Indian Brook Girls and gender non-binary 9-14
Spirited campers, meaningful actions.
A fierce, fun-loving community
Indian Brook Adventure Beckons
Playfulness is a part of Indian Brook with campers swimming in salad bowls, taking bubble baths in a pickup, and attending a goat wedding. So is the opportunity for campers to learn new skills; playing guitar, backpacking, and performing skits while they gain lasting friendships, self-awareness and resolve.
Indian Brook Dates
| Full Session | June 26-August 11 | |
| July Session | June 26-July 19 | |
| August Session | July 21-August 11 |
Indian Brook Activities
At Indian Brook, campers develop an appreciation of their strength, competence, and creativity. They explore the fullness of their identity, redefine failure, and build on success. They learn new skills; pottery, weaving, and carpentry while they gain lasting friendships, self-awareness and resolve. Indian Brook aims to inspire personal growth in campers while provoking curiosity, fierceness and an action-oriented attitude.
“I like that our daughter was surrounded by strong and confident people and encouraged to source her fire and do bold things and be adventurous."
—Parent
Gender at Farm & Wilderness
Farm & Wilderness strives to empower young people to understand and navigate the social pressures they encounter in their lives, pressures that may be related to their gender identity. At Farm & Wilderness, we offer community members the opportunity to choose a camp environment that best supports their gender identity. To this end, all programs educate about gender during the summer to provide a safe space for campers to share their thoughts on and experiences with gender, and to become familiar with others’ experiences.
Posts from Indian Brook
Interviews with Camp Counselors
Recently, I found a letter that my 10-year-old self wrote to my parents while at summer camp. Besides being homesick, all I could talk about was the counselors – how they provided a space for me to explore the parts of my identity that needed and wanted to be seen, heard, and developed. One of my […]
Finding Aventure
By Elizabeth Morse “The hills in their glorious height, surround us by day and by night. Sing praise to the hills.” The hills surrounding the Woodward Reservoir became my home in the summer of 2006. That was the summer I became a camper at Indian Brook. When I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at […]
Indian Brook 2019 Support Staff
Sensible Mental Health Staff My name is Rosie McInnes (she/her) and I’m so excited to be returning as the Sensible Mental Health Person this summer! I live in Cambridge, MA where I am a theater artist and playwright, an environmental justice organizer, a nanny, a barista and a facilitator and leader of community healing and […]
