Summer
Overnight Camp Programs
You’ll experience life as farmers do because you’ll actually be living at the farm. You’ll wake to the music of roosters crowing at the rising sun. You’ll feed the animals, tend the garden, and gather eggs. You’ll have the opportunity to milk a cow or a goat. You’ll make and sample the wonderful things that farmers make from milk: butter and cheese. Our staff will teach you traditional homesteading crafts such as soap-making and basketry. You’ll swim in the creek. You might get to exercise your problem-solving skills rounding up escaped animals or improve your construction skills by repairing whatever allowed them to escape in the first place. You’ll work hard—the way farmers always have—but at the end of the day you’ll have the very farmerly satisfaction of preparing your own harvest for dinner, eating homemade, fresh bread and butter, and seeing “your” animals contentedly chewing their cuds. In the evening, you’ll sing around the campfire, or take a walk as dusk settles into night, or join your cabin-mates to produce a skit. You’ll make friends from all over our country and learn to care for the people, animals and plants on our planet Earth.
Weeklong Summer Girls
Overnight Programs, 2010
For girls who are 6 to 11 years old.
Session 1: June 28 - July 2
Session 2: July 5 - 9
Session 3: July 12 - 16
Session 4: July 19 - 23
Session 5: July 26 - 30
Session 6: August 2 - 6
Session 7: August 9 - 13
Weeklong sessions begin on Sunday afternoon after 3:30 and end on Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.
Project Harvest
Project Harvest is a weeklong service program giving girls and boys the opportunity to live together at Sprout Creek Farm while working at an organic garden, a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), and a soup kitchen. From growing and harvesting to feeding others and themselves, participants enjoy new experiences, make new friends and gain broader perspectives. During this week “Harvesters” learn more about those in need, the world around them, and, in turn, themselves.
