Author: Beth Benjamin
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice, Olive Huxley
Where I grew up is not what one would necessarily call the norm. In 1971, my grandparents founded Camp Joy Gardens, a teaching nonprofit farm. They raised my mom and… Read more »
Fire, Lake, Facebook
I’m afraid to lift the lid of my computer. Closed, it keeps its news to itself. Opened, hand-sized vine maple leaves might float down with charred edges, no wind, just… Read more »
Camp Joy Kids Program & Homeschooling, by Poppy Nelson
May 2020 My life started as a being who felt everything. I still can. I am very sensitive to other’s energy. This can make it tiring to be around a… Read more »
Alan Chadwick, Santa Barbara, Feb. 25, 1975 transcribed by Linda Thranow
Greetings. If there is any difficulty in audibility, please signal violently. May I please read 2 short statements that will lead into our subject? Mrs. Lindsay Robb, in a lecture… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Maria Jackson, 2016-2019
Camp Joy means a family away from my family. It means a place where I can feel at home– be surrounded by good people, fabulous food, beauty, and love. It… Read more »
Reminiscences from Camp Joy Apprentice Steve Sprinkel, 1972-1975
Big Garden Considering how grateful I am for my experience at Camp Joy is like expecting a wave to explain how it feels about the wind. I could write a… Read more »
Flower Gardening Tips
There is still time to plant sweet peas and hardy spring blooming annuals like poppies, cornflowers, larkspur, agrostemma, godetia and California wildflower varieties that like to make growth before the… Read more »
Early Spring Gardening Tips
Nights are really cold, rainy and wintery weather is definitely still with us, but you can tell the days are getting longer. Plum and flowering quince are blooming or budding… Read more »
Water Becoming
Water is only change Still depth in a mountain pool, now a tumble of light and movement slipping over the granite edge crashing downward, blown sideways, making its own weather… Read more »
Vegetable Solace
I am a home gardener in exile, far from my native soil,. I farm in one huge planter long enough to inter both parents end to end, if that were… Read more »