Sprout Creek Farm
Sprout Creek Farm is a working farm, an educational center, a retail market, a peaceful sanctuary, a summer camp, a place for intellectual inquiry... Sprout Creek Farm is all these things.
Encompassing 200 acres in Dutchess County, NY, Sprout Creek Farm is really three different entities, distinct yet dynamically entertwined. It is a working farm, raising free-ranging cows, sheep, goats, wild turkeys, guinea fowl, chickens, and pigs. It is a market, selling our internationally award-winning cheeses and farm-produced meats, as well as local Hudson Valley milk, eggs, vegetables, crafts, and gifts. And it is an educational center, offering day, weekend, and summer programs that help connect young people to the land, the seasons, and the plants and animals that co-exist here in harmonious rhythm. Sprout Creek Farm, Inc. is a 501c3 incorporated not-for-profit organization and your gifts are tax-deductible.
Sprout Creek Farm Mission
As well as producing and selling our meats and cheeses, the purposes of the farm are:
•to provide educational experiences for children and adults that will foster appreciation for, and understanding of, our place within the natural world, and thus encourage responsibility for the future of our environment
•to offer programs that will reconnect people to the rich agricultural heritage of the United States
•to offer an experience of community as a model of peaceful living
•to offer programs in spiritual development, using the agricultural resources of the farm as both setting and starting point of such programs
Network Happenings at Sprout Creek Farm
Winter and Spring
Space in all programs is limited and filled on a first come first served basis. You may choose as many as you like, but don't wait 'til the cows come home to apply! You can pay using any credit card, or send in your check. We will confirm your reservation by email.
January 12-15: The Simple Life, Mommy Goes to Camp
Three days of bliss! Winter in the beautiful Hudson River Valley is an experience in itself. Now enter into the Sprout Creek Farm special blend of activity and reflection. Experience barns filled with animals, the aroma of hay, the sounds of cows and goats at feeding time. Milk them. Feed them. Collect multi-colored eggs from chickens and ducks. Imagine a small group of women cooking meals together, engaged in conversation, and laughing about life in the barns. This could be YOU. Explore the issues of the world from an entirely different perspective. Find yourself rejuvenated. Energized. You don't have to be a mommy, but you do have to be a woman to apply for this program. Come to camp! At the end of the program, all participants will receive a free half-pound wedge of one of Sprout Creek Farm's delectable cheeses. ($325.00)
The Simple Life application form
February 4: Adult Saturday Program
February 5-11: Goat Birthing Mini-Exchange
February 17-23: Atherton and Villa Duchesne High School students at Sprout Creek Farm
February 25: Spring on the Farm: Gardening and Kidding ($40)
1 - 5 p.m.
Garden Tour and introduction to garden planning and seed starting.
Goat Lesson including observation of milking, care and feeding of new kids (and of course some time to play with baby goats!).
February 28-29: Stuart student Retreat
March 4-9: 8th Grade Villa Duchesne students at Sprout Creek
March 17-23: Bloomfiled Hills High School students for Project Term
April 9-13: 5th and 6th grade Sacred Heart Students Atherton at Sprout Creek
April 13-17: Atherton adults at Sprout Creek
April 25: Greenwich 10th Grade Retreat
April 26-27: 91st Street 5th grade retreat
May 10-11: Stuart 7th Grade Overnight at Sprout Creek
May 15: Greenwich 4th Grade Day at the Farm
May 19: Farm-Based Activity That You Can Do at Home
10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Please bring a bag lunch
Bread and Butter and Simple Farm Cheese
Lunch
Gardening w/Kids and Worm Bin
Summer
Space in all programs is limited and filled on a first come first served basis. You may choose as many as you like, but don't wait 'til the cows come home to apply! You can pay using any credit card, or send in your check. We will confirm your reservation by email. Once applications and payment are received, complete documentation will be sent.
Project Harvest for Girls, ages 13-14
I: July 29-August 3, 2012
II: August 5-10, 2012
Planet Earth-Dig It for Girls and Boys, ages 15-16
July 22-July 27, 2012
