Community Stories
“I remember going out and digging wild ginger and making ginger cookies with the kids . . . We would play this game called Wolves and Rabbits where the kids would make arrows or draw arrows, make them out of sticks, and the rabbits would hide behind a bush or something and we would go . . . It was a good way of getting kids to wander longer distances there. ”
“One summer—I think probably my first summer—there was a group that did Prairie and Wood, which was a little natural history camp for kids. So I did Prairie and Wood one summer . . . [and] interacting that way I met other Carleton students I didn’t know.”
“This summer, one of the summers I spent in Northfield, kind of between my junior and senior years, I ran the Prairie and Wood Day Camp, which operated out of the Arb Office. And that was for elementary school aged kids in Northfield as a six-week long summer camp that I ran that in that summer. So it was a lot of this outdoor-learning and nature exploration for school kids.”
“[Living in Farm House] was great . . . We made our own bread every week. We made our own yogurt. In the spring, we would start a garden, and then people that stayed over during the summer for the Prairie and Wood program would keep the garden going and stuff. And it was fun.”
Rachel Bynum ‘95 with a potato print shirt made at her Prairie and Wood Summer Camp cohort in 1994