About this Event
Put on your farm boots, roll up your sleeves, and get ready to get your hands dirty! Farm Camp invites campers into the real rhythms of farm life — where soil matters, animals depend on you, and growth takes time.
This is a recurring camp that meets once per week for three consecutive weeks. Each session builds on the one before it, allowing campers to continue projects, take on new responsibilities, and see real progress in the soil, the fields, and with the animals.
This isn’t a one-day experience — it’s three consecutive weekly sessions of digging, planting, caring for, and watching something grow because you helped make it happen.
Each week has a distinct focus while continuing previous work:
Week 1, June 24th: Soil & Planting — Compost, bed preparation, and planting crops that campers will maintain throughout the program.
Week 2, July 1st: Animal Care & Responsibility — Livestock management, daily farm routines, and the role animals play in a working farm.
Week 3, July 8th: Stewardship & Sustainability — Crop maintenance, organic practices, food systems, and seeing the full picture of how soil, animals, and people work together.
Farm Camp is active, hands-on, and outdoors. Campers should come ready to move, work, and engage with real farm responsibilities. Growth takes patience — and over three weeks, they’ll see firsthand what consistent care can produce.
Throughout the three sessions, campers will:
- Prepare and amend soil, learn about composting, and understand what makes healthy soil thrive
- Plant and maintain raised beds with fast-growing crops or flowers they will care for each week
- Water, W**d, prune, and observe plant growth over time
- Learn about livestock care through hands-on interaction with our chickens, goats, and pig — including feeding, cleaning pens, understanding animal needs, and discussing responsible meat harvesting
- Explore sustainable and organic farming practices alongside our partner growers, who produce over 20,000 pounds of food annually
- Learn about pest management without chemicals, soil health, crop rotation, and stewardship of the land
- Discuss food systems, where food comes from, and the responsibility that comes with raising it
Each day runs from 9:30am-2:30pm. We will start and end in St. Francis Hall, located in our main CEC Neu Building. (see map below)
**Important Notes:
All campers need to come with water bottles and lunches.
One ticket covers all three camp dates.
New this year: you can request up to two other campers to be in a group with. We will do our best to honor these requests. Please note: requests are not guaranteed.
Discounted "Early Bird" registration available through March 31st.
Those with an active CEC Family Membership are eligible for even greater discounts. Become a member HERE. Not sure if your membership is active? Contact [email protected]
Online registration only. Ticket sales close at 3pm the day before the first camp date.
Refunds not available within two weeks of the camp date.
Interested, but its sold out? Email [email protected] and request to be added to the wait list.
The Catholic Ecology Center sits on nearly 60 acres, part of a 225-acre preserve complex, of diverse habitats including prairies, forests, the Rubicon River, Otter Creek, a pond, and organic gardening areas.
Find all of our events at www.CatholicEcologyCenter.org/events
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Catholic Ecology Center, w1468 County Road NN, Neosho, United States
USD 97.88 to USD 145.90
