Farm to Camp

Farm to Camp is our largest youth education program. This camp is in partnership with City of Raleigh summer camps and takes places at the Marsh Creek Park Community Center. This programming is made possible by the generous support of TELUS.

Camp Theme: Gardening and Seed Saving. We know that farming and gardening is a key to improving connectivity among and across generations, cultures, and species. Through these spaces we learn skills valuable to personal independence and collective resilience. By saving and sharing seeds we carry these important relationships with and beyond ourselves while creating space for a more regional food culture.

Campers will collectively tend to a garden with the intention of exploring their relationship with natural communities, seed saving, and the histories of indigenous and culturally important foods. The camp will be hosted at our Marsh Creek Park site for participants enrolled in the City of Raleigh's summer programs.

In the spring of 2025, Raleigh City Farm expanded the farm's footprint to include two adjacent lots. This expansion allowed us to grow our education and engagement programs within the newly developed Murphy's Naturals Teaching Garden that includes an outdoor classroom. The program was renamed to simply "Farm Camp."

With continued TELUS support, in summer 2026 we launched our Farm to Camp program at Marsh Creek Park in partnership with the City of Raleigh. We hosted 8 weeks of hands-on sessions where campers collectively tended a raised-bed teaching garden and participated in seed saving.