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Camp Joy Featured in the Winter 2022 Issue of Edible Monterey
“Celebrating 50 years of edible education at Camp Joy” Written by Emily BeggsPhotography by Doriana Hammond Just off Highway 9 in the San Lorenzo Valley lies Camp Joy Gardens— a… Read more »
Farm Updates October 2022
Greetings friends and supporters of Camp Joy. We miss you! We realize we’ve been out of touch, seems we have had our heads down working away in our corner of this wild world. Quietly… Read more »
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 »
October 2020 News from the Farm
Greetings to our dear community, what a wild world we are all living in now! We are thinking of you all, and wondering how each of you is holding up in these… 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 »
Honey Bees
One of the things people know Camp Joy for is the honey. I’ve been keeping honey bees for many years and this one so far is extraordinary – largely because… Read more »
Dogs (and Cats)
As a boy I had a springer spaniel- cocker spaniel mutt from the pound. I called him Freckles. We hiked everywhere together near Mill Valley where I lived. We rarely… Read more »
The Year in Reverie
The Wreath Sale and Harvest Open House is a week away. A cycle on our small farm is nearly over – in many ways it is a completion and a… Read more »