Visit our Garden Blog

If you or your group are visiting Camp Stevens, or would like to visit Camp Stevens, please inquire about opportunities such as garden tours, compost seminars, volunteer workshops, and more, available to you in the Camp Stevens garden.

About the Gardens:

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves"
-Gandhi

Since 2000, Camp Stevens Organic Garden has grown from a small kitchen garden into two, year-round, productive sites with about 2 acres under cultivation, providing spaces for reflection, inspiration and learning as well as physical nourishment for our guests, campers, and resident staff.

Our kitchen garden continues to produce fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers for our chef right out the backdoor of the camp kitchen. A few steps away in our orchard, apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, pluots, persimmons, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, asparagus and much more are cycling through their various, seasonal stages and producing an abundance of healthy snacks for children and guests; as well as year-round habitat for a huge variety of micro-organisms, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals.

In 2007, on a sunny, warm, south-facing slope to the north of our main garden and camp center, we broke ground on a new one-acre site. The terraced fields of this warm garden provide excellent growing conditions for the year-round production of seasonal vegetables, which are alley cropped between perennial stands of grapes, apricots, figs, lavender, insectary plants, dynamic accumulator plants, and native/habitat plants.