Farm-based Education

The virtual FBEN Summer Camp Learning Community will run January 19-March 15 on Zoom, and will use this space to support dialogue between sessions. Join this forum or Zoom if you offer summer camp on your farm! Each virtual meeting will follow a similar format, with participants introduceing themselves with the following prompts. 

- Your name, location, scale of your camp (# of campers, # of weeks offered) 
- What's working well in camp planning? 
- What's a recent frustration or challenge? 
- Have any resources or discoveries been particularly helpful to you so far in planning? 

We'll close the meeting with open discussion. This is a participant-driven space, with light facilitation. You're all the experts, and are welcome any time, even if you have to come late or leave early. 

Workshops will not be recorded. We'll ask for volunteers each week to help update the running notes document. 

Use this forum thread to post additional questions and continue the conversation here in the KidsGarden Community! 

I'd like to join the zoom meetings so we can exchange ideas about summer camps at our farms :)

The virtual FBEN Summer Camp Learning Community will run January 19-March 15 on Zoom, and will use this space to support dialogue between sessions. Join this forum or Zoom if you offer summer camp on your farm! Each virtual meeting will follow a similar format, with participants introduceing themselves with the following prompts. 

- Your name, location, scale of your camp (# of campers, # of weeks offered) 
- What's working well in camp planning? 
- What's a recent frustration or challenge? 
- Have any resources or discoveries been particularly helpful to you so far in planning? 

We'll close the meeting with open discussion. This is a participant-driven space, with light facilitation. You're all the experts, and are welcome any time, even if you have to come late or leave early. 

Workshops will not be recorded. We'll ask for volunteers each week to help update the running notes document. 

Use this forum thread to post additional questions and continue the conversation here in the KidsGarden Community! 

The virtual FBEN Summer Camp Learning Community will run January 19-March 15 on Zoom, and will use this space to support dialogue between sessions. Join this forum or Zoom if you offer summer camp on your farm! Each virtual meeting will follow a similar format, with participants introduceing themselves with the following prompts. 

- Your name, location, scale of your camp (# of campers, # of weeks offered) 
- What's working well in camp planning? 
- What's a recent frustration or challenge? 
- Have any resources or discoveries been particularly helpful to you so far in planning? 

We'll close the meeting with open discussion. This is a participant-driven space, with light facilitation. You're all the experts, and are welcome any time, even if you have to come late or leave early. 

Workshops will not be recorded. We'll ask for volunteers each week to help update the running notes document. 

Use this forum thread to post additional questions and continue the conversation here in the KidsGarden Community! 

I would love to participate as well! Let me know how to join the zoom calls and I will be there. 

The virtual FBEN Summer Camp Learning Community will run January 19-March 15 on Zoom, and will use this space to support dialogue between sessions. Join this forum or Zoom if you offer summer camp on your farm! Each virtual meeting will follow a similar format, with participants introduceing themselves with the following prompts. 

- Your name, location, scale of your camp (# of campers, # of weeks offered) 
- What's working well in camp planning? 
- What's a recent frustration or challenge? 
- Have any resources or discoveries been particularly helpful to you so far in planning? 

We'll close the meeting with open discussion. This is a participant-driven space, with light facilitation. You're all the experts, and are welcome any time, even if you have to come late or leave early. 

Workshops will not be recorded. We'll ask for volunteers each week to help update the running notes document. 

Use this forum thread to post additional questions and continue the conversation here in the KidsGarden Community! 

The virtual FBEN Summer Camp Learning Community will run January 19-March 15 on Zoom, and will use this space to support dialogue between sessions. Join this forum or Zoom if you offer summer camp on your farm! Each virtual meeting will follow a similar format, with participants introduceing themselves with the following prompts. 

- Your name, location, scale of your camp (# of campers, # of weeks offered) 
- What's working well in camp planning? 
- What's a recent frustration or challenge? 
- Have any resources or discoveries been particularly helpful to you so far in planning? 

We'll close the meeting with open discussion. This is a participant-driven space, with light facilitation. You're all the experts, and are welcome any time, even if you have to come late or leave early. 

Workshops will not be recorded. We'll ask for volunteers each week to help update the running notes document. 

Use this forum thread to post additional questions and continue the conversation here in the KidsGarden Community! 

For the last two summers, we have run a 4-hour daily summer camp at urban elementary schools in San Diego in under-resourced neighborhoods. We are waiting to hear on grant funding for next summer.

The virtual FBEN Summer Camp Learning Community will run January 19-March 15 on Zoom, and will use this space to support dialogue between sessions. Join this forum or Zoom if you offer summer camp on your farm! Each virtual meeting will follow a similar format, with participants introduceing themselves with the following prompts. 

- Your name, location, scale of your camp (# of campers, # of weeks offered) 
- What's working well in camp planning? 
- What's a recent frustration or challenge? 
- Have any resources or discoveries been particularly helpful to you so far in planning? 

We'll close the meeting with open discussion. This is a participant-driven space, with light facilitation. You're all the experts, and are welcome any time, even if you have to come late or leave early. 

Workshops will not be recorded. We'll ask for volunteers each week to help update the running notes document. 

Use this forum thread to post additional questions and continue the conversation here in the KidsGarden Community!