Fairfax Summer Camp

Discover an adventure in your extended backyard. Look for animals, learn about edible plants, build shelters, and try your skills at ancestral arts. This camp showcases our core curriculum and one of the most beautiful parks in Marin. It is a good way to get to know our programs as a first-timer but fun and different enough each week for the experienced camper.

In addition to our core curriculum this program may include:

• Nature awareness skills
• Wilderness safety and knowledge of
• hazards
• Local flora and fauna
• Natural dyes
• Animal tracking
• Scout games and practices
• Bird language
• Shelter building and survival skills
• Mapping
• Wild edibles
• and more…

• Ages: 6.5–11 years old

• Location: This camp meets at a beautiful lake area 10 minutes from downtown Fairfax, CA

• Schedule: Multiple weeklong sessions offered throughout the summer, 9am–3pm daily

• Price: Tuition Per Session Rate A: $834, Rate B: $710, Rate C: $603

Fairfax Summer Camp is part of Vilda, which is dedicated to facilitating meaningful connections with the natural world. Vilda started in Fairfax, California in 2008 and has been running programs since then, now serving over 1000 kids a year in Marin, Sonoma, and Tahoe. The organization is a 501c(3) non-profit and provides nature education, youth programs, homeschool programs, and summer camps in several Bay Area communities and in Tahoe and Truckee. The program is led by Vilda’s founder, Mia Andler, and uses a badge system for the attainment of skills badges.

One parent of a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl describes the camp as a unique and positive nature experience of exploring and learning, speaking highly of the counselors. Another parent of two 7-year-old girls reports seeing changes in how their children notice nature, and a parent of a 9-year-old boy asserts that Vilda is their son’s favorite camp.

Vilda states that families in the Bay Area have differing abilities to pay and that it wants its programs to serve as many children as possible regardless of financial situation. Scholarships are available.