Care For Animals
Harvest Veggies
Make Friends
Open Houses
Farm Camp
Spend This Summer On A Farm!
Farm Camp is a hands-on, working farm experience for children entering grades 2–10, set on 515 acres just a hayride away from East Valley Ranch. Campers care for animals, tend the garden, and harvest food while learning what it means to live a healthy, sustainable life through real, daily responsibility and connection to the land.
Farm Camp is also intentionally designed with youth development at its core. Campers live in age and gender-based Mongolian yurts and spend their days together as one integrated community. This structure creates natural opportunities for mentorship, leadership, and collaboration across ages. With meaningful responsibility, camper choice, and supportive guidance from staff, children build independence, confidence, problem-solving skills, and empathy while learning how to be part of a community.
Alongside farm work, campers enjoy the simple joys of summer camp, including boating, arts and crafts, games, water activities, and evenings around the campfire. Together, these experiences support the growth of the whole child and reflect our core values: inclusive and diverse, caring and connected, honest and respectful, responsible and accountable.
Seedlings
A One-Week Farm Camp Experience
Offered Sessions 1A (girls+), 1B (boys+), 4A (girls+) and 4B (boys+)
The Seedlings program offers everything we love about farm camp packed into a brand-new one-week experience for campers entering grades 2-4.
“When I picked up my daughter from Farm Camp she immediately said, ‘Can I please go to two sessions next summer?'”
– Theo, Farm Camper Parent
FARM CAMP ACTIVITIES
Learn about the care of a variety of livestock including goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, cows, and rabbits. Pick berries, learn where your food comes from, harvest, prepare, cook, pickle, make jams, compost, plant, save seeds, be a steward of our 3-acre garden space, and don’t forget your appetite for homegrown, healthy foods! Collect eggs, muck stalls, harvest veggies, and enjoy family-style meals. Learn blacksmithing, wool arts, candle making, soap making, and cooking in the kitchen.
SPECIAL EVENTS
On the first Thursday of each session, campers pack up and hike out for an overnight. On the Saturday in the middle of each session, Farm Campers have a fun theme day! On the Sunday in the middle of each session, Farm Campers have a Harvest Dinner – a potluck-style meal for which each yurt prepares a dish to share and eat outside at picnic tables.
FARM CAMP DAILY SCHEDULE
- Chores & Morning Meeting – 7:15 am
Farm Camp days start bright and early. Chores begin at 7:15 am, and everyone pitches in to care for the farm. Chores range from feeding the animals to collecting chicken eggs. - Breakfast – 8:00 am
- Specialty #1 – 9:00 am
Specialties are 4-day skill-building classes. Each camper will participate in 6 different specialties. The farm curriculum includes Barn, Garden, and 4 specialties of the campers’ choosing. There will be a variety of choices such as sports, arts, hiking, cooking, dancing, outdoor skills, and more! - Specialty #2 – 10:00 am
During these specialties, campers might be found harvesting green beans, writing a creative story, building an obstacle course for the goats, and much, much more! - Specialty #3 – 11:00 am
More fun times will be had as campers continue with their farm specialties. - Lunch – 12:00 pm
- Rest Hour – 1:00 pm
- Campers Choice & Waterfront – 2:00 pm
This activity period is offered as a way for campers to try something new each day! Maybe an adventure in the ferns, pickling, bunny snuggling, a raspberry picking contest… the possibilities are endless! During this time, certified lifeguards lead water programs such as creeking in our very own section of the Neversink River and boating on our pond! - Snack Time & Circle Up Activity – 3:30 pm
- Yurt Time – 4:00 pm
Yurt Time is a special opportunity for campers to bond and spend intentional time with their yurt group. Whether they’re heading out on a wacky adventure or winding down by the pond for a little spa time, these moments of connection are foundational to our camp community.
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Afternoon Meeting – 5:15 pm
- Dinner – 5:30 pm
- Evening Chores – 6:00 pm
- Evening Program – 6:30 pm
Capture the flag, stargazing, night awareness, campfires, challenge night, sing-alongs, USB, and more… - Lights Out! Goodnight, Farm! – 9:30 pm
