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Lost and Found Summer 2025

Lost and Found Summer 2025

Do any of these items look familiar to you? If they are yours please email primitivepursuits@cornell.edu to claim them!   Did your child take one of these items home? We are looking for them!  

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Earthy Exploration – Week 4

Earthy Exploration – Week 4

Primitive Pursuits campers are all over the woods this week with groups at Ellis Hollow, Arnot Forest, and traveling camps in the forests! The Purple Finches, Yellow Warblers, Forest Village, and Pathfinders explored the trails and lush creek at Ellis Hollow while...

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Plant Playmates! – Week 3

Plant Playmates! – Week 3

Delicious Pie, Black Bean Brownies, and Fritters from Primitive Cafe! Week 3 at 4-H Acres got off to a rainy but fun start. Our forests have been lush from all the rain, so it is very fitting that this week's theme is plants! One of my favorite camps is running this...

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We were BLOWN away by the community and engagement our son felt this summer. He came home excited to share all the new things he had learned that day (from day 1!) – as well as show us his impressive collection of sticks, rocks, bows and arrows, cordage, etc. Primitive Pursuits has fostered such a love of outdoor learning and he loved seeing counselors through the weeks (especially Pickle!) who shared his excitement for being outside and exploring. We can’t wait to send him – and his younger sister – again next year, and we’ll be ready for the muddy clothes, collection of sticks, and stories of their adventures each afternoon. Thank you, Primitive Pursuits, for making this nervous mom feel great about dropping my kiddo off at camp each day!!”
S. W.

Parent