Earth Keepers Summer Camps
Registration Begins January 30, 2025, 5:30 PM MST
Cost: $475/week - scholarships available
“We are growing a better world for our children and better children for our world.”
Earth Keepers Community Day Camp *with 2 age groups, 5 -9yrs and 10-14yrs* inspires young people to care about the planet. Through hands-on activities with farmyard animals, gardening, creative art projects, & wilderness exploration, kids learn about healthy living & develop compassion for themselves, their families, their communities, and the world. The older group will help plant and harvest in our fields, feed our animals with daily chores, and take care of our plants in the growdome.
Our Earth Keepers camps are 5 days a week, from 10am-3pm, beginning in June
Summer 2025 Camp line up
Budding Beginnings June 2-6
Join us to get the farm planted and bursting with sprouts for the coming summer!
Have fun getting our FarmPark full of sprouts and seeds ready to grow all summer long. Learn how to sprout seeds for growing and eating and help the farmers work on our vegetable gardens. Experience chaos gardening, a fun free form way to plant seeds, and learn skills to bring home and use in your own garden or yard. Come to the farm to make seed bombs, plant flower seeds everywhere, and bring home a little sprout of your own!
Raising Baby Chicks June 9-13
Welcome our new feathered friends to the world and to the Farm!
Experience the awe of new life and learn to nurture, care for and cuddle baby chicks. Explore the world inside our gardens and experience daily life on the Farm.
Chef in the Garden June 16-20
Plant the seeds of wonder and learn how to harvest ripe ingredients to cook farm-fresh meals!
Spend a fun filled week digging, planting, and harvesting your way through the garden and discover the many life forces that make our gardens thrive. Plan for favorite meals and then learn to plant and cultivate the ingredients. Explore a deeper understanding rooted in where our food comes from and how each season influences the food that is available to us, while experiencing daily life on the Farm.
Alpaca Adventures June 23-27
Meet Sage and Indigo our resident Alpacas!
Enjoy a unique opportunity to learn all about raising alpacas in a farmyard setting. Nurture and care for these amazing high altitude mammals. Take them for hikes, feed and groom them, and revel in their antics while experiencing daily life on the Farm.
Farmyard Parade June 30-July 4
Celebrate Earth Keeping and share the FarmPark with our community, during the 4th of July parade!
This week encompasses nature connection through hands-on Farm life. Feed the chickens, milk the goats, dig in the gardens, pull weeds, harvest, celebrate and explore the beauty of the natural world that surrounds us. Together we will create crowns and flags to wear during the 4th of July parade, with our week long adventures culminating in participation in Aspen’s 4th of July parade. *Participation on the 4th is optional and we will have a school bus we decorate and ride through the parade, we do drop off and pick up in Aspen.
Lambs & Looms July 7-11
Meet our heard! And learn about raising sheep and producing fiber art, spinning and weaving wool.
Enjoy a unique opportunity to learn all about raising lambs in a farmyard setting. Nurture and care for these amazing animals and discover why people have been raising sheep for their milk and wool for thousands of years.Try a hand at washing, spinning, felting with wool. And weave your fibers into a beautiful keepsake tapestry while experiencing daily life raising Sheep on the Farm.
Wonderful Willows July 14-18
Explore our wild wetlands and work with one of our favorite nature-art materials!
Enjoy a unique opportunity to learn all about the wonderful world of willows, a fun natural resource that abounds in our valley. Build shelters, and playhouses, design dreamcatchers and explore their Brush Creek environment, our local willowy world, while also experiencing daily life on the Farm.
Earth Art July 21-25
Play with the rainbows of nature and rediscover the colorful world all around us!
Learn how to harvest berries, paint with plants and play with all the colors of the rainbow that can be found in nature. Cook and create natural works of art. Tye-dye a t-shirt or flag with the colors harvested around us and discover a rainbow of things we've never noticed before while experiencing daily life on the Farm.
Pollination Exploration July 28-August 1
Discover all of the colorful local pollinators & their very important role on the Farm!
Learn about the beauty of honey bees and their unique world while visiting wildflower fields, and exploring all the wild pollinators who live in our majestic environment. Find out more about the vibrant types of flowers and plants that attract our pollinator friends and help to keep our eco-systems in balance. Taste and compare Honeys from the valley and learn what a healthy sweet treat it is! Find out how many ways Bees Wax is used and where and how we use it, all while experiencing daily life on the Farm.
Goats, Butter, & Cheese August 4-8
It's a Goats Life: Get to know the goats at the Farm Collaborative!
Learn directly from some of our favorite farmyard friends just how to care for them. Spending time getting to know the goats, campers will have the opportunity to walk them on leashes, feed the babies, milk our mama goat, make butter and cheese, and explore all of the small-scale practices of livestock and their daily life on the Farm.
Happy Healthy Harvest-Fest! August 11-15
Join us for a summer-celebration, and enjoy the fruits of a bountiful harvest!
Experience harvesting and celebrate all that nature has to offer, while also learning about daily life on the Farm. Gain appreciation for the intricate systems that allowed our plants to flourish all summer long and celebrate this amazing planet and the steps we shared along the way growing and keeping our gardens and our environment happy and healthy.
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At Earth Keepers “We are growing a better world for our children and better children for our world.” Guided by nature, our 11-weeks of summer camp programs provide children of all ages with hands-on fun at our unique half-acre “FarmPark” of outdoor gardens and greenhouses and the wilderness setting that surrounds.
*Para información en español ver abajo
Scholarships for the 2025 Summer Program are available now, please contact Corina Person Minniti
our Education Director
corina@farmco.org for more information.
Our experienced educators support each child’s innate curiosity about the world around them, guiding their hunger for healthy food and inquisitive desire for knowledge, by teaching them to interact with, and learn from, our outdoors; stewarding a better future. Earth Keepers leave with a desire to eat fresh healthy food that is locally grown within their own community.
Our fun filled programs get children outside, off of their devices, and encourage them to share the joy of exploring nature and the farm in an outdoor classroom. Our summer camps balance the childhood need for wild fun, with a lasting interest in a healthier lifestyle and a healthier planet.
We aspire to inspire an inherent sense of environmental scientific discovery by incorporating real life farming experiences with sustainable agriculture practices, soil sciences, eco-design, land stewardship, renewable technology, and leadership training, compassion for the land and animals, and -oh yes- dirt, as they unearth the thrill of hatching baby chicks, discover the power of the sun, and grow their own food. Earth Keepers become excited about solving environmental challenges, and are given practical tools to do so, all while developing healthier relationships with their food, their friends and their land.
Register for multiple camps and experience how the changing seasons influences our activities and daily life on the farm,
and watch as our gardens grow from seed to plate!
Please contact our Education Director
Corina Person-Minniti with questions.
corina@farmco.org
Farmyard-and-Me
Farmyard-and-Me: Together with your child, experience the awe of cuddling baby chicks, explore, touch and taste the world inside our gardens, learn about farming and help connect your child with the wonders of nature.
Farmyard & Me inspires our youngest community member to care about the planet.
Along with a parent or guardian, small children experience hands-on activities with farmyard animals, gardening, creative art projects, and wilderness exploration. Little ones learn about healthy living and develop compassion for themselves, their families, their communitites, and the world.
*Registration opens January 30, 2025, 5:30 PM MST
Campamento de Verano
Cuidadores de la Tierra
““Estamos cultivando un mejor mundo para nuestr@s hij@s y mejores hij@s para nuestro mundo.”
El Campamento “Cuidadores de la Tierra” *para edades de 5 a 14 años* inspira a las jóvenes a cuidar el planeta. Con actividades a mano con animales de la granja y el huerto, con proyectos creativos y artísticos, y con exploración de la naturaleza, las niñas aprenderán a cómo llevar una vida saludable y crear compasión para sí mismas, sus familias, y el mundo. Nuestros campamentos son 5 días a la semana, de 10am a 3pm, comenzando Junio .
Nuestros profesores con mucha experiencia apoyarán la curiosidad natural que cada niña tiene sobre el mundo que le rodea, guiando su apetito para que opten por comida saludable, y guiando su deseo de conocimiento al enseñarles a cómo interactuar con el medio ambiente. Las Cuidadores de la Tierra saldrán con un deseo de comer comida saludable cultivada localmente en su comunidad.
Con nuestros programas divertidos las niñas tendrán la oportunidad de alejarse de las pantallas de teléfonos y computadoras y compartirán la felicidad de explorar el medio ambiente y la granja en una clase al aire libre. Nuestros campamentos de verano buscan el equilibrio entre la necesidad de un estilo de vida divertido y un planeta más saludable.
Con nuestros programas divertidos las niñas tendrán la oportunidad de alejarse de las pantallas de teléfonos y computadoras y compartirán la felicidad de explorar el medio ambiente y la granja en una clase al aire libre. Nuestros campamentos de verano buscan el equilibrio entre la necesidad de un estilo de vida divertido y un planeta más saludable.
Intentamos inspirar un sentido de descubrimiento científico y ambiental incorporando experiencias reales de la vida de la granja con las prácticas agrícolas sostenibles, la información sobre el suelo, los diseños-ecológicos, cómo cuidar la tierra, la tecnología renovable, el aprendizaje del liderazgo, la compasión por la tierra y los animales y- claro que sí- el suelo. También tendremos la experiencia de empollar pollitos, descubrir el poder del sol, y cultivar verduras. Las Cuidadores de la Tierra se emocionaron al resolver desafíos del medio ambiente, y recibirán herramientas prácticas para hacerlo todo mientras desarrollan una relación más saludable con sus alimentos, sus amigas, y la tierra.
Inscríbanse para varios campamentos y aprendan cómo las estaciones influyen en nuestras actividades y vida diaria de la granja, y déjense asombrar al ver cómo nuestros jardines crecen desde la semilla al plato!
Escríbanos para preguntarnos sobre las becas disponibles para las familias Latinas o las familias que necesiten ayuda monetaria.
