Folkcraft Summer STEM Program
June 9-13 2025 9 am- 2 pm
Ages 7-12
Cost: $285
During this week in the Woods, students will explore old and new techniques to create fun and useful creations from materials found in the forest. Children will develop upon their creative minds and inner engineers. They will be guided in primitive folkcraft working with natural plant dyes, fibers, and wood. As part of this process participants will go on frequent guided excursions, learning to recognize the unique characteristics of forest types, flora and fauna of the landscape, tend to the organic garden, and learn about the influences of living off-grid on forest dynamics by creating STEM enriched projects within a forest landscape such as solar cook oven and waterwheel.
Leave the hectic, media driven, everyday world behind and step into a quieter existence for a short week – experiencing the connection between natural history and the creative process. As a group we will work toward building an intimate relationship with the environment around us through exploration, experimentation, craft, and play – thereby becoming better stewards of the land that supports us.
Path Finders Summer Solstice Program
*FULL*
June 23-27 2025 9am- 2 pm
Ages 5-9
Cost: $285
During our “Path Finders” Summer Solstice Program, children will explore our off-grid forest school, celebrate the summer solstice with candle-making and handwork with natural fibers. We will take hikes throughout the forests and splash around in our creeks and discover local native plants and macro-invertebrates, cook over the fire, and connect to the forest through imaginative wonder and play.
*Mindfulness exercises - hiking, storytelling, song
*Practice hand skills to support empowerment and a deepened relationship and respect for the natural world:
Pulleys and Levers
Fire tending foundations & safety skills
Woodworking and whittling
*Observe and draw ecological connections across the landscape and explore connections to the land
Tend to garden by planting and harvesting plants and vegetables
*Explore plant identification and characteristics beneficial to humans by guided plant identification walks and tastings
*Be guided on creek walks and discover water ecology
*Share nature-connection songs and stories
*Be guided in self-expression through nature-based arts & handwork
*Physics experiments with water using ramps and constructed waterways
Farm To Table Summer Program
July 14-18 2025 9 am- 2 pm
Ages: 6-12
Cost: $285
During this week children will use outdoor primitive cooking skills in our grant funded outdoor kitchen to craft delicious meals that include organically garden grown and foraged plants. Children will create their lunch each day, learn about the plants nutrition, and their life cycle:
Children will observe and participate in seed germination, plant transplanting, and harvesting of mature plants.. understanding the full process of plant growth in our programs organic garden.
There will be a beautiful balance throughout the day to cool off in the creek, discover native salamanders and crawdads, discover in the forest, create garden inspired art, and create a community within.
Wood Sprites Summer Program
*FULL *
July 7-11 2025 9 am- 12pm
Ages 3-4
Cost: $200
Our littlest forest folk will make new friends while exploring the natural world around them. The children will look for and identify insects, pretend to be the wild animals they see, caretake the organic garden, build fairy houses and bug hotels, discover in the creeks, create with natural objects and discover their love for the forest.
*All children must be toilet trained.*
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REGISTRATION DETAILS:
Enrollment form and payment are required to reserve a summer program spot.
There are limited spaces, once the summer program is full we will list it as so on this webpage, if you are interested in being added to the waiting list for the summer program please email us at seedkeepersforestschool@gmail.com.
If you wish to cancel, you must notify us by April 15th 2025 for a partial 50% refund.
If you notify us after April 15th 2025, your payment is nonrefundable.
*Please note you are only confirmed when both application and payment are received. You will be sent a confirmation email upon receiving.