Tamarack Farm Mixed Gender 15-17
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Tamarack Farm Create Community
Hammering sounds fill the hillside as Tamarack Farm teens build a three-sided cabin, milk cows and cook meals. They focus on their community’s needs as they wash organic lettuce, build rabbit hutches or explore a sustainable way of living. At Tamarack Farm, teens find joy in work, learn to live closely with a diverse group of peers and find their own voices.
Tamarack Farm Activities
Dive into creating your summer community. Teens share responsibility, assume leadership roles, and find growth in discomfort as they explore social justice here and elsewhere.
Posts from Tamarack Farm
Bringing Tamarack Farm Home
How can one explain how a community comes together for seven weeks, the highs and lows, the silliest moments and the most beautiful, and what we accomplished? What will campers say when asked what they did this summer? What did they learn about themselves and others? It’s hard to succinctly explain what we do at […]
Stepping Up
Tonight after dinner several TFers stood around the piano and sang at top of their lungs (after a week of some impressive work). It’s only been a little over two weeks and there are many teens who are stepping up in big ways. On Fridays, our teens run the harvest which includes not only harvesting […]
Tamarack Farm 2017 Apprenticeships
This summer all the teens at Tamarack Farm have signed up for an apprenticeship. Each week our staff and teens will build knowledge and experience in the area of their choice. For each of the apprenticeships, we’ve laid out a 6-week arc of learning. Both teens and staff are hyped about the options. The Art […]
