Youth and teen
Classes
Spring Homeschool Wednesdays
Dates:
Session 1 - March 4, 11, 18, 25, April 8, 15, 22, 29
Session 2 - May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 10 am - 3 pm
Ages: 10-15
$ 680 / Session
Locations: Campgaw Campground, Harriman State Park and Ramapo Valley Reservation
A new Spring season of outdoor skills and adventures! Join us while we navigate the landscape and learn about Wild spring edibles, animal tracks, fire building, orienteering, knife skills, shelter building, bird language, wildcrafting, archery and all the other seasonal learning opportunities that nature provides (and there's always something). Classes also include art projects, scientific studies, conceptual physics and much more.
Our small groups encourage working in community while also gaining independent skills as well as how to better understand the natural world, themselves and each other. Games, exploring the landscapes and handmade projects are daily activities and lead by advanced level outdoor educators.
Summer camp:
Survival 101
When: Monday, June 29 - Thursday, July 2
10 am - 3:30 pm
Ages: 8+
Cost: $365 / participant
Location: Vulpes Outdoor Classroom, Bloomfield, NJ
4 days to cover the 4 pillars of survival: Shelter, Water, Fire, and Food. We will be covering the basics as well as the nuances of building shelters with no tools, fire from the landscape, finding and purifying water and foraging/cooking some lovely treats!
Our small groups encourage working in community while also gaining independent skills. Our goal is always to help our students better understand the natural world, themselves and each other.
Summer camp:
THE Village
Monday, July 13 - Friday, July 17
10 am - 3:30 pm
Ages 8+
$450/participant
Location: Vulpes Outdoor Classroom, Bloomfield, NJ
Building structures, cooking food and teamwork are what this week is all about. We’ll be living our best camp life with fun team games, building with natural materials, eating campfire cuisine and homemade popsicles. Last year we built a beautiful fire pit as well as tables and benches for feasting on. How will the village grow this year!
Our small group summer camps encourage kids to be aware, to work in a community, and gain independence and confidence through respect for themselves, the natural world and each other. Games, exploring the landscapes, and handmade projects are daily activities and lead by advanced level outdoor educators.
Summer camp :
THe hunter
Monday, July 20 - Friday, July 24
10 am - 3:30 pm
Ages 8+
$450 / participant
Location: Reeve’s Meadow, Harriman State Park, NY
Based on my own experience walking the path of a hunter, this week focuses on the skills needed such as animal tracking, camouflage, stalking and movement, awareness, constructing quicky bows and arrows and much more. Filled with exciting games, challenges and potential challenge of hunting their teacher. Hot days will include dips in the local stream.
Our small group summer camps encourage kids to be aware, to work in a community, and gain independence and confidence through respect for themselves, the natural world and each other. Games, exploring the landscapes, and handmade projects are daily activities and lead by advanced level outdoor educators.
Summer camp:
Art of survival
Monday, August 17th - Friday, August 21st
10 am - 3:30 pm
Ages: 8+
Cost: $450 / participant
Location: Vulpes Outdoor Classroom, Bloomfield, NJ
The relationship between nature and art is a unique and deeply human experience. As an artist and craftsman, I find endless inspiration in nature and in earth skills. This class combines artistry and survival skills in a way that is fun, inspiring and founded in thousands of years development and practice. Students will learn to find materials, use tools, make baskets, make paints and pens, solve challenges, wildcraft medicine and hone survival skills like fire making and carving.
Our small groups encourage working in community while also gaining independent skills. Our goal is always to help our students better understand the natural world, themselves and each other.
Teen Adirondack Adventure
Dates: Tuesday - Saturday, August 25 -29
Overnight Camping
Ages: 13+
Cost: $1500/ participant
Location: Thirteenth Lake, Johnsburg, NY
Our second annual collaborative trip to the Adirondacks with Urban Kid Adventurers to test our skills in the gorgeous Adirondacks State Park. We will be camping along Thirteenth Lake, cooking our food over a fire, fishing, canoeing, hiking, wildcrafting, completing challenges, swimming and experiencing the emotional grounding and clarity of a few days spent immersed in mother nature.
Our small group summer camps encourage kids to be aware, to work in a community, and gain independence and confidence through respect for themselves, the natural world and each other. Games, exploring the landscapes, and handmade projects are daily activities and lead by advanced level outdoor educators.
Food and materials provided from lunch August 25 to lunch August 29.