Base Camp

08/28/2026

A Friday morning ride through the forest and a stop to ponder the size of these trees! WOW!

08/28/2026

08/27/2026

08/26/2026

Today’s farm trip was about so much more than picking produce. 🌻🍓🥔

Before our visit, the kids talked with their families about what they needed or wanted from the farm and came prepared with their own little produce orders. Once we arrived, they became the shoppers.

They searched the fields for the items on their lists, picked strawberries, dug potatoes straight from the earth, carried their own bags, kept track of what they were bringing home, and made choices along the way.

It looks like a morning of strawberries, dirt and sunshine—but there is so much learning tucked inside. ❤️

🍓 Responsibility — remembering what their family asked them to bring home
🥔 Early math — counting quantities and thinking about money and budgets
🌱 Food literacy — seeing where food actually comes from and how it grows
🛍️ Independence — carrying their own bags, finding items and making decisions
💬 Communication — asking questions and interacting with the people who grow our food
🤝 Community connection — participating in a real place that helps feed local families
💪 Confidence — discovering that even our littlest people can do meaningful, helpful work

And, of course, there’s the very important job of quality control: eating a strawberry (or several) right there in the field. 🍓

This is what learning looks like at Base Camp—real experiences, real responsibilities, dirty hands, full bellies, and some very proud little grocery shoppers heading home with produce for their families.

08/25/2026

Some kids need a nap mat. Some kids need a hammock in the pines. 🌲

Around here, rest time looks a little different. Fresh air, swinging feet, sunshine through the trees, and apparently MAXimum relaxation achieved. 💛

Childhood belongs outside.

08/24/2026

It was a basecamp crew party lap day on Bachelor yesterday! We’re so lucky to be able to witness these kids follow their passions at such an early age! Way to go boys!

08/24/2026

This is us.

08/21/2026

Just your average preschool commute. 😂🚲

Helmets on. Bikes in hand. Tiny humans moving through the world like they have places to BE.

There are easier ways to get a group of little kids from point A to point B…but “easy” isn’t really the point.

Every ride is practice in independence, responsibility, road safety, perseverance, problem solving and keeping track of yourself as part of a group.

They may be little, but we don’t underestimate what they’re capable of. 🌲🚲

08/17/2026

Throwing it way back to this day in 2023! Buddies since the very beginning. 💙👶👶 Cannot believe we are going into their last full year of adventures before kindergarten 😢

08/16/2026

Another little Base Camp rider showing his stuff this weekend. Nice job, Arlo! ❤️👍