WILDCRAFTER’S WORKSHOP

Heeks Farm Wildcrafter's Workshop is an immersive, hands-on camp where kids learn core wilderness crafts—such as building shelters, making fire, cooking outdoors, and making useful tools from stones and plants.

  • Ages: 9-12

  • Location: Our 75-acre farm in Rougemont

  • Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM (M-F)

  • Dates: June 8-12, June 15-19, June 22-26, June 29-July 2

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What is WILDCRAFTER’S WORKSHOP?

A program for kids 9-12 interested in nature knowledge, functional crafts, and wilderness skills on our 75-acre farm with forests, open fields, creeks, and springs. Each day is balanced between specialized skill instruction, free nature exploration, hammock time, and games.

    • Shelter building: tarp tents, lean-to, leaf hut, wickiup, mini-earth lodge, or anything else you can imagine with sticks, logs, branches, leaves, grass and mud

    • Fiber: make string and rope from native plants, learn simple knots, use vines and grasses to make baskets

    • Fire-making: learn the recipe for bringing fire to life, focusing on tinder collection, kindling, fire construction, and making sparks

    • Flint knapping: learn the basics of making tools from stone

    • Cooking with fire: underground roasting pits, three-rock fire, tripod hangs, earth ovens, green wood grill.

    • Plant and animal identification: learn how to id trees, plants and animals

    • Games in the field and forest: animal tag, capture the flag, sharks and minnows

    • Games in and around the barn: ping pong, foosball, 4-square, games with balls

    • Board and card games

    • Reading or relaxing in a hammock

    • 50 acres of forests with trails

    • 25 acres of fields

    • Creeks, springs, and pond

    • A barn with a kitchen and bathroom

    • Blueberries and blackberries

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sample daily schedule