About
Earth Camp offers activities such as wanders, hikes, tracking, bird language, rockhounding, and stalking ducks and frogs. Participants spend time finding insects, reptiles, amphibians, and nests, noticing clouds, playing in the creek, making forts, drawing plants or scenes, and keeping nature journals. The program also includes stewardship projects, gardening, clearing blackberries, pressing apple juice, gathering wild foods, and using a compass along with lostproofing games.
Earth Camp includes a wide range of hands-on projects such as building a solar oven, building with cob and willow, making debris shelters, gathering water, processing leather, making cordage, basket making, making tule fish and cattail hats, and creating flower crafts and Andy Goldsworthy style art. Participants make grass bracelets, leather pouches, bamboo and gourd rhythm instruments, homemade drills, soapstone and seed necklaces, homemade looms, woven grass mats, bird feeders, recycled art, and pinhole cameras, and they also do woodworking and music. The program features solar projects such as a solar food drier, a solar photovoltaic fountain, and making cob bug ovens.
Earth Camp includes caring for chickens and goats, milking goats, incubating eggs, making cheese, making dye from plants, making herbal salves, pickling, preserving food with a solar food drier, making mushroom kits, dyeing wool with plants, and finger knitting. Activities also include belayed tree climbing, slackline, climbing silks, trapeze, a “coon cave” adventure, archery, making fire without matches, camouflage hide and seek, animal imitation games, predator-prey games, yoga, and music with guitar and banjo. Elder Storytime is part of the program, and once a week Earth Camp honors a local elder with gratitude for a gift of story, and each week the program has 1–3 activities taught by a special guest, including offerings such as mushroom kits, yoga, cob bug ovens, dyeing wool with plants, finger knitting, and a solar photovoltaic fountain.
Earth Camp was founded in 2007 by Vanessa Eyen and Kyle Collins. In April 2012, Vanessa and Kyle passed Earth Camp on to Bev and Mark Buswell (also known as “Farmer Buzz”) as owners, with Jamie Malone as director. Jamie Malone was director of Earth Camp for 6 of the first 8 years, began Earth Camp programs on her property in Sebastopol in 2021, and is the owner and director of Earth Camp. Jamie holds a clear single subject teaching credential and a Master’s Degree in Education with a focus on Wilderness Education.
The mission of Earth Camp states that, running with the innate exuberant wonder of a child towards nature, the program nurtures imagination, inquisitiveness, confidence, creativity, resourcefulness and a connection to, gratitude for and understanding of the world around them. The mission further states that through stewardship, nature arts, sustainable living skills, and utilization of resources available to a child in a natural setting, children develop gratitude and a love of nature, and that this connection to nature will be a treasure that children can continually return to in their life for growth, values, compassion, wisdom and joy in their lives. Earth Camp has a history of operating at farms and nature-based school settings in Sebastopol and features music that includes Farmer Buzz with his guitar or banjo and occasional guests with didgeridoo.
Last updated June 26, 2026.
Earth Camp includes a wide range of hands-on projects such as building a solar oven, building with cob and willow, making debris shelters, gathering water, processing leather, making cordage, basket making, making tule fish and cattail hats, and creating flower crafts and Andy Goldsworthy style art. Participants make grass bracelets, leather pouches, bamboo and gourd rhythm instruments, homemade drills, soapstone and seed necklaces, homemade looms, woven grass mats, bird feeders, recycled art, and pinhole cameras, and they also do woodworking and music. The program features solar projects such as a solar food drier, a solar photovoltaic fountain, and making cob bug ovens.
Earth Camp includes caring for chickens and goats, milking goats, incubating eggs, making cheese, making dye from plants, making herbal salves, pickling, preserving food with a solar food drier, making mushroom kits, dyeing wool with plants, and finger knitting. Activities also include belayed tree climbing, slackline, climbing silks, trapeze, a “coon cave” adventure, archery, making fire without matches, camouflage hide and seek, animal imitation games, predator-prey games, yoga, and music with guitar and banjo. Elder Storytime is part of the program, and once a week Earth Camp honors a local elder with gratitude for a gift of story, and each week the program has 1–3 activities taught by a special guest, including offerings such as mushroom kits, yoga, cob bug ovens, dyeing wool with plants, finger knitting, and a solar photovoltaic fountain.
Earth Camp was founded in 2007 by Vanessa Eyen and Kyle Collins. In April 2012, Vanessa and Kyle passed Earth Camp on to Bev and Mark Buswell (also known as “Farmer Buzz”) as owners, with Jamie Malone as director. Jamie Malone was director of Earth Camp for 6 of the first 8 years, began Earth Camp programs on her property in Sebastopol in 2021, and is the owner and director of Earth Camp. Jamie holds a clear single subject teaching credential and a Master’s Degree in Education with a focus on Wilderness Education.
The mission of Earth Camp states that, running with the innate exuberant wonder of a child towards nature, the program nurtures imagination, inquisitiveness, confidence, creativity, resourcefulness and a connection to, gratitude for and understanding of the world around them. The mission further states that through stewardship, nature arts, sustainable living skills, and utilization of resources available to a child in a natural setting, children develop gratitude and a love of nature, and that this connection to nature will be a treasure that children can continually return to in their life for growth, values, compassion, wisdom and joy in their lives. Earth Camp has a history of operating at farms and nature-based school settings in Sebastopol and features music that includes Farmer Buzz with his guitar or banjo and occasional guests with didgeridoo.
Last updated June 26, 2026.
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