Writing about Flint Hill Farm?

Flint Hill Farm Educational Center is a nonprofit working dairy farm on 27 preserved acres in Coopersburg, Lehigh County, twenty minutes from Allentown and Bethlehem. The farm dates to about 1850. Kathleen Fields, a certified nurse-midwife, has run it since 1997: first as a dairy and, since 2006, as a 501(c)(3) educational center too.

Its mission is to bridge the gap between the urban and suburban community and the farm. School groups from pre-K through 8th grade, scout troops and homeschool co-ops come for field trips. Children spend summer weeks at farm camp. Adults take hands-on cheese making and bread baking classes and riding lessons, and volunteers and interns learn the farm's work.

The self-serve farm store sells raw and pasteurized milk from the farm's Jersey cows and dairy goats, with eggs, butter, yogurt and cheese made on the farm. Program fees cover about half of what it costs to run the farm; gifts cover the rest.

• Where food comes from. Most kids in Lehigh County have never touched a cow. For many of the children who visit, a school trip here is the first time food has had a face on it.
• A farm that can't be developed. Twenty-seven preserved acres between Allentown and Quakertown, run as a nonprofit.
• Make it yourself. Hands-on cheese making: chèvre and mozzarella in a morning, or cheddar over a full day, and you take home what you make.
• Raw milk, honor box. A PA-certified raw milk dairy with a self-serve farm store.
• Through the year. Pick-your-own pumpkins in October, summer farm camp, and Jersey-milk ice cream on Pennsylvania's Scooped ice cream trail.

More than 200 photos in six albums, and the videos made about the farm, are in our photo gallery. They are free to use in coverage of the farm, with credit to Flint Hill Farm. Click any photo there to open the full-size file.

Discover Lehigh Valley has visited twice, State Rep. Justin Simmons toured the farm in 2018, and Lehigh Valley Style profiled the farm and Kathleen Fields in 2025.