Back to the Earth
Ages 9-12
Sunday-Friday | $895-$1,095 (Sliding-Scale)
July 6-11 One Week Only!
Embrace the Adventure!
Gain foundational outdoor skills to last a lifetime. Overcome challenges with creativity, while playing hard, eating well, gaining independence, finding new interests and building self-confidence.
Campers will make a home base around the comforts of wilderness cabins and venture into the surrounding forests and waterways to practice new skills among friends and reconnect with the wild earth. To end the week, they will embark on an adventure on a wilderness overnight trip and sleep underneath the stars.
Some skills you may practice during the week:
- Carve fire kits & make fire
- Cook over open fire
- Identify and harvest wild edible plants
- Build and sleep in a natural shelter
- Knife Sharpening and safety
- Craft and use tools from stone and wood
- Create a musical masterpiece
- Play EPIC games
Full Moon Camp
Ages 13-16
Sunday-Friday | $895-$1,095 (Sliding-Scale)
July 6 – 11
One Week Only!
The Forest Awakens at night! This will be a specialized week for night time adventures under the light of the full moon. Playfulness and creativity will light our way as we craft stories and dream big together. Time for reflection, personal discovery and rejuvenation (think, sleeping in!) will abound.
Some things you may do during the week:
- Explore the nighttime forest as never before!
- Make and tell stories
- Connect to the other forest inhabitants through guided observation and interpretation
- Play nighttime games
- Journal, craft, reflect, rejuvenate
- Cook delicious food over the fire
Primitive Pursuits affirms that Black Lives Matter. We promise to do our best to, and to continue to learn how to, be a part of the work to eliminate structural racism and white supremacy in all of the spaces of our camp and the rest of our lives.
Primitive Pursuits is committed to the ongoing work of equity, diversity and inclusion. More importantly, we let all families know up front that Primitive Pursuits is a safe spacefor youth and bullying, harassment, or anything less than exuberant acceptance is not tolerated.
Primitive Pursuits is a non-profit 4-H program in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County.