Little House: Homestead & Ranch Bay Area, CA

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Homesteading for Kids

During this week we explore the world of wild plants and homesteading crafts, as well as meet the animals of local farms and ranches. Under the guidance of our Wilders Guild, campers learn about edible and medicinal plants, engage in hands-on fiber arts projects, and visit local urban farms.

At the end of the week we make our own ice cream and have a down home fiddle party with the Trackers Country Time Jamboree Band and our own root beer wild crafted by the kids themselves.

Wild Plants Safety: Certifcation and Instruction

Trackers Wilders Guild instructors focus on every student developing their Plants Safety Certification for edible and medicinal plant harvest. This thorough curriculum instills a deft respect for the methodology necessary to understand the potency of wild plants and harvest them in a safe and sustainable manner. Campers create medicinal tinctures or other elements of a wild plant apothecary.

The Wilders Garden

The Wilders Guild are caretakers and cultivators. They restore the land and tend to the well-being of the village. Their gardens are vast wild landscapes, reclaimed from domestication, thriving with an abundant and rich harvest.

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Details

7:30am - 8:30am Pre-registered Morning Pre-Camp Get extended camp to 6pm
8:30am - 3:30pm Camp Session
3:30pm - 6:00pm Pre-registered After Camp Get extended camp to 6pm

New Location 3049 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA

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Ages 6 June 24-28, 2013 Tuition $385

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For families who need it, we can offer flexible payment plans. Contact Us to learn more. A non-refundable deposit is always required to reserve your space.

Ages 6 Little House: Homestead & Ranch includes

• mobile camp around local Greenspaces and beyond
• learn about sustainable and urban farming
• visit local farms and ranches
• nature hikes and play
• fiber arts from wool, hides or wild plants
• how to safely light a campfire (with instructors)
• making homemade root beer and ice cream
• how to safely light a campfire (with instructors)
• safe and supervised whittling
• wild edible plants and plant safety
• medicinal tinctures or other elements of a wild plant apothecary
• a fiddle party with the Trackers Country Time Jamboree Band
• reading from Little House books

Ages 7-8 Little House: Homestead & Ranch includes

Ages 9-10 Little House: Homestead & Ranch includes

Our Philosophy for Learning & Living

We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.