Farm & Nature Kids’ Camp: Dreaming with the Land
Monday- Friday, 7/27-7/31, 9am-3pm
This summer, join us as we explore and celebrate the woods, fields, and waters of Golden Well Sanctuary. Nature becomes our classroom, living room, and playspace as we build strong connections to the land and to each other. We’ll sing songs, give thanks, tell stories, make art, harvest flowers, herbs and veggies, dance, play games, build forts, and go on adventures with curiosity as our guide. We’ll also get to practice wilderness skills like plant identification and communal fire-making. Interweaving hands-on experiences with the world of imagination through story, we will nurture the land and our own hearts.
This year’s camp theme is “Dreaming with the Land.” A summer to dream together, we will track the forested trails of our imagination and bring back seeds and stories to share. Through creative play, story time, dance and theater we’ll let these stories speak to us, bringing us into evermore grounded relationship with the animate and evolving landscape we are a part of. Together, we will steep in the nourishment, connection, and delightful magic that lives all around us.
Camp is for 6-9 year olds.
Use discount code MULTIKID at check out for 20% off the price of more than one child in the same family’s attendance.
(Partial financial need based scholarships and payment plans available, please inquire.)
Price $333 per child
Daily Schedule:
9am: Drop off
9:30am: Check in, Movement Circle, Dream Share, Sing into the day
10am: Learning from the plants that nourish us (garden & wildcraft time)
10:30am: Snack & wildcraft tea time
10:45am: Exploration/Adventure of the day
12:30pm: Lunch time
1pm: Afternoon game
1:15pm: Sit Spot (listening to Nature)
1:30pm: Imagination, creativity & expression through arts, dance, theater
2:30pm: Storytelling
Camp Facilitators:
Hannah Cecilia Forest Night Laga Abram
Hannah Cecilia Forest Night Laga Abram is an experienced wilderness camp leader. A rising sophomore at Middlebury College, Hannah hails from the high mountain desert of Northern New Mexico and is a student of soil, wind, and ponderosa pines. She is a poet, dancer, and seeker of dreams who trusts deeply in the wisdom and delight of play and spontaneous interrelation with beings human and more-than-human. A climate justice activist and community organizer, she believes that stories are magic.
Hannah Ennis
Hannah was born in central Massachusetts and grew up exploring and learning from the woods and waters of New England. She finds joy and wonder in the expansive interconnectedness of our world. Hannah is a sophomore at Middlebury College, and concentrates in Environmental Justice and Dance. This past fall, she was awarded a three-year Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship to continue her research of movement as a form of healing and resistance in the borderlands/en la frontera. She is fascinated with the ways we find togetherness and are (dis)placed in community, and how our bodies express and tell stories. She brings experience of art and movement as a way to deepen connection with our selves and with each other.
Hannah has spent many summers leading wilderness expeditions as well as theater and arts camps, and is excited to be living at Golden Well this summer, listening closely to the land, and dreaming aloud with kids.
Both Hannah and Hannah are CPR and Wilderness First Aid certified.
Please note that we will be taking precautions to keep camp COVID-safe. We will send home guidelines and questionnaires for each camper as based on physicians’ recommendations and state guidelines.