A day camp opportunity for kids to have fun connecting with the Earth and food in healthy ways.
Kids (6 – 9 yrs. old) join us for 5 days of fun exploring, foraging, harvesting, propagating, planting, observing (bees, birds, & more), and helping to care for Beacon Food Forest!
Lead Instructor: Kimberly Leeper, a Seattleite since 1995, is a garden educator, regenerative landscape designer, plant and wildlife enthusiast who specializes in Pacific NW native plants, beneficial wildlife habitat, and food forests. Kimberly loves inspiring people to think more holistically about their landscapes and the planet, and creating sanctuary with foraging opportunities close to home! She has a background in school psychology and 15+ years of experience teaching and learning with children and adults in schools and the woods. Kimberly has been involved planting and education efforts with Beacon Food Forest since it was first planted in Sept. 2012.
Tanja is native to the NW and has spent the last 7 years with the US Forest Service doing native plant propagation, restoration, and research. The Beacon Food Forest project has become a very big passion of hers, claiming that it has inspired her to completely focus on regenerative permaculture on private and public landscapes. Tanja's main goals as an educator is to encourage a broader understanding of ecological systems with relationship building to the landscape by understanding their interactions. She loves to teach propagation as the foundation to learning how biology works. Tanja has 20 years of experience in teaching and working with children.
Register online by June 14th, 2021
Questions: Contact Lead Teacher - kimberly.leeper12@gmail.com
Tickets are $400 with some sliding scale available
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beacon-food-forest-food-forest-explorers-summer-camp-tickets-151697127191
Interested in applying for a scholarship - email: kimberly.leeper12@gmail.com
Note: After Registration - Two additional registration forms will be emailed to you beginning in early May.