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The HEAL Project Summer Camp includes time for campers to plant, harvest, cook, hike, discover, craft, laugh, and learn through hands-on activities. Campers take part in cooking, arts and crafts, science activities, hiking, helping out with farm projects, and play-based experiences such as digging square, mud kitchen, snail races, using butterfly nets and magnifying glasses, and group games at the park. The daily flow includes free time and a group game at the park to start the day, outdoor activities after lunch, snack and a story time in the afternoon, and time playing in the willow trees or on the play structure in the park before pick-up.
• Schedule: Week-long sessions, capped at 24 campers per session
• Price: Pricing $575/session; 5% sibling discount
The HEAL Project Summer Camp is part of a broader program that, for 20 years, has followed the mission, “We teach kids where their food comes from and why it matters.” The summer camp is described as farm-based and is one of several hands-on, nature-based programs that also include field trips, garden classes, project-based learning experiences, and camps serving over 5,000 students each year. The program’s curriculum is focused on health, environment, and agricultural literacy and is fully aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards, and it offers a free, comprehensive school garden curriculum with 26 weeks of standards-backed lessons, downloadable guides, videos, and supplemental cultural and heritage content.
The camp is staffed with experienced outdoor educators, with a low staff-to-camper ratio that includes three staff members and one high school volunteer at every session, and a cap of 24 campers per week-long session. The organization notes a Plastic Free Pledge and offers programs to all students in San Mateo County through free or low-cost farm field trips. The HEAL Project’s former executive director from 2015–2024 is Amy Bono.
Parent feedback about the camp and related programs includes comments that children come home eager to cook and plant and that HEAL camp reinforces lessons about conserving, recycling, growing food, and being kind to living things. A third grade student described HEAL class as making them feel calm. Dr. Scott Morrow, San Mateo County Health Officer, stated that every child in San Mateo County should get to eat something they themselves planted and that when this happens in a school garden it has a positive impact on academic achievement, health, and the environment. Another parent shared that “the earth comes alive” for their child and that their child now understands the connection between food and the place from which it comes.
Last updated June 17, 2026.
• Schedule: Week-long sessions, capped at 24 campers per session
• Price: Pricing $575/session; 5% sibling discount
The HEAL Project Summer Camp is part of a broader program that, for 20 years, has followed the mission, “We teach kids where their food comes from and why it matters.” The summer camp is described as farm-based and is one of several hands-on, nature-based programs that also include field trips, garden classes, project-based learning experiences, and camps serving over 5,000 students each year. The program’s curriculum is focused on health, environment, and agricultural literacy and is fully aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards, and it offers a free, comprehensive school garden curriculum with 26 weeks of standards-backed lessons, downloadable guides, videos, and supplemental cultural and heritage content.
The camp is staffed with experienced outdoor educators, with a low staff-to-camper ratio that includes three staff members and one high school volunteer at every session, and a cap of 24 campers per week-long session. The organization notes a Plastic Free Pledge and offers programs to all students in San Mateo County through free or low-cost farm field trips. The HEAL Project’s former executive director from 2015–2024 is Amy Bono.
Parent feedback about the camp and related programs includes comments that children come home eager to cook and plant and that HEAL camp reinforces lessons about conserving, recycling, growing food, and being kind to living things. A third grade student described HEAL class as making them feel calm. Dr. Scott Morrow, San Mateo County Health Officer, stated that every child in San Mateo County should get to eat something they themselves planted and that when this happens in a school garden it has a positive impact on academic achievement, health, and the environment. Another parent shared that “the earth comes alive” for their child and that their child now understands the connection between food and the place from which it comes.
Last updated June 17, 2026.
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