September 2026

What a week at farm camp looks like

Camp is over for 2026. Before the photographs go in a folder and stay there, here is what a week actually looks like on this farm.

Every camp week runs Monday through Friday, 8:30 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon, from late June into early August. Animals in the morning, something made or found in the afternoon, lunch on the grass under the fruit trees. The pictures below are our own, from our own weeks. None of them was set up for a brochure.

The morning is animals

Children and an adult in a summer pasture feeding cut evergreen branches to a herd of dairy goats that crowd in to browse the needles — Goats will eat a pine branch out of your hand.

A dairy goat will take a cut evergreen branch straight out of a child's hand, which is the kind of thing a camper goes home and tells the family about. Every camper meets the horses too, whichever camp they are in.

A camp group on the gravel drive watching an adult hold a saddled dark bay horse in front of two red barns painted with murals — Every camper meets the horses.

Lunch is on the grass

Campers in bright green camp shirts sitting in groups on the farm lawn eating lunch, with shade trees and the farmhouse behind them — Lunch under the fruit trees.

The afternoon is something made, or something found

Some afternoons it is paint and paper plates. Some afternoons it is a walk, and the walk decides what the afternoon is about: a toad, a salamander on the forest floor, wineberries along the hedgerow when they are in season.

A child's cupped hands holding a small brown American toad, photographed from above — Found on the wilderness walk.

Two cupped hands holding a small brown redback salamander found on the forest floor — So was this.

A child holding a small woven basket of foraged wineberries while standing in tall grass — Wineberries, in season, along the hedgerow.

Three small children holding up paper-plate animal crafts they have painted, an adult in a farm staff t-shirt kneeling behind them — And everyone makes something to take home.

Eight young children sitting together on a rope hammock on the farm lawn, the shingled farmhouse behind them — The hammock, most afternoons.

Horse Lovers gets four hours a morning

Horse Lovers Camp spends four hours every morning riding and working around horses, then crafts and horse programs after lunch. It is not all saddle time. Part of it is a whiteboard in the barn and the parts of a hoof, named properly: wall, sole, frog, white line.

Children with hands raised in a barn classroom while an instructor teaches from a whiteboard diagram of a horse's hoof labelled wall, sole, frog and white line — Real anatomy, on a whiteboard in the barn.

Riders need long pants and shoes with a heel. Helmets rent for $5 a day if you do not have one.

Three camps, by age

Kindercamp, ages 4 to 6. Animal interaction and farm exploration for the age, themed by week. Campers must be fully potty-trained. Friday is Family Day, and parents are invited.
Farm Camp, ages 7 to 14. Time split between gardening, animal care and handling, and forestry projects.
Horse Lovers Camp, ages 7 to 14. Four hours of riding and horse activities each morning, crafts and horse programs in the afternoon.

Tuition is $400 per child per week, with a $200 non-refundable deposit at registration. Second child from the same family is 10 percent off. After-care is $5 per half hour.

Next summer

Each summer's week-by-week themes are set over the winter, and camp runs late June into early August. If you want to know when next year's weeks are posted, put your email on the list at the bottom of the summer camp page, or call Kathy at (610) 838-2928.