Summer Camp

Summer Camp includes activities such as tending to the garden, planting seeds, harvesting crops, and caring for the garden. Campers explore through the lens of art and science, make art from nature and sustainable materials, and create farm-inspired art. The program also features visiting friendly goats, meeting goat kids and the guardian llama Hazel, learning how to milk dairy goats, exploring the farm’s vibrant flowers, learning about helpful honeybees and worms, and discovering composting. Additional activities include tracking pollinators through flower fields, digging into the soil to uncover important helpers, launching seeds with a handmade catapult, garden challenges, outdoor games, team-building games, skits, movement, classic camp crafts, nature journaling, sensory explorations, innovative projects, building projects and structures for plants, hands-on challenges, hands-on cooking, creating new seasonal recipes, learning basic knife skills and cooking techniques, making tasty snacks from harvests, water activities in the pool, gymnastics, crafts, and gym games.

• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
• Price: Peace Garden Summer Camp – $505–$555/week; Creative Roots: Art in the Garden – $505/week; Sprouts & Shovels: Growing Future Farmers – $505/week; Farm to Fork: Seasonal Summer Cuisine – $555/week; Goats & Gardens Summer Camp – $555/week

Summer Camp includes Peace Garden Summer Camp, Goats and Gardens Camp, Creative Roots: Art in the Garden, Sprouts & Shovels: Growing Future Farmers, and Farm to Fork: Seasonal Summer Cuisine. Campers are placed into smaller groups of 15 for daily activities, with a maximum of 60 campers per week, including 30 in Peace Garden Camps and 30 in Goats and Garden Camps. The program focuses on regenerative agriculture practices and places emphasis on environmental stewardship, and it includes both farm and recreation center activities.

Growing Gardens’ mission is to cultivate community through regenerative urban agriculture. Over the last 25 years, Growing Gardens has brought regenerative agriculture education and food donations to over 136,000 Boulder County residents, and thousands of pounds of produce, plant starts, and seeds are donated to low income community members for greater food security and hunger relief. The leadership team includes Executive Director Vanessa Keeley; Site Director Lauren Kelso; Grant Director Erika Carlson; Senior Farm Manager Sarah Kell; Food Project Senior Manager / Food Project Farm Manager Tim Villard; CSA Manager / Food Project & Boulder Farm Coordinator Wes Vaughn; Greenhouse and Facilities Manager Lauren Festa; Community Inclusion Manager Carolina Neri; Operations and Community Garden Manager Shawn Connell; Operations Coordinator Quincey Williams; Education Program Director / Program Manager Megan Reynoso; Education Program Coordinators Tatum Figone and Maya Alves; Development and Donor Relations Director / Donor Development Manager Carly Silberman; Development and Communications Director / Marketing and Development Manager Kennedy Walker; Marketing & Development Coordinator Emmalee Banta; Herd Manager David Trevino; and Herd Coordinator Michael Hughey. One parent described Peace Garden Summer Camp as having unique, thoughtful weekly themes and shared that their child attended two weeks of camp and that they plan to return next summer.

Last updated June 4, 2026.