HALLOCKVILLE FARM SUMMER CAMP

Connecting children to the land, the community, and their creative spirits

Hallockville Museum Farm offers a unique day camp experience for ages 5-12 unlike anything else on the East End. Hallockville’s inspirational setting will surround campers with 250 years of agricultural history! 

Daily activities at Hallockville’s Farm Camp include circle time interactions with farm animals including cows, sheep, and chickens, farm chores, feeding animals, and themed projects and activities.

Rate: $450/week 

Scholarships and discounts available. 

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
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Our Commitment to the Community

Hallockville Museum Farm is a 501 (c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving the educational needs of the community. We will be offering a limited number of camp scholarships to children from deserving local families and invite community members to help make the camp even more special.

Please consider making a charitable contribution that will enable deserving children to have a care-free experience at Hallockville’s Farm Camp. No gift is too small and all are appreciated. To donate, visit hallockville.org/support.

For more information about camp or scholarship opportunities, contact the Hallockville office at 631-298-5292 or email [email protected].

Farm Camp Program

Ages 5-12
9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Week 1: Celebrate on The Farm → June 30 - July 3

Experience how family farmers long ago celebrated the beginning of summer, good harvests and Independence Day. The week is filled with crafting, hiking to the beach, harvesting and celebrating! Campers will create a Farm to Table experience for themselves: harvesting potatoes to make their own potato chips, harvesting asparagus to cook up, cutting their own herbs to flavor their food, cutting and arranging their own bouquets to decorate their table and shucking their own oysters from guest local oyster farmer! Campers will even set up a mini farm stand with local products for their families to peruse for their own July 4th celebrations.

Week 2: Games and Sports on the Farm → July 7 - July 11

Step back to a time without electronic distractions and experience what it was like to live and play on a farm. After the Campers put in some work in the gardens and do their animal chores, they’ll get to enjoy fun colonial indoor and outdoor games, learn new soccer skills from a visiting soccer coach, hike to the beach to collect items for their homemade dolls, and get wet with fun water games! They will learn about getting around on the farm before tractors and trucks, from our favorite guest horse.

Week 3: Exploring Nature Around Us → July 14 - July 18

Campers will explore the 500 acres of fields and woods surrounding Hallockville and discover the North Fork’s flora and fauna.  Hiking to the beach to explore with marine and bird experts, crafting with treasures from their hikes, raising caterpillars, and harvesting from our gardens will fill their days with discovery and creativity.  

Week 4: Trades and Their Tools → July 21 - July 25

Farm life requires working with a variety of tools and implements to ‘get the job done’. With the guidance of blacksmiths, woodworkers and weavers campers will engage and hone their hands-on skills and creativity in working with wood, fiber, and more.  Our guest tradespeople, visits to our antique machinery and authentic cobbler shop exhibits and grinding feed for our resident animals will all inspire campers to learn to work with their hands and ‘get the job done’. To end the week, campers will take a ride around the farm on a more modern machine, a tractor pulled wagon! 

Week 5: It‘s A Bug’s World → July 28 - August 1

The Natural World is an intertwined web of relationships and campers will learn the importance of creatures that pollinate much of the food we need to survive. Guest beekeeper and master gardeners will share their passion with campers and give a close up look at fascinating and important insects. Nature walks through the farm and to the beach, close up observations of our own caterpillars and tastes of what pollinators so graciously provide for us will fill the campers’ week with discovery and sweetness!

Week 6: History Tells A Tale → August 4 - August 8

The history of the North Fork is abundant with stories from cultures including Native Americans, European settlers, and more recent immigrants from many other parts of the world. Campers tour our 1700s Homestead with a local historian, bake cookies in the authentic Homestead kitchen on the wood stove, hike where there was once a battle, visit a nearby dairy farm to experience farming traditions from long ago, collect rocks at the beach from thousands of years ago with a local geologist and plant the 3 sisters the way Natives taught the settlers. 

Week 7: Farmy Homes → August 11- August 15

Step back to a time without electronic distractions and experience life as it was inside the Homestead. Campers harvest from the kitchen garden to make their own pizzas with guidance from a local chef, basket weave with guidance from a local weaver, compare a 1950s home to their own, experience laundry chores from centuries ago, and observe our quilt collection to inspire their own design.  Campers will feel right at home.