Sonoma Earth School Summer Camp
Ya-Ka-Ama, 7465 Steve Olson Lane, Forestville, CA 95436
About
Sonoma Earth School Summer Camp offers hands-on outdoor activities such as building forts and fairy houses, making paint from plants, and crafting jewelry from stones. Campers wade and swim in the Russian River, learn to track animal footprints, cook over a campfire, play nature games, and share stories under the trees during camp hours from 8:30AM to 1:00PM.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Camp hours 8:30AM–1:00PM
• Price: Camp hours 8:30AM–1:00PM, $350 per week; Extended care until 3:00PM, $100 per week; Extended care until 5:00PM, $200 per week
Sonoma Earth School was founded by husband and wife team, Tim and Leila Allen. The program’s mission is “Education through Nature,” with a mixed age learning environment, individualized academics, daily instruction in Spanish, and an immersion in the reciprocal relationship with nature. Sonoma Earth School describes itself as Sonoma County’s only outdoor elementary school for kindergarten through 8th grade, with a 1:3 teacher to student ratio, a small mixed-age learning community, and a bilingual Spanish/English approach that integrates academics into real-world, nature-based experiences. The organization states that “The Earth is our classroom. The Earth is our teacher.”
The program is registered with 4CS and states that it is committed to honoring both the history of the land it uses and its current place in today’s Native community through its curriculum and organizational practices. It notes that this land stands as a site for dance, gardening, ceremony, and education for all Native Peoples, including the local Southern Pomo tribes, Mishewal Wappo, the Koi Nation, and Coast Miwok.
Last updated March 10, 2026.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Camp hours 8:30AM–1:00PM
• Price: Camp hours 8:30AM–1:00PM, $350 per week; Extended care until 3:00PM, $100 per week; Extended care until 5:00PM, $200 per week
Sonoma Earth School was founded by husband and wife team, Tim and Leila Allen. The program’s mission is “Education through Nature,” with a mixed age learning environment, individualized academics, daily instruction in Spanish, and an immersion in the reciprocal relationship with nature. Sonoma Earth School describes itself as Sonoma County’s only outdoor elementary school for kindergarten through 8th grade, with a 1:3 teacher to student ratio, a small mixed-age learning community, and a bilingual Spanish/English approach that integrates academics into real-world, nature-based experiences. The organization states that “The Earth is our classroom. The Earth is our teacher.”
The program is registered with 4CS and states that it is committed to honoring both the history of the land it uses and its current place in today’s Native community through its curriculum and organizational practices. It notes that this land stands as a site for dance, gardening, ceremony, and education for all Native Peoples, including the local Southern Pomo tribes, Mishewal Wappo, the Koi Nation, and Coast Miwok.
Last updated March 10, 2026.
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