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Camp Freedom

WE TEACH KIDS HOW TO FARM

" Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love and send them forth in freedom " Rudolf Steiner

“ It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass

Camp Freedom NY is a unique Camp that empowers Kids and Adults alike to grow and develop as they discover new skills and interests. It strives to create a safe, experience-rich environment that will lead to incredible adventures and endless memories.
The initiative at Camp Freedom is to teach children the importance of health with a hands on experience utilizing agri-education and bring urban and suburban kids to the farm to have a hands on learning rich environment.
Education at Camp Freedom will teach health literacy and positively influence healthy behavior while re-establishing good eating habits in children. We don't just teach kids... we make them better kids.

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MISSION

MISSION: We Develop Strong Kids through Agri-Education
At our one-of-a-kind Training Center and Historic Farm in Upstate NY your children and family will have an experience like no other in self-reliance: We foster independent children and strong families through encouraging hands-on experience, interaction and responsibility. We have developed a modern agrarian experience which is open to the community for education year round. Our Farm and Training Center focuses on engaging children and families to Farm and preserve Nature.
We provide a dynamic learning environment with workshops, seminars and a private Day-Camp where we teach How to grow herbs, flowers, fruit and vegetables, crops;
How to raise Poultry for eggs and manage other farm animals: How to maintain a Safe physical environment in all settings and How to manage Water and Land; Farm,
Orchard, Fields and Woodlands. We also teach Woodsman skills.
We are a Team of highly experienced Instructors with an exciting new model for experiential education for individuals, families, groups and enterprises.
We offer a private rural setting in which we offer beginner to advanced instruction.
This is the first of its kind experiential teaching farm in New York: our focus is to empower children and parents through involvement, wisdom and exposure to self-sustaining living and competent self-reliance.
Welcome to the Farm!
Founder: Tennille Richards
@Holley, NY

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CSA For Kids By Kids

Community-supported agriculture (CSA model) or cropsharing is a system that connects the producer and consumers within the food system more closely by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms.
However, at Camp Freedom we are breaking new grounds and making new trends.
"CSA By Kids For Kids" It's the same organic CSA as you've always known but now, for kids by kids.
This innovative way will help kids feel like part of the farming community at large and provide a unique new outlook on organic CSA.
Only... at Camp Freedom.

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Staff Members

Tennille Richards, BKin MScA

Owner of Quince & Pine Farm, Founder Camp Freedom
Born and educated in Canada, Tennille (pronounced ‘Ten-neel’) is a mother of four
children (ages 13-23 y.o) and is a Licensed Specialist in non-pharmaceutical
intervention for pain, inflammation and fertility; Trained in Biomechanics, Physiology,
Holistic Nutrition and holding a 4 year Master of Science degree in Chinese Medicine
and Acupuncture Tennille is an expert in her field. She was personally selected to work
for 4 years with the Defensive Captain (and Pro-Bowler) of the Buffalo Bills, she has a
Private practice in Pittsford, NY where she has over 13,000 patients.
In 2017 Tennille pursued her dream of owning a Historic Farm in Upstate NY; She
bought a 170 year old Homestead property in Holley, which she has rehabilitated with
love into a productive Orchard, a vegetable farm complete with cherry and mulberry
trees plus berry and pumpkin patches ~ 3 fields are currently in development!
She is a 10 consecutive-year selected Lecturer at the College at Brockport and is
published in local health newspapers; she is currently completing a her first book.
Her passion is Organic Nutrition, Kids, and Camping - as a teen she trained in
Dressage (Equestrian) and ran Camps for the YMCA in both Sailing and Environmental
studies, she has completed Survival training in Northern Canada and the High-Desert
(Mexico)
During the Pandemic she realized her dream was not just to become proficient in
Organic farming (plants and animals) but to teach it and share it with others, especially
children.
She values children, education and experiential learning above all else.