Spring Break Camp 4/11-4/14/22

2025 Shoreline Highway,Muir Beach CA 94965

11 April, 2022

Description

Slide Ranch's Coastal Scrub Camp offers nature exploration on our farm and coastal wild lands Coastal Scrub Camp is a new Slide Ranch program inspired by the greater-than-ever need to connect kids with nature and with each other! Coastal Scrub Camp offers children the opportunity for safe outdoor play in small, cooperative groups. For 52 years Slide Ranch has welcomed Bay Area youth and been a cornerstone of Marin’s environmental conservation and education movement. We recognize that we have an important role to play as stewards of federally protected land, organic farmers and ranchers, and environmental educators. Now more than ever children need to be outdoors, for their mental, emotional and physical health, and we feel fortunate to be able to provide an inspirational place for them to explore and thrive. This program will take place during spring break, Monday, 4/11-Thursday 4/14 from 9:30am-2:30pm. Multi-age pods of children (5 years old and up) will spend the day outside, exploring the magnificent and fascinating landscape of Slide Ranch, under the guidance of a Slide Ranch Teacher-in-Residence. Coastal Scrub Camp also welcomes Junior Environmental Educators, 14-18 years old, who cultivate their youth leadership and environmental education skills with their Slide Ranch teacher as a mentor. The program fee for Jr Environmental Educators is discounted 50%. The Slide Ranch landscape offers a rich variety of ecosystems, from native plants and animals in the coastal scrub to the rocky inter tidal zones of the coast, at the edge of the continent! We also represent the edge where the wildlands meet human habitation and agriculture, with a herd of goats and sheep on pasture, bee hives, chickens and ducks, and an organic garden. These environments naturally inspire wonder and curiosity and myriad possibilities for observation and inquiry-based learning. Our teaching approach is student-centered, and inquiry and project-based. Students participate in hands-on educational activities: exploring the coastal scrub ecosystem of Slide Ranch trails and marine ecology at our amazing tide pools, interacting with farm animals and learning about their roles on the farm. The curriculum also includes organic gardening projects: sowing seeds, composting, harvesting and cooking. Slide Ranch outdoor programs follow very comprehensive COVID-19 risk management protocols and guidelines established by CDC, MHHS and GGNRA, being exclusively outdoors, practicing rigorous personal hygiene and sanitation, and wearing face masks whenever we cannot maintain 6 feet of physical distance. We believe so much in the transformative power of camp that we are committed to ensuring that no child is denied a summer experience at Slide Ranch because of financial need. We’re here to help! We will work with you to make camp a possibility for your family. For scholarship information please email [email protected], or call 415.381.6155. Cancellation and Change Policy You will be eligible for a full refund (minus a $75 processing fee) if your cancellation is made at least 4 weeks before the Program start date. Cancellations received with less than 4 weeks' notice WILL NOT be eligible for a refund unless a replacement is available to take your spot. If you would like to reschedule your program, a $75 processing fee will be charged and changes will be accommodated only when there is space available.