Richmond’s KPU Farm is expanding its summer camp for kids this July.
A week-long camp is being offered twice for students going into Grades 5 through 7 this year at KPU Farm’s learning garden at Garden City Lands.
The camps will take place from July 17 to 21 and July 24 to 28 and costs $200 per student.
Last year, the camp was offered as a two-day pilot program to teach kids about gardening and where food comes from.
Piper Kenney, camp coordinator at KPU, said the pilot program saw high interest in learning more about local food systems that they expanded it.
“I think it’s always good to have kids know where their food comes from,” said Kenney.
She added the camp is an “expansion of the learning garden outreach space.”
“These spaces were developed to be a safe space and … take the concepts of what we do on this farm and condense them down into teachable activities.”
At the summer camp, kids will learn about food systems, natural dyes, design, physics, solar energy, insects and more.
“It’s neat to see where our food comes from and what are the possibilities with space, with the city, kind of the urban agriculture crossover as well.”
This year, the camp is also collaborating with KPU’s physics department and Wilson School of Design, according to Kenney.
Food and farming education is the main focus of the camp, and Kenney hopes students will leave with a better appreciation for food and where it comes from,.
“It’s just that sort of attention and spending time with a plant or a specific space to kind of learn how everything is related,” said Kenney.
“Farming touches pretty much everything in our world and I’m trying to expand upon that from food.”
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