COMMON GROUND FARM CAMP
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.
Common Ground Farm Camp runs from 9am to 3pm Monday through Friday, July 1-August 23 (No Camp July 4) at Stony Kill Farm, 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls, NY. Before and After Care options are available starting at 8am and ending at 5:30pm.
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 less structured time to play games, craft their own creations, and explore the natural world. Campers will be given the choice to move between different activities offered by the instructors and counselors. The activities available will have new choices every day!
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 Renae Essinger, Education Manager at education@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.