Seed Song Summer Camp 2024
NEW! Middle School Camp at the farm! Click Here for details, dates, & themes
- June - September
- 10 week program
- Monday to Friday 9 AM- 3 PM
- Ages 4 and up*
- Before and After Care available
- Counselor In Training Application
*All campers must be potty trained and self-sufficient
FOR INFORMATION REGARDING CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS/FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE email us by clicking below:
Week 1: Tuesday June 25 - Friday June 28
THEME: Young Seed Song Farmers Week
Note: This is a 4 day camp week, there is NO CAMP MONDAY JUNE 24th
A whole week of plants, pollinating insects, preparing farm snacks, and exploring the work and play of a Seed Song Sustainable Farmer. Learn agroecological techniques, help staff a farmstand, sing songs of food and farming, play in the dirt, and participate in all aspects of bringing food from seed and soil to table and market.
Week 2: Monday July 1 - Friday July 5
THEME: FIRE wind water WORKS
Note: There will be camp on July 4th
Explore each of the four elements – earth, fire, wind, and water – and their special powers. Build a model boat, make a windmill, cook and dry with the sun, build an earth stove. Taste vegetables grown with earth, water and sun, feed your body and imagination with their powers. End the week with a "Make your own wood fired pizza" party in our brick oven.
Week 3: Monday July 8 - Friday July 12
THEME: L is for Locavore
Celebrate locally grown food by exploring small-scale, sustainable agriculture and the CSA model. Experience the joy of growing food from farm field to plate. Harvest and prepare fresh snacks. Learn the farmers favorite go-to recipes. Work with a local chef inspired by farm fresh ingredients. End the week with a camper-directed “Pop Up Restaurant” on the farm.
Week 4: Monday July 15 - Friday July 19
THEME: Bird is the Word!
Learn about the wild birds who call the farm home including kestrels, great blue herons and bald eagles. Explore our unique relationship with chickens, the world's most common bird. Practice bird calls, build bird boxes and create a natural artwork celebrating our feathered friends.
Week 5: Monday July 22 - Friday July 26
THEME: The Land Grows Music
Make home-grown music, songs, and musical instruments. Sing the song of the seed! Culminate the week with a “Pop Up Music Festival” created by the campers
Week 6: Monday July 29 -Friday August 2
THEME: Power to the Pollinators
Explore insects and other pollinators, and their special relationship with the flowers and other farm plants, both wild and cultivated. Experience edible and medicinal flowers, pick and decorate with the flowers in our fields! We will become invasive vs non invasive animals detectives, and learn about each of their roles on our farm and wetland. We will sprout wings to pollinate and march in a pollinator parade.
Week 7: Monday August 5 - Friday August 9
THEME: All things Animalia
Learn about and care for the animals of the farm and forest. Choose a mammal, reptile, amphibian, insect, bird, fish, or microorganism animal spirit guide, and explore how its gifts may change you. Make an animal mask, listen to animal stories from the many past and present cultural traditions of Kingston. Create a song, dance, costume, or sculpture. At Friday's Council of All Beings, share with the group your animal spirit and the work that it inspired.
Week 8: Tuesday August 13 - *Saturday August 17
THEME: Earth Heroes!
*Note: NO CAMP MONDAY AUGUST 12
What makes a hero? How can we act as heroes for the earth embracing our own unique superpowers? Actively engage in environmental stewardship through exploring and tending the land. Learn directly from our elders, local activists and community groups who act heroically each day. Culminate the week by creating a themed Earth Heroes collective art piece. Work towards an environmentally themed performance to take place on the farm *Saturday, August 17th (performance date subject to change).
Week 9: Monday August 19 -Friday August 23
THEME: SuperPlants
Learn about and taste how the wild and cultivated plants at Seed Song Farm can give you super powers including strong muscles, day and night vision, and fast healing. Walk in the woods to find secret wild plants. Use seeds, leaves, and petals to create works of art. Seed, plant, care for, harvest, and eat the vegetables, herbs, flowers, and berries that give us special powers.
Week 10: Monday, August 26 - Friday, August 30
THEME: Esopus Village Back in Time
Travel back in time and explore the lifeways and wisdom of the Lenape people of the 1500's that lived on and farmed this land along Esopus Creek. Work in the wicwam, play traditional games, meet around the fire pit, and cultivate the field of corn, beans, squash, and other heritage crops with members of Neetopk Keetopk (educational Native American and allies group). Explore the woods and creek, find signs of wildlife. Make tools and art from natural materials, sing songs, and tell stories. Culminate the week with a “Feast by Fire”.
THEME: Young Seed Song Farmers Week
Note: This is a 4 day camp week, there is NO CAMP MONDAY JUNE 24th
A whole week of plants, pollinating insects, preparing farm snacks, and exploring the work and play of a Seed Song Sustainable Farmer. Learn agroecological techniques, help staff a farmstand, sing songs of food and farming, play in the dirt, and participate in all aspects of bringing food from seed and soil to table and market.
Week 2: Monday July 1 - Friday July 5
THEME: FIRE wind water WORKS
Note: There will be camp on July 4th
Explore each of the four elements – earth, fire, wind, and water – and their special powers. Build a model boat, make a windmill, cook and dry with the sun, build an earth stove. Taste vegetables grown with earth, water and sun, feed your body and imagination with their powers. End the week with a "Make your own wood fired pizza" party in our brick oven.
Week 3: Monday July 8 - Friday July 12
THEME: L is for Locavore
Celebrate locally grown food by exploring small-scale, sustainable agriculture and the CSA model. Experience the joy of growing food from farm field to plate. Harvest and prepare fresh snacks. Learn the farmers favorite go-to recipes. Work with a local chef inspired by farm fresh ingredients. End the week with a camper-directed “Pop Up Restaurant” on the farm.
Week 4: Monday July 15 - Friday July 19
THEME: Bird is the Word!
Learn about the wild birds who call the farm home including kestrels, great blue herons and bald eagles. Explore our unique relationship with chickens, the world's most common bird. Practice bird calls, build bird boxes and create a natural artwork celebrating our feathered friends.
Week 5: Monday July 22 - Friday July 26
THEME: The Land Grows Music
Make home-grown music, songs, and musical instruments. Sing the song of the seed! Culminate the week with a “Pop Up Music Festival” created by the campers
Week 6: Monday July 29 -Friday August 2
THEME: Power to the Pollinators
Explore insects and other pollinators, and their special relationship with the flowers and other farm plants, both wild and cultivated. Experience edible and medicinal flowers, pick and decorate with the flowers in our fields! We will become invasive vs non invasive animals detectives, and learn about each of their roles on our farm and wetland. We will sprout wings to pollinate and march in a pollinator parade.
Week 7: Monday August 5 - Friday August 9
THEME: All things Animalia
Learn about and care for the animals of the farm and forest. Choose a mammal, reptile, amphibian, insect, bird, fish, or microorganism animal spirit guide, and explore how its gifts may change you. Make an animal mask, listen to animal stories from the many past and present cultural traditions of Kingston. Create a song, dance, costume, or sculpture. At Friday's Council of All Beings, share with the group your animal spirit and the work that it inspired.
Week 8: Tuesday August 13 - *Saturday August 17
THEME: Earth Heroes!
*Note: NO CAMP MONDAY AUGUST 12
What makes a hero? How can we act as heroes for the earth embracing our own unique superpowers? Actively engage in environmental stewardship through exploring and tending the land. Learn directly from our elders, local activists and community groups who act heroically each day. Culminate the week by creating a themed Earth Heroes collective art piece. Work towards an environmentally themed performance to take place on the farm *Saturday, August 17th (performance date subject to change).
Week 9: Monday August 19 -Friday August 23
THEME: SuperPlants
Learn about and taste how the wild and cultivated plants at Seed Song Farm can give you super powers including strong muscles, day and night vision, and fast healing. Walk in the woods to find secret wild plants. Use seeds, leaves, and petals to create works of art. Seed, plant, care for, harvest, and eat the vegetables, herbs, flowers, and berries that give us special powers.
Week 10: Monday, August 26 - Friday, August 30
THEME: Esopus Village Back in Time
Travel back in time and explore the lifeways and wisdom of the Lenape people of the 1500's that lived on and farmed this land along Esopus Creek. Work in the wicwam, play traditional games, meet around the fire pit, and cultivate the field of corn, beans, squash, and other heritage crops with members of Neetopk Keetopk (educational Native American and allies group). Explore the woods and creek, find signs of wildlife. Make tools and art from natural materials, sing songs, and tell stories. Culminate the week with a “Feast by Fire”.
Additional Program Details
Ages 4-12: younger children must be potty-trained and able to communicate with staff regarding their needs.
Times: 9 am Drop off - 3 pm Pick up
After / Before Care: Available from 8:30 am or as late as 4:00 pm - $20 / hour. For before care, let counselors know the day before at pick up. For after care, Let counselors know in the morning drop off.
What to Bring: Brown bag lunch and two snacks, a hat with a brim, wear shoes and clothes that can get wet or dirty and keep an extra set of clothes at camp, bathing suit, towel, and a reusable water bottle. We have sunscreen and bug repellent on site but if you have a preferred brand please bring it.
After drop-off on the first day, Parents and guardians are welcome to stay at camp for the first hour until child feels secure. Parents are welcome to pickup their child(ren) at lunchtime on the first day of camp, and are required to pickup any time that becomes needed.
Ages 12 & up: We anticipate offering a middle school track of camp this season. Also inquire by emailing [email protected] about special helper / Counselor-in-Training roles for teens.
Ages 4-12: younger children must be potty-trained and able to communicate with staff regarding their needs.
Times: 9 am Drop off - 3 pm Pick up
After / Before Care: Available from 8:30 am or as late as 4:00 pm - $20 / hour. For before care, let counselors know the day before at pick up. For after care, Let counselors know in the morning drop off.
What to Bring: Brown bag lunch and two snacks, a hat with a brim, wear shoes and clothes that can get wet or dirty and keep an extra set of clothes at camp, bathing suit, towel, and a reusable water bottle. We have sunscreen and bug repellent on site but if you have a preferred brand please bring it.
After drop-off on the first day, Parents and guardians are welcome to stay at camp for the first hour until child feels secure. Parents are welcome to pickup their child(ren) at lunchtime on the first day of camp, and are required to pickup any time that becomes needed.
Ages 12 & up: We anticipate offering a middle school track of camp this season. Also inquire by emailing [email protected] about special helper / Counselor-in-Training roles for teens.
Cancellation Policy
As of August 17th, 2023 we have reached a point in the camp season where we are no longer able to give refunds for the remainder of the season.
As of August 17th, 2023 we have reached a point in the camp season where we are no longer able to give refunds for the remainder of the season.