This lovely swallowtail kept me company while planting a bed of cabbage and dill in the Art-Farm teaching garden….
Little Artshram’s Fourth Annual
Summer Art-Farm Beehive Camp
at the Community Gardens in Traverse City!
THANKS TO the ART-OFF event, hosted at Right Brain Brewery,
and sponsored by many, on June 14th
we are able to reduce our camp fees to $99.00 and offer scholarships to kids in need!
Please note also, that registration is now open for the following weeks:
July 21-25
August 4-8
August 11-15
Girls OUTLOUD! Art-Farm Camp
August 18-22
(Download the registration form here–2 pages):
summer-art-farm-beehive-page-1.pdf
Children and youth, ages 6 and older have the opportunity to experience the magical blend of gardening, art, music and learning a deeper appreciation for the natural world. The Art-Farm Camps take place at the Community Gardens near the historic barns. This year we are partnering with the Michigan Land Use Institute (MLUI) to begin developing an Art-Farm Youth Entrepreneurial Market Garden, and also, with the TC Primitive Skills Core Group to expand our Wandering in the Woods Nature Awareness program. It’s going to be a great summer!
The Art-Farm programs follow the Permaculture practice of carefully studying natural patterns, cycles and diversities. The focus areas are: food, water, shelter and community. The curriculum is a blend of art and music-making, organic gardening, natural building projects, nature awareness and primitive skills.
At the Community Gardens, Art-Farm Campers will tend and help grow a variety of vegetables, flowers and herbs in a teaching garden plot and assist the interns and mentor in the Youth Entrepreneurial Market Gardens as they work towards growing food to take to various markets. Each week we will create puppets or masks, story-tell, sing and perform a puppet teach-in at a special family-picnic at the Community Gardens. We will learn about “forest gardening”, play wilderness awareness games, learn about trees and wild plants that grow in the Munson Woods, and practice primitive skills like fox-walking and learning bird language. Other projects include, painting, cartooning and nature sketching, and garbage art and natural-found instrument making.
Each weekly camp accommodates 25 children/youth, ages 6 and older with a staff of two-three adult leaders and two Art-Farm Apprentices.
The Art-Farm Day Camps are offered, Monday through Friday, 10-3 PM
Beehive Camps (1st-6th grade, 6 years and older)
July 21-25
August 4-8
August 11-15
Girls OUTLOUD! Art-Farm Camp
August 18-22
Art-Farm Apprentice(13 years and older) and Teacher Training:
This week! June 16-20th, 2008 (M-F 10-3PM)
Mark your calendars for our end of summer and second annual
Art-Farm and Traverse City Harvest Festival, Saturday, Sept. 20th!
For more information about the Beehive Camp, Art-Farm Apprentice or Art-Farm Intern Program contact: 231-510-3491 or penny@littleartshram.org
visit us at: www.littleartshram.org
We are a registered 501.c3 organization, and you are invited to “sponsor” a camper!
