old mcfaye's farm

We have been going to this Farm for over three years and it never gets old. I don't know what is wrong with the last reviewer, but they are just plain mean! Ms. Mc Faye is one of the kindest, nicest people you will ever meet. Our 3 and 5 year old love her and we have had three Birthday Parties there back to back and all of them were great. The Farm is clean, the animals ( most of which are rescues) are well taken of and this farm is run for THEIR benefit. The scant amount she charges comes no where near what she spends in the care of these animals. We love this place and Highly recommend it for Birthday Parties and special events for small children.

Old McFaye's farm is a small local farmhouse with lots of farm animals like chickens, goats, rabbits, horses, a pig, geese, ducks, etc. Mrs. McFaye is great with kids and takes them on hayrides, horse rides around the corral, and hosts special events like birthday parties and outing for small school groups etc. Kids love it and its a great way to spend a few hours with your kids letting them get up close and personal with some friendly farm animals. I have to say the review by mylucylumpkins is inaccurate and ridiculous... of course we all realize this place is not disneyland, sorry if that is what you were expecting. It's just a small private residence with a barn and some farm animals but it's great fun for kids and they love it, and that's really all that matters... from the looks of it, 90% of her other reviews are negative too, so I guess that tells you something...

What a great, small town farm!! I've been here many, many times with my children and we absolutely love it. We have been with school, for birthday parties, and for the farm days that Mrs. McFaye offers. The animals are all sweet and well cared for. The children are allowed a true farming experience of feeding them and interacting with them. My children especially love riding and brushing the pony. Mrs. McFaye could not be sweeter. She loves what she does and it shows. The kids and animals alike adore her. When I took my children out for a farm day she drove my son around and around on the tractor and showed him some true farm chores...I think he would have moved in with her right then and there if I let him! When taking your children, the experience will not be about big city bells and whistles. It's about feeding chickens, learning to properly brush a pony, hay rides, finding treats in haystacks, picnics, running outside, laughing, etc. What all children in this modern world of iPads, computers, and gaming devices could stand a little more of.Lucy Lumpkins review is not at ALL an accurate depiction of this farm. Is it a multi-acre working farm with 100 cows and 15 farm hands? Of course not. It is a sweet local family that lives on a small, Southern farm. They aren't doing this to make it rich harvesting crops or steaks. They do it because they love it. In the many times I've been there, I've never once seen an animal that did not appear well loved or well cared for. Many are allowed to roam free. They have plenty of space and plenty of attention. Mrs. McFaye is kind, caring and extremely knowledgeable. And I find it hard to believe that ALL the parents complained. I've never heard a parent say anything but positive things about this farm!!A great place and I'll continue to take our family for as long as she lets us!!

I visited this location on a field trip with my daughter's class. According to parents and faculty members, it is an annual visit for all kindergarten classes. I found out later that many local schools visit this same farm. Parents were to send in $8 for the visit, which I had no problem with initially because it is roughly the standard price of admission for most educational field trips. Upon arrival I discovered that this is essentially a personal residence, which is odd. Although it is a given that people live on farms, it felt strange to pull up to what appeared to be and ordinary house. Beside the house was a dirt drive way leading to a broken down barn and run down pins. When Old McFaye finally showed herself she was clearly disheveled. In her dress blouse, jeans, and untied boots, it seemed like she may have forgotten there was a field trip of three kindergarten classes showing up that day. She introduced herself and her two farm hands, who were as ancient as the dilapidated barn. She exhausted herself just by speaking, and seemed dazed when trying to conjure information about her farm. At one point she asked the students to scare away the peacocks that were circling the vehicles because she said the peacocks see their reflections and attack the vehicles of visitors. With this she gather five and six year-olds and lead them in a chase shouting and screaming at the peacocks. After parents and teachers regained control, we moved on. There were four stations; a hay ride, a horse ride, and art station, and a barn tour. Four stations minus one farmer and two hands means that one station was completely without any kind of guidance from the hosts. Also, because it was a field trip the teachers had to float from group to group, leaving parents responsible for groups of children. The station without anyone assisting was the art station, which consisted of a stack of paper to color a picture from the farm. There were two pages of farm stickers which the kids fought for, and a block of melted crayons in an old ratty box. After their "art" was finished, they were allowed to feed some of the animals around that area. We could not find the food, or the farmer, or a hand... eventually a teacher showed us where the food was and the children fed goats and chickens. The other stations were equally disappointing. The horseback ride was one lap around a small enclosure, the hay ride was a ride in the back of a tractor around the small property with only room for one adult to supervise the group, and the barn tour was a joke. The stables were filthy with days worth of horse manure pilling in them, there were chickens everywhere, even in feed boxes, and the bathroom was disgusting. Probably one of the most hysterical parts was that instead of purchasing a cow, since she is in the business of farm tours, Old McFaye has a painted saw with a picture of a cow on it. This is used as an opener to discuss dairy cows, really, I'm not joking, a painting on a saw nailed above the stables. After the children ate their bagged lunches at dirty tables in between dirty animals after washing hands in an assembly line at the water hose, they were asked to put their scrapes in a bucket for the pot belly pig. Apparently the after lunch treat was to release the pig and a goats. When she released the pig there was not kind or order or structure to it, instead it was a tidal wave of chaos. It is the closest equivalent to a riot I have ever seen involving small children. As Old McFaye is laughing and enjoying herself, this pig is growling a rearing up at kindergartens. In the pigs defense, it was being crowded and chased, but she should have given instruction to anyone as to what was happening or that she was releasing the pig. Instead, she told children to reach into the table scarps bucket and feed the pig! So here we are with a violent, aggressive pig and kindergartners digging through sandwich and food scarps feeding it by hand! Probably the worst part of the visit was the state of the poor animals living there. The chickens were all losing their feathers. Old McFaye tried to say it was from old age, but not all of them were old, and the exposed skin was wet and slimy with infection or something. The horses were in small, dirty stalls. All of the animals were in makeshift pins that didn't suit their needs and they all seemed sad/aggressive and dirty. There was a pin put together with chicken wire that contained a few baby ducks, no water anywhere around, not pond, nothing, just a group of baby ducks huddled together. Just awful! I would not accept payment to visit this location again. In fact, if there is someway I could advise schools, or anyone, not to visit this location, I would. On top of this, I actually put money in this lunatic's pocket! I wish I had known. All of the other parents that chaperoned this field trip, at least on the visit that I attended, felt the same. It was a filthy, deplorable, horrible place and it would be doing everyone a favor to shut it down!