Come explore and enjoy the magic of our plant friends who surround us everyday in Vermont! Just like the plants, we will set our feet onto the earth to grow our roots, spread our leaves to play in the sun, and hold our seeds of knowledge for future growth! We have a chance to discover how plants each have their unique set of characteristics, medical properties, and other uses. We will see how plants can be used for crafts, decoration, food, and medicine. There is so much to learn from the environment around us. Bring your curiosity and playfulness!
Explore and learn about the plant world at Willowell and make new friends through fun games, guided activities and free time
Identify common local plants (such as dandelion, plantain, mugwort, motherwort, burdock, many flowers and more)
Learn how these plants have been used traditionally and how we can use them today
Make special tasty sun teas
Fashion flower and plant crowns, and other fancy adornments
Create homes for fairies
Discuss and consider what plants are most popular in our daily diets and how to include more
Gather in circle every day for sharing and listening
Have fun!
Camp TIMES
July 25 - 29
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
AGES
7 - 11
LOCATION
Stoney Meadow Lane
Monkton, VT 05443
camp size
15
cost
$200
APPLICATION PROCESS
Complete the 2022 Willowell Summer Camp Registration Form Online:
PAYMENT
I. Make checks payable to the Willowell Foundation, and mail to PO Box 314 Bristol, VT 05443.
II. Pay through PayPal. Please enter camper’s full name and the name of camp they plan to attend in the description. Please note: due to costly surcharges we require a $10 processing fee FOR ALL paypal payments. Please add $10 to each paypal transaction.
Applications and full tuition are due one month before the camp start date.
To reserve a space now, please fill out the online application and mail your non-refundable $50 deposit. Deposit counts towards full tuition.
instructors
Yulia Klimento
Yulia is trained as a conservation ecologist from McGill University with a BSc. in Biodiversity Conservation; she has lived & worked across various continents, exploring native biodiversity and local ecosystems. Her work has focused on pollinators & seed dispersers, coral reef restoration, micropastic pollution in freshwater environments, regenerative local food systems, decolonization & food sovereignty. It has become her greatest passion to help conserve the Earth we call home through love & reverence. She has found deep purpose in working with young humans to become resilient & eco-literate in these changing times and is thrilled to teach at Willowell with New Roots & Wren's Nest. She has previously worked with kindergarteners to young adults to explore the infinite curiosities embedded in natural environments and how to become caring stewards. Yulia emphasizes the importance of an experiential learning environment for kiddos to orient themselves within the web of life. She functions through lenses of permaculture, systems theory, and deep ecology. Her goal is to work on blossoming our creativity & imagination to collectively reimagine how we can move forward into a future of restoration in an era of climate change!
Meghan Rigali
Meghan Rigali graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003 with a Bachelor in Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Studies; teaching certificate from Upper Valley Educators Institute; licensed art educator K-12 in Vermont; Wilderness EMT from SOLO, NH; Pursuing MA in Depth Psychology & Creativity from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Rigali is currently a working artist and interdisciplinary educator with focus on the fine arts, metals and outdoors in Vermont’s middle-high schools, nonprofits and colleges. Rigali danced in studios and intensives from San Francisco to New York, including Dartmouth College where she performed in Cistern: An Uncommon Ritual (2007). Work as a wilderness therapy guide with at-risk youth in Vermont transformed Rigali’s relationship to the Natural world. She completed her national service in Vermont Housing & Conservation Board AmeriCorps repairing and weatherizing low income homes with teams of volunteers in 2013. Rigali has exhibited art throughout the United States and Ethiopia.
As an artist-educator, Rigali’s work is informed by practices in Tibetan Buddhism, Eco-psychology and contemporary wilderness rites in addition to being a certified yoga teacher. Meghan Rigali is Director of The Willowell Foundation’s Gordon Sculpture Park and New Roots Project in addition to an instructor in summer camps offering original curriculum in the interdisciplinary arts, wilderness survival & medicine for youth, wildcraft, games, mind-body cultivation and holding council around the fire.