check back soon for details about summer camp 2023!
2022
10 WEEKS FROM JUNE 27 TO September 2
Monday to Friday 9 am to 3 pm
(before and after care available)
Ages 4 & up
AS of February 16th: All Camps are $370 per week regardless of payment method (scroll down for details)
For information regarding camp Scholarships/Financial Assistance
email: info@seedsongfarm.org with "Camp Scholarship" in Subject Line
NEW! Exciting Camp Program for 13-15 year olds
Project-Based Learning - Email: jasmine@seedsongfarm.org for more information
Topics to explore include:
Sustainable building, animal husbandry, fiber arts and farm chic fashion
Project-Based Learning - Email: jasmine@seedsongfarm.org for more information
Topics to explore include:
Sustainable building, animal husbandry, fiber arts and farm chic fashion
2022 Dates & Weekly Themes
Week 1: June 27 - July 1
Young Seed Song Farmers Week
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 and prepare for CSA distribution, sing songs of food and farming, play in the dirt, and participate in the all aspects of bringing food from seed and soil to table and market.
Week 2: July 4 - 8
FIRE wind water WORKS
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. Build a fire in our brick oven to make your own farm pizza on the last day of the week.
Week 3: July 11 - 15
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 4: July 18 - 22
Now Accepting Waitlist Only Registrations
The Land Grows Music
Make home-grown music, songs, and musical instruments. Sing the song of the seed! Engage with the musicians of the 2022 Brass Festival. Culminates with a performance of song/dance/music and rhythm on our large spacious lawn special for the camper families. Optional: Join us Saturday, July 23rd for the annual Brass Festival at Seed Song Farm, celebrate brass music with live performances and food and craft vendors, fun for the whole family!
Week 5: July 25 - 29
SuperPlants of the Farm & Forest
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 6: August 1 - 5
Sheep, Chickens & Wild Animals
Care for the animals of the farm and forest and learn about them. 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 7: August 8 - 12
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.
FULL Week 8: August 15 - 19
Now Accepting Waitlist Only Registrations
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 9: *Tuesday, August 23 - *Saturday August 27
*Note: This camp runs Tuesday through Saturday, NO MONDAY CAMP
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 with Arm of the Sea Theatre on a environmentally themed performance titled DIRT: The Life of Soil to take place on the farm on *Saturday, August 27th at 1:30 PM!
Our Special Instructor for this week is Henry Gage, Jr. - Founder of Build Green Now & Dir of Certifications, US Hemp Building Association. He is a Senior Project Manager and builder for Hemp House #1 - Kingston NY. Click here to view his work: http://www.buildgreennow.net/training.html
FULL Week 10: August 29 - September 2
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
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEEN COUNSELORS IN TRAINING (CIT PROGRAM)
Week 1: June 27 - July 1
Young Seed Song Farmers Week
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 and prepare for CSA distribution, sing songs of food and farming, play in the dirt, and participate in the all aspects of bringing food from seed and soil to table and market.
Week 2: July 4 - 8
FIRE wind water WORKS
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. Build a fire in our brick oven to make your own farm pizza on the last day of the week.
Week 3: July 11 - 15
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 4: July 18 - 22
Now Accepting Waitlist Only Registrations
The Land Grows Music
Make home-grown music, songs, and musical instruments. Sing the song of the seed! Engage with the musicians of the 2022 Brass Festival. Culminates with a performance of song/dance/music and rhythm on our large spacious lawn special for the camper families. Optional: Join us Saturday, July 23rd for the annual Brass Festival at Seed Song Farm, celebrate brass music with live performances and food and craft vendors, fun for the whole family!
Week 5: July 25 - 29
SuperPlants of the Farm & Forest
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 6: August 1 - 5
Sheep, Chickens & Wild Animals
Care for the animals of the farm and forest and learn about them. 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 7: August 8 - 12
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.
FULL Week 8: August 15 - 19
Now Accepting Waitlist Only Registrations
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 9: *Tuesday, August 23 - *Saturday August 27
*Note: This camp runs Tuesday through Saturday, NO MONDAY CAMP
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 with Arm of the Sea Theatre on a environmentally themed performance titled DIRT: The Life of Soil to take place on the farm on *Saturday, August 27th at 1:30 PM!
Our Special Instructor for this week is Henry Gage, Jr. - Founder of Build Green Now & Dir of Certifications, US Hemp Building Association. He is a Senior Project Manager and builder for Hemp House #1 - Kingston NY. Click here to view his work: http://www.buildgreennow.net/training.html
FULL Week 10: August 29 - September 2
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
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEEN COUNSELORS IN TRAINING (CIT PROGRAM)
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 4:30 pm - $15 / hour. Schedule as soon as you are aware of your need, with at least 24 hour advance notice-- Email jasmine@seedsongfarm.org with dates and times.
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 jasmine@seedsongfarm.org about special helper / Counselor-in-Training roles for teens.
Updated Registration Note: The $370 per week fee is effective February 16, 2022 and for the duration of 2022. The minor increase simplifies and standardizes our payment processing fees across all payment methods (cash, check, credit card, paypal, and Venmo), and incorporates that fee within the standard camp fee— there will no longer be a need to add a processing fee to the base camp fee for any payment methods. Those who registered and paid on or before February 16 will not have to adjust their previous payment. We appreciate your understanding as we continue to grow and require higher-level organizational tools.
Cancellation Policy
For camp enrollments cancelled up to 30 days prior to camp start date a full refund minus the non-refundable 3% Paypal or Venmo processing fee and a 10% Administrative Processing Fee will be issued.
For camp enrollments cancelled up to 15 days prior to camp start date a full refund minus the non-refundable 3% Paypal or Venmo processing fee and a 20% Administrative Processing Fee will be issued.
For cancellations occurring less than 15 days prior to camp start date a refund will ONLY be issued if the camp is able to fill your child's space. The refund issued will be minus the non-refundable 3% Paypal or Venmo processing fee and a 30% Administrative Processing Fee.
COVID Related Cancellations or Closures: In the event that your child cannot attend camp due to a Positive test result or a quarantine due to exposure a refund will only be issued if we are able to fill your child's space at camp. In the event of a CAMP CLOSURE due to COVID outbreak or lack of adequate staffing NO REFUNDS will be issued.
For camp enrollments cancelled up to 30 days prior to camp start date a full refund minus the non-refundable 3% Paypal or Venmo processing fee and a 10% Administrative Processing Fee will be issued.
For camp enrollments cancelled up to 15 days prior to camp start date a full refund minus the non-refundable 3% Paypal or Venmo processing fee and a 20% Administrative Processing Fee will be issued.
For cancellations occurring less than 15 days prior to camp start date a refund will ONLY be issued if the camp is able to fill your child's space. The refund issued will be minus the non-refundable 3% Paypal or Venmo processing fee and a 30% Administrative Processing Fee.
COVID Related Cancellations or Closures: In the event that your child cannot attend camp due to a Positive test result or a quarantine due to exposure a refund will only be issued if we are able to fill your child's space at camp. In the event of a CAMP CLOSURE due to COVID outbreak or lack of adequate staffing NO REFUNDS will be issued.