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Summer Programs 2025
Best of the South Shore Summer Programs Two Years in a Row!
Our farm is a living and breathing classroom
We seek to connect children to nature in a way that will stick with them for life! During our summer programs, children ages 3-14 make new friends, explore, adventure, and connect with the natural landscape and all of its wonderful creatures that inhabit it!
Connecting kids ages 3-14 to the natural world
Students experience life on a working certified organic and sustainable farm - plus explore surrounding conservation areas, meadows, woods, and Ice Pond. Children may learn to care for our beloved barnyard animals, observe native wildlife, participate in sustainable farming, create art inspired by nature, cook, adventure, practice survival skills, build and invent, and get out to explore our unique natural learning environment!
Our programs and curriculum are tailored to your child's specific age group, finding ways to engage and excite children from ages 3-14! Our programs offer a way for children to "graduate" to the next level summer after summer and learn new things every year!
We can't wait to explore and learn with your child this summer!
Current Members Register Early!
Early registration for Members opens Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 10 AM. *
Registration for everyone opens
Thursday, February 6, 2025 at noon.
*Become a Family-Level Member by midnight 2/2/25 to receive early access instructions for our popular summer programs. Click here to learn more about early registration day.
We offer tiered/reduced pricing and scholarships too! Submit scholarship inquiries by 1/31/25 to receive communications in advance of registration opening day. Learn more here
Ages 3-5
Garden Goats
This widely popular program is a terrific introduction to growing, working, and playing in an outdoor setting. During the week, children make frequent trips to visit the chickens, goats, donkey, and pony, getting to know the animal’s habits, what they eat, and even their individual personalities. In addition, they will plant and grow various crops, some of which they may bring home in their own decorated pots, and explore the red wigglers and other creatures of compost. Finally, the children will have adventures in the natural areas outside of the growing areas, including the Ice Pond, where they will find insects, amphibians, and all sorts of other creatures that use or make the pond their home. And along this journey, there will be many crafts, games, songs, and stories.
One week session
Half and full days
Weeks available:
Weeks 1-12: June 9 - August 29*
*Must be age 3 by their session start date and reliably potty-trained.
* June 19 and July 4 we will be closed in observance of the holidays. These 4-day weeks will be priced accordingly.
Questions about age requirements?
Ages 6-8
Monarchs
Our farm features many habitats, including growing areas, meadows, woods, marsh, and diverse flora & fauna. Children in this group will experience them all. Each day, we will work in the gardens, witnessing the plant’s cycle from seed to plant to flower to fruit while also performing chores to ensure the plants’ health and production of wonderful organic foods. We will also head out beyond the gardens with tools and strategies to explore and observe the wonders of nature, including pollinating insects, pond and marsh dwellers, life under rocks and logs, geological formations, and more. During these times, children will be able to collect simple data, record observations, make connections and predictions, create models, play games, and just have fun being immersed in the natural world.
One week sessions
Half and full days.
Weeks available:
Weeks 1-12: June 9 - August 29*
*Must be age 6-8 the session start date
Questions about age requirements?
* June 19 and July 4 we will be closed in observance of the holidays. These 4-day weeks will be priced accordingly.
Ages 9-12
Creativity & Cooking with Nature
Children will experiment with different art forms and cooking techniques while exploring the natural beauty of Holly Hill Farm. They may paint a meadow landscape with watercolors, draw the Tomato Barn with pencil or other tools, sculpt an animal out of clay, construct leaf mandalas and stone and shell mosaics, and weave with grasses from the fields and marshes. And each day will include a new set of recipes that utilize produce they harvest from our gardens. In the end, they will create art for all senses.
One week sessions
Half and full days
Weeks available:
Week 6: July 14 week
Week 8: July 28 week
Must be age 9-14 by session start date.
Questions about age requirements?
Outdoor Adventure
Children will explore and create within the secret areas around the farm, including the woods, meadows, and Ice Pond. Each outing will open their eyes to new places and possibilities as they learn to navigate, observe, and create. Children will use compasses, practice basic survival skills, build shelters, create civilizations, quest, and more during these adventurous weeks.
One week sessions
Half and full days.
Weeks available:
Week 5: July 7 week
Week 7: July 21 week
Must be age 9-14 by session start date.
Questions about age requirements?
NEW! Future Farmers
Children will learn how to plant, grow, care for, and harvest seasonal fruits and vegetables in our education garden and other areas of the farm. In addition to this work, students will also prepare much of the harvest for donation to food pantries. Other aspects of the experience include working with the compost, visits to the farm fields and greenhouses, building new garden boxes and beds, and so much more. Children will also have opportunities to explore the trails and see how the farm is part of a much larger ecosystem. And during downtime, they will play games and enjoy the tastes of the harvest..
One week session
Half and full days.
Week available:
Week 4: June 30 week
* On July 4 we will be closed for the holiday. This 4-day week session will be priced accordingly.
Must be age 9-14 by session start date.
Questions about age requirements?
Ages 12-15
Counselor-in-Training (CIT)
Learn about all the details and nuances of working with young kids (ages 3-8) while becoming a confident, resourceful teacher. All counselors-in-training (CITs) will work with the lead teacher to gain experience and insight to activities and ways to thoughtfully engage the younger campers in an outdoor setting. Certificates of completion will be handed out at week’s end and perhaps propel these counselors to return in a following year as a high school assistant teacher. CIT registrants must be willing to always be attentive to camper needs.
Half day available
Weeks available:
Weeks 1-12: June 9 -August 29
*The weeks of June 19 and July 4 are four-day weeks and priced accordingly.
Must be age 12 by session start date.
Farm to Food Pantry Program for High School Teens
Founded in 2012, the Farm to Food Pantry program welcomes students and volunteers year-round to participate in growing and donating produce to local area food pantries. Tasks include making compost, sowing seeds, transplanting, cooking, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, washing, and delivering the flowers, vegetables, flowers, and herbs.
During the summer we offer week long programs.
Schedule coming soon.
8:30-11:30 a.m.
Sign up for one week, a few or many.
This program uses a different registration site. Click the button below for more information and to register.
Early drop off
Would an earlier start work better for your family? Is your child a morning person? Join us for early drop-off!
the Children will be with a teacher, they may explore some of the early morning happenings on the farm, listen to a story, create in the barn, play outdoors or enjoy the beautiful morning and socialize with us and friends!
Sign up for one morning, or all mornings of your child's session.*
Can be added at time of registration or as the dates draw closer.
Ages 3-15
Must be registered for a half or full-day program the same week, to participate in early drop off program.
*June 19 & July 4 are observed holidays and there will be no programs on these days.
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