About
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp offers professionally guided, hands-on educational farm tours where children can interact face-to-face with American farm animals. Activities include seeing and interacting with goats, pigs, sheep, and baby pigs, milking a cow, catching chickens, taking a hayride, exploring a barn maze, and enjoying pony rides and horseback riding. The program also includes educational field trips, singing around campfires, and time to eat lunch in oak tree-shaded picnic areas with a view of Crescent Lake, and visitors are invited to bring a lunch.
• Ages: 3–12 years old
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp is part of Camp Keystone, which is described as Florida’s oldest continuously inhabited camp and was established in 1946. Old McMicky’s Farm opened in 1991, re-opened in 2013, and has been described as a Tampa Bay tradition for over 65 years, with Camp Keystone hosting campers for six decades. The program’s mission is “To Continue the Tradition of Fun, Education and Creating Great Memories for Kids and Families in the Tampa Bay Area, and to Give Back to our Community.”
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp offers guided tours with professional tour guides and a hands-on educational experience showing how life is lived on an American farm, and it is described as an educational farm and day camp teaching about farm animals and farm life, not a petting zoo. Historically, its field trips have served about 30,000 Tampa Bay area children every year, and it also offers field trips and group tours, individual and family outings, kids’ birthday parties, weddings, corporate events, private celebrations, quinceañeras, and special and holiday events.
The program’s community involvement includes the “1000 Kids” program for children facing challenges, child adoption support events, free military weddings, and creating an “amazing day of fun-filled memories” for children and wounded veterans facing challenges. The OMF Foundation is a 501c3, and 100% of the proceeds go to community programs, and Old McMicky’s Farm Community Giving Programs have received local, national, and Congressional recognition. Avalon Building Corporation of Tampa Bay is listed as a proud sponsor of Old McMicky’s Farm.
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp has received multiple awards and recognition, including being voted “BEST FARM” in Tampa Bay by Creative Loafing in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Best of the Bay. It received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition and Congressional Coin for “Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community,” was voted BrightHouse Networks/Bay News 9 2015 Viewer’s Choice Hero of the Year, and was an “Angels in Adoption” National Honoree from the Congressional Committee on Adoption. It also received a Special Commendation for Community Giving from the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners, its “Mission I Do” free military dream wedding was featured in People Magazine, and Good Morning America selected Old McMicky’s Farm / Barn at Crescent Lake to shoot live for their national morning show.
The leadership message on the About page is signed by Ralph Zuckerman. Testimonials from visitors describe the staff as “super friendly and hilarious,” mention that the location is “beautiful” and “very clean,” and note that children interacted with all the animals. Other testimonials describe it as “great for kids,” “very educational,” and a “beautiful place for a wedding,” and mention features such as a big area for eating, clean bathrooms, and a s’mores campfire at the end of a wedding event.
Last updated February 17, 2026.
• Ages: 3–12 years old
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp is part of Camp Keystone, which is described as Florida’s oldest continuously inhabited camp and was established in 1946. Old McMicky’s Farm opened in 1991, re-opened in 2013, and has been described as a Tampa Bay tradition for over 65 years, with Camp Keystone hosting campers for six decades. The program’s mission is “To Continue the Tradition of Fun, Education and Creating Great Memories for Kids and Families in the Tampa Bay Area, and to Give Back to our Community.”
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp offers guided tours with professional tour guides and a hands-on educational experience showing how life is lived on an American farm, and it is described as an educational farm and day camp teaching about farm animals and farm life, not a petting zoo. Historically, its field trips have served about 30,000 Tampa Bay area children every year, and it also offers field trips and group tours, individual and family outings, kids’ birthday parties, weddings, corporate events, private celebrations, quinceañeras, and special and holiday events.
The program’s community involvement includes the “1000 Kids” program for children facing challenges, child adoption support events, free military weddings, and creating an “amazing day of fun-filled memories” for children and wounded veterans facing challenges. The OMF Foundation is a 501c3, and 100% of the proceeds go to community programs, and Old McMicky’s Farm Community Giving Programs have received local, national, and Congressional recognition. Avalon Building Corporation of Tampa Bay is listed as a proud sponsor of Old McMicky’s Farm.
Old McMicky’s Farm Educational Tours & Day Camp has received multiple awards and recognition, including being voted “BEST FARM” in Tampa Bay by Creative Loafing in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Best of the Bay. It received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition and Congressional Coin for “Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community,” was voted BrightHouse Networks/Bay News 9 2015 Viewer’s Choice Hero of the Year, and was an “Angels in Adoption” National Honoree from the Congressional Committee on Adoption. It also received a Special Commendation for Community Giving from the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners, its “Mission I Do” free military dream wedding was featured in People Magazine, and Good Morning America selected Old McMicky’s Farm / Barn at Crescent Lake to shoot live for their national morning show.
The leadership message on the About page is signed by Ralph Zuckerman. Testimonials from visitors describe the staff as “super friendly and hilarious,” mention that the location is “beautiful” and “very clean,” and note that children interacted with all the animals. Other testimonials describe it as “great for kids,” “very educational,” and a “beautiful place for a wedding,” and mention features such as a big area for eating, clean bathrooms, and a s’mores campfire at the end of a wedding event.
Last updated February 17, 2026.
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