Category: Reminiscences from Apprentices

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

It was a difficult year for me, (1987) personally; I think I went to a therapist briefly for the first time that year. I had been living in the mid-peninsula… Read more »

I think I was there 72-73, or was it 71-72? Campers there were: Freddie and Eddie, Douglas, Krissy, Michael Stusser, Pancho, Charlie Stern, Susannah, You, Jimmy, Leifin was about 2,… Read more »

Let’s see— I moved into the redwood circle in June or July 1973 and stayed until I moved to Vancouver Island that fall. Then my mom died the following April… Read more »

It was the fall of 1984 when I discovered Camp Joy.  I remember entering the garden for the first time and sensing something different and unique, something my turbulent, 23 year… Read more »

hi dear camp joy, I lived in Boulder Creek from 1971 to 1974 and took Bio-dynamic French Intensive gardening classes at Camp Joy during those years with Beth and Jim… Read more »

In From the Garden What Your Basket Bears week 6: June 30 & July 3, 2001 One day on his morning walk, the little prince came upon his bush, her… Read more »