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Come dig in the dirt and explore the world of backyard gardening with us! Plant seeds, design cool gardens, explore our grow dome. Take home plants for your own backyard garden.

From slugs to earthworms to microscopic bugs! Learn what lives beneath the flowers and plants to help them grow. Learn to identify bugs, make a home for them in compost, and create costumes of your favorite tiny friend.

Come spend a week exploring ways to attract wildlife to your backyard. Practice your naturalist skills by identifying caterpillars, butterflies , moths and birds. Find out what flowers and plants they like to eat. Design and plant a garden made for birds and butterflies. Make birdhouses to take home to your own garden.

Spend this exciting week making spiral and sun shaped gardens. Make puppets, paintings, and potpourri from plants that you can grow in your own backyard and recycled materials. Create your own garden art to take home for the holiday!

Come be inspired by nature! Learn how nature grows food in the desert, how to gather energy like a leaf and much more! Explore ways we can use what nature knows in our own lives.

Come for the first time or come back to harvest tasty treats from the garden. Learn how to make nutritious snacks, explore edible flowers, and strange desert roots. We will explore the harvest ceremonies of different cultures and even create our own.

EcoVersity is Santa Fe’s premier land-based learning center for sustainability with dozens of professors and educators on staff. EcoVersity fosters an unmatched learning environment where sustainability is a habit of heart. The EcoVersity Campus is located just 2 miles from the plaza.  The land comprises 13 acres next to the old Hispanic Village of Agua Fria. We have several classrooms, a library and a new grow dome. 

Earth Care International teaches young people life skills for the 21^st Century.  ECI, as a unique youth education organization, provides service-learning programs based on sustainable solutions that help us create an ecologically and socially healthier world.

Camp Leaders

	Christina Dollhausen holds a B.S in Ecology and has gardened throughout North and Central America. She has over 8 years of experience working with youth in environmental education. She is a former Peace Corp Volunteer and is fluent in Spanish.
	Taylor Selby is the Executive Director of Earth Care International and has a Bachelors of Arts from Fort Lewis, Colorado. He is an avid lover of the outdoors and a Poet. Taylor has studied permaculture and communities in Australia.

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