By: René McCrckken, NTCC Ag Director
There’s still time to enroll the kids in green-themed camps. Spring break camps everywhere are filling up fast, but slots remain open for camps where the fun and games revolve around food — growing it, that is. NTCC is hosting Spring Break "Life on the Farm" Camp for kids ages 8-16. It will be held March 15-18 from 9:00 a.m to 3:30 p.m. on the NTCC farm.
Don’t worry: Your kids will not become unpaid farmworkers who are forced to pull weeds and muck out pig stalls. But they will learn how to tend to vegetables and livestock and almost certainly taste the fruits of their labor. NTCC Sustainable Market Farm is thrilled to be hosting the second annual Life on the Farm Spring Break Camp for area youth. This camp has the typical traditional camp activities, such as crafts, sports and outdoor skills but all with a farm twist.
Here’s a small sampling of what’s going on at the NTCC Farm for spring break:
- Goat to be kidding me – learn all about goats from feeding to fencing and even get to milk one!
- Last one in – is a rotten egg: Learn about layer hens, gather eggs and even make boiled eggs and have an old fashioned egg hunt.
- A Planting we will go: create an herb garden and learn to care for the plants and how to cook with them.
- Farm to fork: Create a breakfast/brunch from the farm. Kids will make jelly, biscuits and eggs and have a wonderful farm style brunch on the final day of the camp.
The cost is $49 per student. To register for this event please call the Continuing Education Office Phone at 903-434-8134 or e-mail continuinged@ntcc.edu.
