Rolling View Farm Camp
We are so excited to introduce Rolling View Farm Camp: an exciting day camp designed for kids to build skills and learn about our Northern Michigan flora and fauna.
Some more about camp!
At Rolling View Farm Camp, kids will have the chance to learn skills such as gardening and foraging, learn the names, identification, and stories of Northern Michigan plants, observe Northern Michigan wildlife frequently seen on the farm, and much more! Our hope is that after attending camp, kids will be more familiar with the ecosystems, plants, and animals that surround them here in Northern Michigan and feel the connection we all have to nature.
Through activities such as cultivating in a garden specifically designed and built for camp, exploring and documenting the native ecosystems on the farm, making observations into artwork, and listening to indigenous stories and teachings about native plants and animals, attendees will develop many skills such as plant identification, cultivation, and observation , as well as exercise their creativity, and ability to make connections between, art, culture, and the natural world.
Teach the children, We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them the daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones—inkberry, lambs-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones—rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the field and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and its leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
-Mary Oliver, from “Upstream - Selected Essays”