Farm Camp 2022

Growing a more just, joyful and sustainable community since 2005

Farm Discovery

Ages 5-7

9am - 3pm

$350 - $500 per week

2022 Sessions

August 1 - 5

Aug 15 - 19

Make discoveries, use tools, and grow together. We have all the coolest tool/toys, and we're not afraid to use them - safely. Dig potatoes, build a bench, pull carrots, pick berries, feed animals and collect eggs. We also have fun making ice cream, felting sheep and bunny fiber, and floating sticks in the brook! Campers bring their own lunches and snacks then do tastings daily with farm fresh ingredients - homemade ice cream, smoothies, pizzas, pasta. Almost five/acts like five children by invitation. Get in touch!

GroW, Build, Cook

Ages 7 - 11

9am - 3pm with

Campfire Dinner and Overnight Option

$275 - $500 per week

2022 Dates

July: 15 - 18

August: 1-5

August 15 - 18

Try out different skills and tools on the farm and in the forest, choose your own projects, harvest and cook - the natural way to make new friends is working, laughing, eating, splashing, exploring together.

Campers bring their own lunches and snacks, while developing the skills to plan and cook their own campfire dinner on Thursday. Some might even choose to sleep over!

Farm Crew

Ages 12 - 15

9 - 4:00pm or

FOUR NIGHT CAMPING OPTION

$250 - $1500 per week

2022 Dates

July: 18-22

August 15-19

This hybrid program for ALL youth aged 12-15 includes a full overnight option, with experienced and fun leaders to help teens organize and manifest their hopes. It combines some of the best elements of The Putney School, Farm & Wilderness, and a teen artist colony - but on our small organic farm with a balance of laughing/goofy group time, the grounding work of daily life - harvest, cooking, animal care - and moments of solitude on our 38 magical acres.

The culture of Farm Camp is one of gratitude, curiosity, inclusion, laughter/word play/irony, creativity, and celebration. Youth work together with leaders to create a great experience for themselves. We have decades of experience facilitating youth coming together as a group: supporting their emerging identities and interests, and shining light on their contributions and great qualities.

What does this look like? The crew shares their hopes - then identifies what needs to be done and what wants to be done. Campers decide what they can harvest and what they need to buy for their meals and project supplies. Will they decide to build a new trail, control invasives, create a mural, build their own shelter? Perfect a new Farm Camp pizza, or make brioche with our eggs? Will you give a day to exploring down Rosie's Brook from the source to the West River...or try out being a leader with littles? Someone might want to run the farm kitchen, testing new recipes, creating a farm cookbook, feeding us.

Another unique aspect of Farm Crew is the option to do 9-4 days, with a campfire/overnight for the last night or two, or camp the entire week, from Monday night to Friday afternoon. This allows a greater mix of teens for the crew - from near and far; wanting to sleep over from the start or after building more comfort. Campfire cookouts, night games, stargazing, singing and laughing around the fire, and bleary-eyed breakfasts create lasting memories and bonds.

NOTE: It is our mission to help youth find their power and use it to create a more just, joyful and sustainable life. We strive for diversity in our corner of the world. We welcome youth from all socioeconomic levels, all family dynamics and beliefs, the whole infinite rainbow of possibilities of ways to be a young human. With the overnight option, youth can come from any place and situation and make this their home for a time.

Tuition based on an honor system sliding scale. Emphasis on honor.

We have no funds except through the sliding scale, which requires you to be as expansive and generous as possible - dig deep, knowing you are helping to fund a lifetime experience for your child and skills- building for a better world. This form of giving is paying it forward for someone who can't - and also allows your tuition costs to qualify for child care/tax credits.

A donation of $100 can reserve a space so there's one open when need arises. That's -paying $450 instead of $350, and saying you want it to go to a Scholarship Deposit.

Set up a monthly autopayment of $30 and you've just covered a Full Scholarship, spread over the year.

Volunteer to help drive a neighbor child or a friend from school - win-win, your child gets to bring a friend and a child who wouldn't otherwise come gets the Farm Camp community. Sometimes there is financial need, sometimes there's just not parental interest - lets focus on the child who would thrive here, and bring their fabulous self to our community.

When Farm Camp was founded in 2005, it was with the support of some parents who recognized the gift of our work through public farm-to-school field trips at Green Street School - some parents paid for their own children, made donations to the Scholarship Fund and some helped pick up kids whose parents weren't available to drive. Those were really great groups of kids with all different life experiences, coming together and doing great things while making new friends.

Because I no longer am involved in the local schools and I work an hour away, and because there are cheaper less empowerment oriented farm programs with grant funding, I need to work harder to get more kids here for each other.

if you are signing up for camp, share this link with your child's friends. Discuss car pools, and give them my contact information. Sometimes parenting is so hard - a camp without a bus can be one hurdle too many, regardless of cost.

Scholarships and Work Trade Available for CSA and Camp

If you can't afford the lower end of the Sliding Scale, please include a note at the end of your registration or call (802)380-7797. This goes direct to Lisa Holderness, with 30+ years of experience with confidentiality in school and organizations, and a lifetime of experience in the lower income group.

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