If your teen or preteen loves gardening and working with younger children, this camp is for them! Junior Counselors will grow their skill as young leaders throughout the week in mentorship with camp staff, facilitating small group activities, and learning what it’s like to teach outdoors, all the while learning about organic gardening and farming. Junior Counselors will earn a Certificate of Leadership upon completion of the camp.
This week’s camp description:
Experience the joy of harvesting, cooking, and tasting in the garden! Let’s discover where our food comes from while creating simple, tasty snacks for all to enjoy! We will explore flavors and create recipes to culminate in a camper created cookbook.
Together, we will:
- Harvest fruits and veggies from the garden to prepare fresh and nutritious snacks
- Learn about our food’s journey from soil to snack, exploring the seasonal availability of the growing produce in the garden
- Use age-appropriate food preparation techniques. We’ll practice chopping, slicing, grating, measuring and mixing
- Practice following recipes and create our own recipes
- Explore soil, compost, and worms and understand their connection to healthy soil and growing food
- Get creative! Compose and design a Soil to Snack Cookbook to take home
- Make new friends while caring for the garden, expanding our palates, and practicing our cooking skills!
Cooking camps are a smaller group size and have an additional cost for supplies. Dietary considerations and food allergies must be communicated in advance. Please be aware that our kitchen is a shared facility that uses nuts and other allergens.
Junior Counselors will arrive 30 minutes before campers arrive and stay up to 30 minutes after campers depart. This allows time to prepare and set up for the events of the day and to wrap up and reflect on the day with the summer camp staff (built into the times listed).
An orientation will take place before summer camps, consisting of a tour of the farm/garden, a general overview of the Junior Counselor role, leadership training, and some team building activities as we go through a typical camp day! This will give youth an opportunity to get acquainted with each other, the space, and Tilth Alliance staff. Attendance at this orientation is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Orientation will take place at the site where the Junior Counselor will attend camp: The Good Shepherd Center, on Wednesday, June 10, 6:00-7:00pm. Light snacks will be provided.
Junior Counselors receive $5 off summer camp T shirts. To redeem, use code JUNIOR5 at checkout.
