Summer Farm Camp

Fun & Exploration at Farm Camp

Sauvie Island Center’s Farm Camp is outdoor experience where children are outside all day, every day soaking up the fresh air and sunshine. Each day at camp is a new adventure as we explore and learn on our site at Topaz Farm. Farm Camp is generously supported by our partners Providence Health & Services, Tillamook Creamery and Umpqua Bank.

Through traditional camp activities—like games, camp songs, arts and crafts and more—we’ll focus on different parts of the Sauvie Island Center curriculum including:

• Soil Exploration: Dig in and learn about healthy soil.
• Seed to Harvest: Plant, tend and harvest the Grow Lunch Garden.
• Plant Parts Investigation: Explore the farm and plants we can eat.
• Wildlife & Food Web: Who else has been foraging on the farm?
• Pollination Station: Meet these hard-working farm friends.

2024 Camp

We’ll be offering four camps of week. We’ll be partnered with Catlin Gabel for the first two weeks, during which they will handle all registration. They’re summer site goes live in mid-February. We’ll be fully operating the last two weeks, details and registration link below:

**CAMP REGISTRATION IS FULL** 

Week 1: July 22-26, Week 2: July 29- August 2

• Age: For children entering 2nd – 5th grades in the fall.
• Time: 9:00 – 2:30 each day
• Cost: Offered on a sliding scale from $0-325, we consider full price to be $275. More on the sliding scale and scholarships below*
• Other details: Campers will need to be dropped off and picked up at Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island. We can help to connect parents who are interested in carpooling.

If/when a week of camp is full we will place registrations on a waitlist and will be in touch if spaces become available.

*Sliding Scale and Scholarships: The full price of camp is $275, anything below that is considered a scholarship, and anything above that helps offset the costs of scholarships. Offering camp rates on a sliding scale helps us to provide camp for every interested family and continue to pay our staff fair wages.

Weather Policy

Check out our weather policies.

Refund Policy

Refund Policy: 30 days before camp date: full refund minus $25 processing fee; 29-11 days before date of camp: ½ refund minus $25 processing fee; 10 days or less before the start of camp: No Refund.

If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to cancel your summer camp registration, please reach out to us directly at helen@sauvieislandcenter.org for more information.