need-based scholarships toward the cost of transportation. For more information, please contact the program office at (415) 381-6155 or admin@slideranch.org.
There is a transportation grant available to low-income schools in the Bay Area. Through the Transportation Fund, the Environmental Volunteers provides affordable, easy-to-schedule, efficient and safe transportation for low-income youth (K-12) in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates access to science and environmental education field trips. Update: EVOLs is still accepting applications, but only for a spot on their waiting list. They are not approving new funding at this time.
There may be additional funding available from Justice Outside through their Outdoor Trips Fund.
Please be in touch by phone or email with any questions or concerns: 415-381-6155 or admin@slideranch.org