Enrollment coming soon!
June 8-9 (Two-day): Wildcrafting and Gardening
5pm – 6:45pm, All ages welcome!
Students will either meet at Jen’s house to work on the medicine garden or in local areas where we can harvest wild plants. We will do plant walks, gardening info, talk about the most abundant plants for medicine, and how to harvest/dry/store plants for use in an herbal apothecary. These classes are optional, but highly recommended! Two of these classes are one way to meet the gardening requirement for Herbalist II and/or the Provider track.
Instructors: Jen-Osha Buysse, Lauren Martin
Cost: Free
June 15-16 (Two-day): Wildcrafting and Gardening
5pm – 6:45pm, All ages welcome!
Students will either meet at Jen’s house to work on the medicine garden or in local areas where we can harvest wild plants. We will do plant walks, gardening info, talk about the most abundant plants for medicine, and how to harvest/dry/store plants for use in an herbal apothecary. These classes are optional, but highly recommended! Two of these classes are one way to meet the gardening requirement for Herbalist II and/or the Provider track.
Instructors: Jen-Osha Buysse, Lauren Martin
Cost: Free
June 15-18 (Half-day): Forts, Forts, Forts!
9am – 12pm, grades 3 – 12
This multi-age workshop is all about having fun in the woods! One of our favorite things to do here at Mountain SOL is build forts and debris huts. In this workshop we’ll use our imagination and create forts big and small across the property, learn how to use different natural materials to make structures, and experiment with the different resources available in the area.
Instructors: Bella Zucker, Bethany Boback
Cost: $105
June 20 – 21 (Saturday-Sunday Overnight): Mountain SOLstice celebration!
10am-10am, All ages welcome!
Join us for a Mountain SOL summer solstice campout party! This is a chance to hang out with our older Mountain SOL alumni as we gather our Mountain SOL community to celebrate our natural world on the longest day of the year.
Cost: Free
July 22 – 25 (Half-day): Insect Camp
1pm – 4pm, grades 3 – 5
Join us in discovering the crawling-wiggling-flying-weaving and burrowing insects that live among us. We will be looking under logs and rocks and in the trees or under leaves. We will be using tools to safely capture and observe insects just like entomologists. We will be identifying and discussing the “awesome-ness” of each specimen and the important role they play in our ecosystem. Lastly, we will create our very own insects!
Instructor: Chris Schwinghamer
Cost: $105
July 6 – 9 (Half-day): Fire-Building 101/Advanced
9am – 12pm, grades 3 – 12
In this class, Paula teaches Fire 101 while Benjamin teaches Advanced Fire.
Fire 101: Ages 9 – 12
This workshop introduces campers to the basics of fire-building: site preparation, fire components (fuel, heat, oxygen), fuel gathering and tinder/kindling construction, fire maintenance, and fire safety and responsibility. Campers will take home their own basic fire starting kit!
Advanced Fire: Ages 12 and up OR currently in Mtn Zorros
Campers’ focus will be on making fires under wet conditions, making scout fires for safety and warmth, and continual development of campers’ fire-making kits. Campers also will learn more about native plants to use for fires. This class does not teach bow drill or hand drill fire-making but rather teaches to use skills under more demanding situations. While we take kids as young as 12, the subject matter is appropriate for high school students.
Instructors: Benjamin Tower, Paula Taylor
Cost: $105
July 6 – 9 (Half-day): Intro to Sur-thrival
1pm – 4pm, grades 3 – 8
This class will build on the basic woods skills learned in Woodscraft and Wildery or Mountain Mallards. Students will learn knot-tying, basic tarp shelter building, and campsite set-up. They will also participate in scenarios to practice their skills!
Instructors: Bella Zucker, Bethany Boback
Cost: $105
Take both Fire-building 101 and Intro to Sur-thrival, plus the $25 lunch hour, to build a full-day workshop from 9am-4pm Monday through Thursday!
July 13 – 16 (Half-day): Green Thumbs in the Garden
9am – 12pm, grades K – 5
Join Ms. T for some gardening fun! We will use our senses to learn about the plants in our garden. Our senses of smell, taste, touch, and sight will be used to get to know our plant friends in the garden.
Instructors: Paula Taylor
Cost: $105
July 15 – 16 (Two-day): Butterflies, Moths, and Gardens
9am – 12pm, grades K – 5
In this workshop, we will not only safely capture, identify and observe the most delicate of our flying insects, we will spend time planting and tending to the gardens that encourage our flying friends to return each year. This workshop includes identifying native host plants and discussing various life cycles involved in this relationship. Each participant will leave with their own “starter pollinator garden.”
Instructor: Bethany Boback
Cost: $50
Take both Green Thumbs in the Garden and Butterflies, Moths, and Gardens, plus the $25 lunch hour, to build a full-day workshop from 9am-4pm for Wednesday and Thursday!
July 20 – 23 (Half-day): Woods-Walking
9am – 12pm, K – 5
In this workshop, we will be exploring the woods to learn about the big plants and animals, like trees and deer, as well as the smallest plants and animals, like moss and tardigrades. All of these living things work and live together in our woods! We’ll become super detectives and zoom in closely to the living world around us.
Instructors: Paula Taylor
Cost: $105
August 3 – 6 (Half-day): Herbology 101
9am – 12pm, grades 3 – 8
For our younger students who love plants! This class gives an introduction to the identification and use of some of the plants on our property, even teaching some medicinal properties of the plants! Our students will learn how to safely identify and use the food and medicine growing right in their backyards!
Instructors: Bella Zucker, Jen-Osha Buysse
Cost: $105
August 3 – 6 (Half-day): Tracking
1pm – 4pm, grades 3 – 12
This tracking class will be for the beginners among us. Campers will be able to learn the four ways animals move and tell-tale signs when tracking. By the end of this week, we’ll be able to follow a trail and determine what animal was walking through the property.
Instructors: Elijah Wellings-Osha, Jen-Osha Buysse
Cost: $105
Take both Herbology 101 and Tracking, plus the $25 lunch hour, to build a full-day workshop from 9am-4pm Monday through Thursday!
August 17-18 (Two-day): Wildcrafting and Gardening
5pm – 6:45pm, All ages welcome!
Students will either meet at Jen’s house to work on the medicine garden or in local areas where we can harvest wild plants. We will do plant walks, gardening info, talk about the most abundant plants for medicine, and how to harvest/dry/store plants for use in an herbal apothecary. These classes are optional, but highly recommended! Two of these classes are one way to meet the gardening requirement for Herbalist II and/or the Provider track.
Instructors: Jen-Osha Buysse, Lauren Martin
Cost: Free