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 […]
Building Community by Dancing, Working, and Having Fun Together.
What do the Zodiac, a bonfire, and 50’s diner have in common? Over the last two weeks, Barn Day Campers danced to the Zodiac in wacky attire (Topsy Turvy Tuesday for BDC insiders); Flying Cloud campers toted bundles of wood in their arms, and teamed up for heavier logs for the bonfire at their first […]
Banquets, A Birth, And More Good News
Yesterday we saw slow-roasted goats at Flying Cloud; summer transformed into a winter landscape at Timberlake; and tables turned into birds nests at Indian Brook. Young children enjoyed a dinner cooked over an open fire during their overnight trip at the Barn Day Camp. The sun shines today on Pickup Day for our overnight camps’ […]
