Educational Farm & Nature Preserve

3083 Liberty Road Delaware, Ohio 43015
740-363-2548

We are open to the public:
Monday - Friday,
9-5
Closed: Saturday, Sunday
and holidays

Getting to Stratford:

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A $2 per person or $5 per family donation is appreciated for those wishing to spend time at Stratford.

farm camp 2012

Register for Camp TODAY!

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• Ages 3 – 5
  Fee: $110
  July 16 – 20 or
  July 23 – 27
  Monday – Friday, 9:30 – 11:30

  A caregiver must accompany camper.

  Parent and child will experience the farm together through simple and playful activities.  Children will care for the farm animals, spend time in the forest, and will discover the joys of planting and tasting things directly from the earth.

• Ages 6 – 8
  Fee: $185
  June 11 – 15 (FULL) or
  June 18 – 22 (FULL) or
  June 25 – 29 (FULL)
  Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 3:00

  Daily campers will tend to the farm animals; feeding, watering, milking and collecting eggs.  The easy rhythmus of the farm will carry the children from chores to play and back again.   Days will become adventures as children explore the forest, turning nature into paint, mossy bark into fairy homes, and hole into hideouts.

• Ages 9 – 12
  Fee: $220
  July 30 – August 3 or
  August 6 – 10
  Monday – Wednesday 9:00 – 4:00, Thursday 9:00 – noon Friday
  
  Each day, campers will fall easily into the rhythm of the farm by participating in animal chores, planting the fall crops, tending the summer vegetables and preparing for the farmer’s market.  These experiences allow older children to build upon their knowledge of the cycles of the earth.  Their week will conclude with an overnight spent under the stars.

• Junior Counselor Program;
  for youth ages 13 – 17
  Fee: $220
  June 7&8 AND one or more week(s) of 6 – 8 year camp.
  Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 3:00
  
  The Junior Counselor Program is an exciting addition to Stratford’s Farm Camp program.   As a Junior Counselor teens act as a link between campers and Senior Counselors caring on the traditions and generating much of the spirit within Farm Camp.     Youth ages 13 – 17 will spend two days with our Environmental Education Interns developing their counselor skills before being assigned to a fun filled week with our six to eight year old campers.

Stratford's organic farm intimately connects children to their food; placing a seed in the Earth and tasting a leaf of spinach, giving water to a chicken and washing a freshly laid egg.

On the farm and in the forest, discovery is everywhere; in the animal holes in the ground and in the search for a perfect berry. Mystery surrounds children, filling their body with a longing to explore and a curiosity to uncover for themselves the meaning of things. At Stratford, we use play to learn with all our body; we become squirrels; we breathe in tandem with the trees. Learning is the pleasant consequence of play, when play interacts with the natural world.

Our hope is that by encouraging appreciation in a child, we are fostering a lifelong respect for the beauty and diversity of life around us.