Green Adventures Summer Camps

Join us every summer for Green Adventures, our week-long day camp programs for children. Each week campers explore the Garden to learn more about the plant kingdom and their connection to it. Keepsake crafts, field studies, garden games, and botanical snacks are all part of the daily activities.

Advance registration is required. $100 per week member/$120 non-member.

Growing Minds | Pre-school, 4 years of age (must be potty trained)

June 17 - 21,  9am - noon

Storytelling, music and creative play inspire the daily gardening activities, hands-on crafts and botanical snacks that help young minds grow! This camp emphasizes the five senses and helps young children make meaningful connections with nature in the playful setting of the Children's Garden.

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Wow Your Senses! | Rising Kindergarten

June 24 - 28,  9am - noon

In the Children's Garden, come see a rainbow of color, hear seeds rattle, smell sweet fragrances, be a taste-tester, and tickle the roots of young plants! Daily garden exploration, activities and crafts wake up the senses and connect campers to the plant world.

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Fairies in the Forest | Rising 1st grade

July 8 - 12,  9am - noon

Elves and Fairies: come frolic in the garden for an entire enchanted week! Embark on journeys seeking out sparkling creatures, toad stools, fairy umbrellas, and other forest secrets. Grow a crystal garden, forage for edibles, decorate fairy wings, and enjoy imaginative legends and woodland songs.

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Amazing Adaptations | Rising 2nd and 3rd grade

July 15 - 19,  9am - noon

Learn wilderness survival skills from the experts: wildlife! Find out how water scorpions breathe ‘backwards’ underwater, watch seeminly harmless plants trap live animals, and listen to secretive Bess Bug whispers! Seek answers to nature's mysteries through engaging investigations, plant-inspired crafts, and animal tales from around the world.

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Herbology 101 | Rising 4th and 5th grade

July 22 - 26,  9am - noon

Explore meadows, forests and gardens seeking out the wild plants that inspired gillyweed, mimbulus, and bobotubers. Discover the magical yet real properties of flowers, roots, leaves and seeds that are used for flavoring, healing and art. We'll even use plants to play a game of botanical quidditch!

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Adventures in Science | Rising 6th and 7th grade

July 29 - August 2,  9am - noon

Here's a recipe for summer fun: combine chemistry, cuisine, ecology and adventure in equal parts; then enjoy! We will make a solar oven and prepare snacks from foods we harvest from the Farm Garden. Learn to use a GPS, hydrophone & microscope to monitor wildlife, conduct experiments and go on a geocaching adventure.

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Spring Break Garden Adventures

Join us each year for natural fun at the Garden during Spring Break. Campers explore the Garden to learn more about the plant kingdom and their connection to it. Keepsake crafts, field studies, garden games, and botanical snacks are all part of the day's activities.

Information about next year's Spring Break Camps will be available soon.

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