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Dahlonega Butterfly Farm | A Top Among the Attractions In Dahlonega Georgia
Dahlonega Butterfly farm is the only butterfly farm in North Georgia and we are the only one of the attractions in Dahlonega Georgia that allows you to feed a butterfly. We offer the rare opportunity to get up close and personal with hundreds of free flying butterflies in our 900 square foot indoor flight house. The flight house is equipped with a paved walkway that is wheelchair accessible. Prepare to be amazed when you step through the doors of our butterfly flight house. The flight house provides a safe haven for these beautiful creatures. Once inside the flight house, you will be given a nectar stick and one of our team members will gladly show you the proper way to feed a butterfly. You will be amazed with our team and their wealth of knowledge. They are here and ready to answer all of your questions about butterflies, plants, insects and more. Explore one of the premier family outings around and witness the wonder of our indoor flight house!
Indoor Flight House Experience
After visiting the flight house, you can wander next door to our live caterpillar hut where you will get a rare, close up view of the lifecycle of the butterfly. Here you will see chrysalis on display and you may even have the rare opportunity to catch one of them emerging from their chrysalis, where they gracefully hang to dry their wings before taking flight. Daily we collect these beautiful species and transport them to our flight house where they can enjoy all the lovely flowers and plants that we have to offer to them.
Live Caterpillar Hut | A Rarity Amongst the Attractions In Dahlonega Georgia
You may wander around the caterpillar hut where we have begun to rear butterflies and educate yourself on host plants, nectar plants and learn all about frass! You can see the numerous types of caterpillars and how they all look different in their chrysalis form, learn about what you can do at home to provide a safe haven for these insects. We are here to help in your journey to building your pollinator garden. Discover one of the most unique attractions in Dahlonega Georgia at our live caterpillar hut!
Pop-Up Shelters and Butterfly Breeding
Upon exiting the caterpillar hut, check out our new pop-up shelters where we are gracefully breeding native butterflies. Here you will see how this process happens and be able to ask questions about them. We also have a very new and improved butterfly breeding home that we have named our “butterfly love shack”. Here we have provided all of the necessary requirements for our butterflies to frolic, dance, and be merry with their mates so they can gracefully reproduce under our watch and not be concerned about predators. If a break is what you need from all of the butterfly education then it’s time to wander through our beautiful flower gardens. In our gardens, you will find hundreds of species of pollinating plants and flowers that we have provided for our butterfly guests. Butterflies gladly visit our property daily and we are always so excited to spot a new species and share that with you. You will find an assortment of host plants in our garden and we encourage you and your family to go on a caterpillar hunt in the wild. Let us know if you find any so we can mark where they are and keep a close watch on them. Experience the top attractions in Dahlonega Georgia with our educational pop-up shelters and butterfly breeding.
Flower Gardens and Nature Trail
Next, take a walk on our nature trail and look for our naughty gnomes. The gnomes are a recent addition to the farm and they like to hide out in the woods. We will provide you with a gnome scavenger hunt sheet so you can identify them yourself and you may even find a few that we don’t know about yet. They often move around so pay close attention as you are wandering and if you are really observant, you may even stumble upon their gnome home! If gnomes aren’t enough, we encourage you to reconnect with nature and take the time to sit and listen to nature and identify the sounds of the birds, the bees and many other things. Visit one of the must-see attractions in Dahlonega Georgia and explore our serene flower gardens and nature trail!
Nature Trail and Gnome Scavenger Hunt
If all of this adventure is enough for you then take some time to just sit and relax at one of our lovely seating areas and watch the outdoors come to life. While sitting, and listening quietly, you may discover some other amazing creatures like bees, bugs, insects, frogs, and even lizards. Meeting up with one of our 4-legged farm hands like Jimmy or Rusty is always a treat among guests. You may find yourself enjoying some quiet time at our frog holler but watch out because our resident bullfrog may make some noise. Enjoy the natural attractions in Dahlonega Georgia with our peaceful seating areas and wildlife observation spots!
Seating Areas and Wildlife Observation
Our plant house is the perfect place to gather up some local plants for your garden. We also sell host plants for butterflies and we love to help you to find the perfect match for your garden. If it’s a deer resistant plant, a perennial or even a houseplant, we are here to help. During the Summer months, we offer our beautiful milkweed plants for sale and if you’re lucky to get here early enough then we can even put together one of our beautiful lifecycle caterpillar kits so you can take it home and watch the magic happen right before your own eyes. We’ll teach you exactly what to do and once your beautiful Monarch emerges, you can release her from your own yard.
Plant House and Milkweed Plants
If the kids need to run off a little steam, we offer a kids play area with hula hoops, hopscotch, buckets and pails, and just some good old fashioned fun. Plan your visit to one of the top attractions in Dahlonega Georgia and explore our diverse plant house and milkweed plants!
Kids Play Area
The new and improved rock river has moved! Our rock garden has been so popular that we had to create a rock river. You can pick a rock from our rock pile at the painting station and paint a lovely picture on it to add to our river. Then when you come back to visit next time, we encourage you to find the rock in the river. Some of our guests prefer to take their rocks home. We just ask that you please leave a small donation to the farm to pay for the rock if you would like to take it home. New at the farm this year is our cut flower garden beds and our wildflower trails. We have planted 100’s of dahlias, zinnias, wildflowers and more and hope to provide our guests with cut flowers.
Rock River and Cut Flower Garden Beds
When you visit the farm, please remember that we are a working farm, we pride ourselves on maintaining a natural environment for the butterflies. You won’t find perfectly manicured lawns or pristine gardens.
Picnic Plans?
There are several locations throughout the farm to enjoy a snack or a picnic. We do ask that you respect nature and stay in the designated areas and off of the flowers and plants. If you have a large group that would like to enjoy a picnic, we do offer a pavilion rental, check with one of our team members for more information. We offer a picnic area for classes to stay and reflect on what they have learned while at the farm, this gives teachers the opportunity to ask questions and educate their students in an outdoor classroom setting.
Picnic Areas and Pavilion Rental
About our Garden area: Our garden areas mimic the feel of a cottage garden. We have numerous host plants for various butterflies, offering them the ideal setting to mate and lay eggs, some of our host plants include milkweed, sumac, spicebush, goldenrod, passionvine, tulip trees, paw paw trees, our herb garden with black fennel, dill and parsley which hosts the swallowtail butterfly and plantain for our little buckeyes. In addition to these host plants we have provided our butterflies with hundreds of nectar plants. Some of these plants include lantana, rudbeckia, aster, bee balm, mountain mint, sunflowers, violets, clover fields, tickseeds, hollyhocks, snapdragons, and butterfly weed.
