COMMON GROUND FARM CAMP
Registration for Farm Camp 2025 will open in March. For the most up to date information, please subscribe to our newsletter below.
At Farm Camp, kids learn through collaboration, exploration, imagination, and discovery. Children engage directly with farmland and the natural world and make their own culinary, scientific, and artistic creations with their own hands. Campers spend time in the garden, at the pond, in the field, in the barn, and along our nature trails. Kids develop new skills, make new friends, and grow an appreciation for the beauty and complexity of the natural environment within which we live.
Our camp instructors develop plans for the morning sessions based on the weekly themes, using a variety of methods for exploration. Our campers dig into each week’s program through direct engagement, scaffolded to their age level. We harvest, we explore, we make art, we experiment, we move our bodies, we play games, and we get really dirty!
In the afternoons we offer Campers’ Choice, where children will have the opportunity to choose their activity and interact with different age groups. Each day we will offer a variety of options that allow kids to create, move their bodies, and explore in different ways to suit their different needs.
This year, Farm Camp is open to children ages 4 to 9 in July, and 4 to 12 in August. Children will be grouped according to age.
Questions? Contact Sember Weinman, Executive Director at sember@commongroundfarm.org. Common Ground Farm’s day camp is located at the Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center in Wappingers Falls, NY and is a local and affordable summer camp option for families who live in and around the communities of Beacon, Newburgh, Wappingers Falls, Fishkill, and Cold Spring.