Bird's Eye View

The Olney Friends School campus comprises about 350 acres.

In the aerial photograph, you can see many important features of the land. Farm fields are located adjacent to top campus. The Kirk Barn, housing pigs, cattle, and goats, is a short walk from the dormitories. Students plant and harvest smaller crops in demonstration gardens behind the Main Building.

The land is a learning tool: geometry classes might study the angles at work in harvesting potatoes with our 1906-era potato digger. Early American history classes might plant a Three Sisters Garden: corn, beans, and squash. Later, they might serve a meal to the school with their fresh produce. Livezey Lake and Captina Creek are used by biology classes for macroinvertebrate studies, water quality sampling, and other experiments. You can ask any Bio student to identify for you any tree species on campus. Students have planted seedlings in Plummer Woods after a recent sustainable timber harvest to encourage red and white oak regeneration.