Top 12 Reasons to Come to a Green River Preserve Road Show Event

 

12. Pizza is typically served because it is Ruby’s favorite food.

11. You may find your photo from the event on the GRP Facebook page and your friends will think you are a rockstar (You’ve been wanting a new profile photo anyway!).

10. You are curious about what happened to those seeds you planted at the farm over the summer.

9. Because, let’s be real, no matter how much you wear your GRP sweatshirt, hat, shorts, and tube socks, you are still feeling campsick. 

8. You recently read Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods and refuse to let your children/siblings/friends/parents only play inside “where all the electrical outlets are.”

7. You heard that GRP has a mountain biking program and a two-week theater camp this year and want to know more.

6. Missy often provides a delicious baked treat like the famous caramel cake or homemade cookies.

5. You want to ask questions to current campers and their families about their experience at camp. If you are a return camper, you want to bring your school friends so they can finally understand why you always talk about GRP.

4. The Grand Slam bear may make a special guest appearance. AND the bear is still unnamed! Nominations are being accepted now so we can open the official voting over the summer.

3. You want to learn (or remember) what it is like to be surrounded by people who uphold the Woodcraft Laws.

2. The new trailer for camp really made you miss camp. Or if you are new to GRP, it made you want to find out more about GRP.

1. Sandy is determined this is the summer you will learn fly fishing.

 

Visit http://www.greenriverpreserve.org/grp-road-show/ to find out when the GRP team will be near you.

Green River Preserve Farm Update

Fresh beans on the salad bar

by Charlotte Law, GRP Farm Intern

Well, it’s that time of year at last! The hot mornings and rainy afternoons have been a blessing for the GRP farm as all of the produce is beginning to ripen and weigh down the vines. It has been a slow start to the season as far as production, but it is all worth it now as the food starts to pour into the dining hall after being harvested by campers on their farm mentor hikes. Tomatoes, multicolored squash, beans, potatoes, basil, carrots, and radishes are just a few of the delicious veggies being added to the salad bar and dining hall options. 

Session 3 campers that signed up for the farm GLP took part in harvesting over fourteen pounds of food and taking it all back to the lodge kitchen to prepare homemade pizza including mozzarella made from scratch. They also baked a strawberry cobbler with farm grown berries.  It was not only an extremely fresh and delicious meal, but also rewarding after a long morning of harvesting in the field. Potatoes just taste better when you have to dig your hands deep into the soil to reveal the tasty prize within!

It has been a blast exploring the farm and seeing the daily changes with the campers from session 3. I am really looking forward to the next group of campers to see the farm at its peak during session 4. Campers and parents are more than welcome to stop by on their way into camp for check-in on Sunday and explore the fields, meet the goats, and possibly even try a fresh bean right off the vine!

GRP Farm Update

Just got an update from Steve who manages the farm with his wife Anne who, by the way, just had a baby last month. (They’re all doing fine… tired, but fine.)

The maze is going great. The corn, spaghetti squash, beets and carrots are getting close to harvest. The campers have particularly enjoyed the sugar snap peas, the mini squash and the bush beans. Pumpkins are coming along well.

The biggest hit with the campers is collecting potato beetles for the chickens. Since many had heard of the potato famine in Ireland this made for a good opportunity for discussion.

Also, by the next campout the potatoes and onions at Hemlock Field might be ready for cooking over a campfire. (How cool is that!?!).

irie in the sunflower maze