Camp Garden Gnome
Engage your kids' senses on an organic vegetable farm for a full week of clay and farming activities!
Each morning will consist of one farming lesson and one pottery lesson taught by Farmer Julia.
Ages 6-12
M-F: June 9-13, 2025
9am-12pm
$150
M-F: June30-July 4, 2025
9am-12pm
$150
Monday
Farming Activities:
Where do our fruits and veggies come from?
Vegetable of the Day: Kale
Clay Project:
Pinch Pot Veggies
Tuesday
Farm Activities:
Caring for our Soil
Vegetable of the Day: Kohlrabi
Clay Project:
Soft Slab Hands
Thursday
Farm Activities:
Harvesting
Vegetable of the Day: Lettuce
Clay Project:
Mushroom Jars
Friday
Farming Activities:
Growing Gardens and Community
Vegetable of the Day: Microgreens
Clay Project:
Coil Planter
Farmer Julia
With a degree in K-9 education Farmer Julia has been teaching Art and Ceramics for over 15 years. She has taught ceramics at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and as adjunct at Western Michigan University. She is excited to bring together her passions of teaching, local food, and ceramic arts to KZOO kids this growing season!
Farmer Ben
With a degree in Sustainable Agriculture from Sterling College, Farmer Ben has been farming for over 15 years.
In 2018 Ben and Julia founded Tiny Giant Farm in Kalamazoo, MI.
While not actively teaching during Gnome Camp, Farmer Brown will be continuing his daily work of "gnome-ing" about the farm tending to the vegetables.
Tiny Giant Farm
"Grow Better, Not Bigger"
Tiny Giant Farm was founded in 2018 on the belief that small, everyday actions can have a large, lasting impact.
We choose to farm small because it forces us to farm well, to farm sustainably, and to farm responsibly.
It allows us to pay attention to detail. To stay connected. To invest the best of ourselves in the small amount of land that we have to provide the best possible produce to you, our community.
We never use artificial chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides, not just because we don't 'believe' in them, but because we don't want them in our backyard, just like you don't want them in your food.
Staying small allows us to grow you better, fresher, more nutritious veggies, so that we can help grow a happier, healthier community here in Kalamazoo.
We are proud to be Certified Naturally Grown.
