Amy’s Food & Farm Tours at Hartshorn Organic Farm in Vermont. As Featured on HGTV!

Amy’s Vermont Food & Farm Tours aren’t typical farm visits—they’re immersive, hands-on, sensory learning experiences that reconnect people with real food, real soil, and their own wellbeing.

Led by organic farmer, educator, and green living expert Amy (Todisco) Hartshorn, these tours blend storytelling, tasting, harvesting, ecology, and practical inspiration. Participants touch the soil, sample fresh-picked produce, explore the hydroponic greenhouse, visit the maple sugarhouse, and learn how food, health, and land are deeply connected.

This is part tour, part workshop, part awakening—designed for food lovers, health seekers, and anyone curious about how clean, nutrient-dense food is grown in harmony with nature.

You’ll leave nourished, informed, and inspired… often ready to start a garden, rethink your shopping habits, or fall back in love with real food.

Who the Tours Are For

  • adults and teens who crave meaningful, educational experiences

  • foodies, gardeners, homesteaders, wellness seekers

  • travelers wanting an authentic Vermont connection

  • people tired of industrial food and ready to reconnect to the source

(Not primarily designed for young children — the content is rich, interactive, and best suited for ages 9+.)

What Makes These Tours Different

Embodied wisdom

Not theory—decades of organic farming, clean living education, and lived experience.

Hands-on participation

Harvest, taste, plant, identify herbs, explore growing methods.

Multi-dimensional food literacy

Organic agriculture, hydroponics, maple sugaring, soil health, flavor, nutrients.

Nature + nervous system connection

Slow down, breathe, feel the land—people leave grounded and reset.

A spark of transformation

Many guests say it changed how they eat, shop, and think about food forever.

Option 1 — Organic Farm, Hydroponic Greenhouse, Maple Sugarhouse & Garden Tour
(No Lunch)

90 minutes | $70 ages 9+ | $35 ages 4–8 | 3 and under free

Taste seasonal produce, explore organic farming, visit the hydroponic system, learn maple sugaring history, and discover healing plants growing in the garden.

Option 2 — Organic Farm, Hydroponic Greenhouse, Maple Sugarhouse & Garden Tour
+ Farm-to-Table Lunch

120 minutes | $100 ages 9+ | $50 ages 4–8 | 3 and under free
3-adult minimum or $300 flat rate

Includes everything above plus a fresh, homemade lunch featuring ingredients harvested during your visit (menu varies by season).

What Guests Say

Guests describe these tours as:

  • “eye-opening”

  • “deeply nourishing”

  • “a reset button for my relationship with food”

  • “the highlight of our Vermont trip”

About Amy

Amy (Todisco) Hartshorn is a nationally recognized green living educator, organic farmer, podcast host, and upcoming TEDx speaker. She has spent more than 30 years teaching people how to detox their food, homes, and lives—and once caught the attention of a producer from The Oprah Winfrey Show. She served as the technical editor for Green Living for Dummies and has been featured on HGTV and in multiple media outlets.

Get In Touch

Tours fill quickly each summer.
To check availability or schedule your group:

Contact Me to Book Your Tour

Located at:

Hartshorn Farm
54 Quarry Road (Route 100)
Waitsfield, Vermont

Option #1: Organic Farm/Hydroponic Greenhouse/Backyard Garden- No Lunch. Fee:
$70/person ages 9 and up. Children 4-8 are $35. Ages 3 and under are free.

Pluck a pea off the vine as you learn about organic agriculture and the history of Hartshorn Farm, where your tour guide, Amy, lives.

Amy's organic farmer life partner, Dave, is also a fifth generation sugarmaker. Check out the maple sugarhouse. Find out how maple syrup was discovered. Taste some syrup.

Pop a sweet cherry tomato into your mouth. Pick some blueberries. Put your hands in the warm soil and plant something. Harvest some veggies for your lunch time salad in the farm stand. We will enjoy a homemade mostly organic lunch. Other offerings may include farm made pesto with watercress and basil, veggie tempura, massaged kale with peanut sauce, large garden salad, and herb tea. (New option for a shorter tour without lunch too.)

Learn about the 10 year journey that Dave spent as one of the three founding partners of Green Mountain Harvest Hydroponic greenhouse. Though Dave sold his shares in that business in April of 2021, we have a homeowner sized hydroponic setup to showcase to visitors.

Looking to create your own beautiful and productive veggie, medicinal herb and flower garden? Check out Amy's healing garden for inspiration. Discover what might be growing in your yard that you can use to heal. Activities vary depending upon the time in the season.

Each tour is customized to meet the needs and interests of the group that shows up, which means each tour/workshop will be slightly different.

Come with your curiosity and ask questions. Eat, Play, Learn.

book your tour

Option #2: Organic Farm, Hydroponic, Backyard Garden and Maple Sugarhouse Workshop/Tour-90-minute tour plus a farm fresh, just picked and lovingly prepared, organic & hydroponic

$100/person (ages 9 and up) and a farm fresh lunch. Children 4-8 are $50, 3 and under are free.

Please note: There is a three adult person minimum, or the flat rate of $300 for less than 3 adults.