Would your kids love some hands-on farm experience? You've found the perfect place! We love sharing our farm so we've created the perfect farm experience for your 7-12 year olds. Experiences vary, depending on the time of year your child joins us. Some of their opportunities may include:
  • Gardening
  • Sheep/Alpaca shearing
  • Wool processing from raw to a finished crocheted or woven project
  • Ferments, like kombucha or sauerkraut
  • Haymaking
  • Carving 
  • Making raw dairy products like butter & ice cream
  • Baby animals, like calves, mini donkeys, lambs, alpaca cria, and more
  • Foraging and crafts like basket weaving
  • Making bouquets
  • Outdoor cooking
  • Making fences
  • Farm animal care

We offer two options for our farm camp:
a) A week long experience. Your child will join us Monday - Friday from 9-1. We will spend our mornings together doing farm chores along with some fun experiences like preparing wool for spinning, foraging, making butter, caring for our animals, etc.
Pricing
$300 per child  
Sibling discount: First child is $300, each additional child is $275
Our tentative dates for our camp experience are May 27-31, June 24-28, and July 22-26. Dates are subject to change in the next couple months. 

b) Your child will join us every other Tuesday. They will get to help care for a kid's camp garden plot all summer, from seed to harvest. They will also get to help with daily chores, foraging, animal care, and farm related crafts like spinning, carving, making kombucha, and dairy products, and a wide range of other things. You pay per class, so your schedule will be flexible.
Pricing
$40 per day, per child
Sibling discount: First child is $40, each additional child is $35
Our tentative dates for the bi-weekly farm days are May 7, May 21, June 4, June 18,  July 2, July 16, July 30, August 13, August 27, September 7 (Saturday), September 14 (Saturday). Our garden harvests are ready in August/September. If the harvest goes into September, we will offer two Saturdays to accommodate school schedules.

You can mix and match these two option in whatever way they best suit your family.

    WEEK LONG CAMP | Form 1/3 | (Please fill out ALL forms)

    WEEK LONG CAMP | Form 2/3 | 

    WEEK LONG CAMP | Form 3/3 | 

    Acknowledgement and Assumption of Risks:
    ​    1. I understand and acknowledge that the Cactus Hills Farm programming in which the participant/my child will participate may be physically strenuous and has risks, dangers and hazards including, but not limited to:
    A. Hazards associated with being outdoors which may include walking/working on steep, slippery or uneven ground, holds, falling tree limbs or rocks, exposure to managed (grown) vegetables and unmanaged plants (those that grow in nature such as weeds, shrubs, trees, berries etc.), exposure to pollens, dusts.
    B. Unpredictable and changing weather that could result in exposure to sunlight, heat, cold, wet or windy weather, lightning, and animals, including dogs,, deer, elk, rodents, snakes, birds, tics, insects, bees, spiders, etc .
    C. Hazards associated with using hand tools and hammers, tweezers, scissors .
    D. Hazards associated with being around a wood stove.
    E. Hazards associated with being in or around a farm.
    F. Hazards associated with gardening such as lifting, bending, carrying buckets of produce and using hand tools such as shovels, hoes, trowels, shears and scissors and equipment such as ladders, wheel barrels, buckets, baskets, rope, wire, gloves, etc.
    G. Hazards associated with having direct contact with organic materials such as composted materials, food, scraps, earth, manures, worms, etc.
    H. Hazards associated with becoming separated from guides or companions and in inability to communicate or access rescue and medical help. I. Theft, vandalism or loss of personal property.
    J. Hazards associated with farm animals, cows, horses, donkeys, alpacas, sheep, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, cats and dogs.

    2. I acknowledge that participating in the Cactus Hills Farm program involves inherent risks and other risk hazards and dangers, including some not listed above that can cause or lead to death, injury, illness, property damage or loss, mental or emotional trauma, or disability.

    3. I have been informed of my right to obtain as much information about this program activity from Cactus Hills Farm as I feel necessary, including information beyond that information provided to me herein respecting the nature and the extent of risks and hazards associated with the program or activity and I acknowledge that I am satisfied with the information provided to me.

    4. I agree Cactus Hills Farm shall not be responsible for any adverse health or medical conditions of my child.

    5. In entering into this Agreement I am not relying upon any oral or written representations or statements made by the Released Parties other than what is set forth in this Agreement.

    6. I freely and voluntarily agree to assume all of the risks of the activities of my child’s Farm Camp program whether inherent or not and whether described above or not and understand any acknowledgement that my child, as a participant may suffer personal and potentially serious injury due to an unforeseeable or fortuitous event.
    7. Liability Release and Indemnity Agreement. I hereby release, indemnity and hold harmless Cactus Hills Farm and each of its respective employees, officers, independent contractors, subcontractors, volunteers and all other persons or entities acting for or under the discretion and control of Cactus Hills Farm and agree to waive any and all claims that my child or I have or my spouse or other parent or successors or assigns have or may have in the future against the Released Parties for, any loss, damage, injury, claim or expense in any way associated with my child’s participation in the Cactus Hills Farm program or the use of any equipment or facilities. Neither I nor anyone acting on my or my child’s behalf will make a claim against the Released Parties as a result of injury, illness, damage, death or loss to person or property, whether arising from negligence, breach of contract or breach of any statutory or other duties of care, including any duty of care owed under the Occupiers Liability Act or similar law for the exemption of liability on public and/or recreational lands. I further agree to hold harmless and indemnify the Released Parties from any and all liability for any damage to the property or, or personal injury to any third party, including other participants in the program resulting from any child’s participation in the program. I have read this Release of Liability and Assumption of risk, fully understand its terms, understand that I have given up substantial rights by signing it and sit it freely and voluntarily without any inducement. I agree that this form shall be binding on me, my minor and/or adult children participants, my spouse or partner and other family members, my heirs, executors, representatives, successors and assigns. I hereby confirm that I have legal authority to act on my child’s behalf. I agree on my own and on my child’s behalf to the terms and conditions in this document.
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