“This was the best camp I have EVER been to.” — 5th grader

“The TVF staff are amazing with kids. I knew my kid was safe and having a memorable experience.” — Parent

TUCSON VILLAGE FARM

2019

TUCSON VILLAGE FARM

Tucson Village Farm believes in experiential learning,

and this summer your campers can experience it all!

From farm to fork to canning and carpentry, our friendly,

seasoned educators will give your child the best summer

experience and skills to last a lifetime.

Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Associate Dean & Director, Economic Development & Extension, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona. The University of Arizona is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation in its programs and activities.

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4210 N. Campbell Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85719

Register online!TucsonVillageFarm.Arizona.edu

SPROUTS CAMPMay 28th - May 31st • 8:00 am – 12:00 pmAges: 4 & 5 • Tuition: $180Sprouts Camp is the perfect camp for exposing your little one to science, gardening, environmental steward-ship, and healthy eating, all through fun farm activities! Campers will spend the morning hours exploring the farm and helping us with daily farm chores, like harvest-ing, planting, feeding the chickens, and checking on the worms. To beat the heat, campers will move indoors to learn how to prepare healthy snacks with veggies from our own gardens and for farm arts and crafts. FIRST FARMERSJune 17th - June 21st8:00 am – 3:00 pmAges: 6-8 • Tuition: $275At First Farmers, campers will ex-plore everything that the farm has to offer. From planting seeds, harvesting potatoes and caring for chickens to spending time in the kitchen creating a simple delicious lunch with fresh farm produce, campers will participate in a full farm-to-table experience! 4-H ADVENTURE CAMPJune 3rd-7th OR June 10th-14thAges 9-14 • Tuition: $425; Optional bus ride to camp $45 each wayDue to popular demand, we will be hosting TWO weeks of 4-H Adventure Camp this year. 4-H Adventure Camp is the quintessential summer camp experi-ence! Join us on our annual expedition to Prescott, Arizona where we’ll explore the highlands, marvel at mother nature and ponder the ponderosa pines on Mingus Mountain. We will be offering a huge variety of fun camp activities based on 3 different age levels, including hiking, fishing, lake swimming (with a slide!), games, campfires and more! Getting to camp...There are two ways to get your camper to Mingus Mountain: A. You can drop them off Monday at noon and pick them up Friday at 11:30. Or B.

The bus which costs $45 each way. The bus will leave Tucson Village Farm at 8:00 on Monday and return at 5pm on Friday. We a limited number of spots. They will sell fast. Once they are sold, they are gone.

FARM TO FORK CULINARY CAMP: BUDDING CHEFSJune 10th-14th • Ages 8-10 8:00 am – 3:00 pm • Tuition: $275If you like good food and good fun, join Farm to Fork Culinary Camp: Budding Chefs where campers get deli-cious and educational farm-to-table cooking experiences! Campers will harvest from TVF’s bountiful summer garden and bring that produce right into the kitchen. They will learn a variety of essential culinary skills and techniques through hands-on lessons and demonstrations. But that’s not all! Visits from guest chefs and special lessons on the science of cooking will be the “icing on the cake”!

FARM TO FORK CULINARY CAMP: MASTER CHEFSJune 24th-28th • 8:00 am – 3:00 pmAges: 11-13 • Tuition: $275This year TVF is excited to be introducing a brand NEW cooking camp: Farm to Table Culinary Camp: Master Chefs! This camp will feature our outrageously popular Iron Chef competition and our beloved farm-to-table cooking lessons. Campers will be challenged to at-tempt more difficult culinary endeavors and tackle more advanced recipes. Our hands-on cooking lessons will

encourage campers to use both their technical understand-ing of cooking and their own personal creativity to create healthy, mouth-watering meals! This camp is perfect for vet-erans of our original Farm Flay-Vahs camps and for students with an existing knowledge of kitchen basics.

ARIZONA YOUTH PREPAREDNESS INITIATIVE SUMMER CAMP (MYPI)June 24th-28th • 9:00 am – 1:00 pmYouth Ages 14-19 • $25Campers will receive Community Emergency Response Team training concentrated on learning skills in the follow-ing areas: disaster preparedness, fire safety & suppression, disaster medical operation, treatment of injuries, search and rescue, disaster psychology, and more!

Not only will the “MyPI” camp allow youth members to build life-saving skill sets, be able to identify hazards, develop emergency kits and communication plans, but also give back to their communities through the “MyPI” service project! At the end of the week, campers will leave with more knowledge as well as CPR and AED Certification.

BAWK, SQUAWK, LIVESTOCK!July 8th-12th • 8:00 am – 3:00 pmAges: 10-12 • Tuition: $275Calling animal-lovers near and far! Join us in our very first camp devoted ENTIRELY to the animals on a farm. In the morning campers will get up close and personal with all types of farm animals, learning the ins and outs of best-practice livestock care. When the day heats up, campers will move indoors for hands-on educational lessons, Q&A sessions with livestock professionals, and educational animal care video lessons. If your camper loves farm animals or aspires to raise them one day, they won’t want to miss this camp!

ART IN THE GARDENJuly 15th-19th • 8:00 am – 12:00 pmAges: 8-11 • Tuition: $200Art in the Garden is designed to cultivate creativity and love for nature. This camp will allow kids to learn basic art skills through drawing, painting, photography, and craft mak-ing using the farm for inspiration and materials, and to cre-ate something beautiful for our garden. Guest artists from the Tucson community will come to teach participants to be young artists and environmental stewards. Campers will wrap up the camp with an art show to exhibit all they’ve created.

You can register online! TucsonVillageFarm.Arizona.edu