Folk Farm School

Alternative In Person School

Elk Run Farm

Due to the critical need in communities for holistic, land based, nurturing outdoor education, that especially encourages the inherent individuality, beauty and the irreplaceable experience of childhood in the natural world, we offer Folk Farm School: an emergent, child-led education community that supports children 2.5-14 years old. Folk Farm School is a developmentally appropriate education system inspired by Forest Schools adapted to a farm ecosystem to inspire connection to land, food, culture and social systems. Folk Farm operates as an outdoor based education program that organizes emergent learning into weekly single-skill camps. We choose a weekly skill as a focus based on what is alive in the education community and plan our curriculum, exploration, and investigation around that topic. Weekly single skills are responsive to student interest, support the development of life skills, and connected to the rhythms of the Earth.

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