General Information
- June 30th-August 29th 2025
- 9 week program, weekly registration
- Monday to Friday 9 AM- 3 PM
- Ages 4 and up*
- Before and After Care available
- Counselor In Training Application
Weekly Themes
Week 1: Monday, June 30 - Friday, July 4: Fire wind water WORKS
*Note: There will be camp on Friday, 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.
Week 2: Monday, July 7 - Friday, July 11: Young Seed Song Farmers
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 3: Monday, July 14 - Friday, July 18: 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. Each day we will spend time with the farm flock. Practice bird calls, build bird boxes and create a natural artwork celebrating our feathered friends.
Week 4: Monday, July 21 - Friday, July 25: 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 5: Monday, July 28 - Friday, August 1: 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 6: Monday, August 4 - Friday, August 8: 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 11 - Friday, August 15: 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: Monday, August 18 - Friday, August 22: Earth Heroes!
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
Week 9: Monday, August 25 - Friday, August 29: 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”.
*Note: There will be camp on Friday, 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.
Week 2: Monday, July 7 - Friday, July 11: Young Seed Song Farmers
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 3: Monday, July 14 - Friday, July 18: 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. Each day we will spend time with the farm flock. Practice bird calls, build bird boxes and create a natural artwork celebrating our feathered friends.
Week 4: Monday, July 21 - Friday, July 25: 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 5: Monday, July 28 - Friday, August 1: 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 6: Monday, August 4 - Friday, August 8: 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 11 - Friday, August 15: 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: Monday, August 18 - Friday, August 22: Earth Heroes!
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
Week 9: Monday, August 25 - Friday, August 29: 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. Counselor-in-Training roles for available for teens (application at the top of this page).
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. Counselor-in-Training roles for available for teens (application at the top of this page).
Cancellation Policy
All Registrations Are Final. Once your registration is submitted, it is considered final. No refunds, cancellations, or transfers will be granted unless discussed with the director.