Wild Earth now offers an Equitable Pricing Calculator that uses a sliding scale model.
This will provide the opportunity for families to determine what they can afford to pay, based on their family's unique financial situation.
It also provides the opportunity for families who can afford it, to make an additional contribution to help offset the cost of tuition for families in need.
Before registration, please calculate your tier with the Equitable Pricing Calculator.
Still need additional aid?Young men and masculine-identifying youth ages 9 – 14
*Please review updated locations below to know where programs are taking place
9 Saturdays, 1 *extended day program (in the Spring)
Starting in September, ending in June.
Hazardous Weather Make-Up Days:
Saturdays: Rolling drop-off time from 9-9:30am – and pickup from 3-3:30pm
May 10th, 2025 extended day program:drop-off time from 9-9:30am – and evening pickup from 9-9:30pm
$1,300 for 24-25 Program. Sibling discount and payment plans available. Please indicate financial aid needs when you register, we encourage families to apply for any amount of aid needed.
Due to the unusual rattlesnake activity and behavior we have observed at our land in Kerhonkson, we will be taking a break from regular programming there when snakes are active as we create an assessment process to inform our next steps.
Drop us an email or give us a call and we'll be happy to answer your questions.
hello@wildearth.org
(845) 256-9830
Why Youth Year-Round Programs are Gender-Based
We have polled our campers and staff and have learned that during this formative time being with a group of any gender(s), masc, or femme, identifying peers is what supports them most in feeling safe, seen and celebrated.
Though these groups have different names the curriculum arcs are similar throughout. We trust all campers and families to choose the group that most supports their identity and needs.
Artemis – for femme identifying youth, open to all
Atlatl – for masc identifying youth, open to all
Pronounced “aht-lat,” Atlatl provides an energetic, social and creative time for emerging adolescent youth. Each month the child will be met with opportunities to strengthen their bodies, learn and develop skills and have new and fun experiences with young adult mentors, mature men and other young men and masculine-identifying youth their age.
Through wilderness skills and group challenges, youth develop empowered self-reliance as well as the ability to serve as part of a team. Nature serves as a powerful teacher of bravery, interconnected relationship, inner-resilience, and inspiration. Tracking, stalking, friction fire, tool-making, bird language, shelter-building, story, song, and more are tools to create caring and awake young adults.
At Atlatl we mix guided play-based learning with structured skill-building activities to help youth develop into capable, empowered, young men, supported by their connections to nature, self, peers and mentors.
Our activities include a wide variety of team-building games, which require young men and masculine-identifying youth to flex their decision-making muscles, voice their ideas, and cultivate a plethora of leadership capacities, including awareness and sensory acuteness, self-care and care of others, quiet mind and patience, cooperation, empathy and embracing differences, puzzle solving, detecting patterns and tracking changes, and healthy assertiveness.
Atlatl will meet one Saturday per month beginning in the fall with an extended day program in the spring.
We will be sharpening our wilderness skills and deepening our connection to nature through guided activities such as:
The name Atlatl (aht-lat) comes from the Aztec language meaning extended arm. Though Cortez and his men called them estólica (spear-throwers) and feared them for their ability to puncture their chain mail and cotton armor.
The oldest version of the Atlatl tool was used over 30,000 years ago to hunt mammoths, and is still a used today by the First Nations people of Australia and New Guinea. Other modern day uses of the Atlatl include spear throwing for sport, with awards for both distance and accuracy. The farthest recorded throw was around 850 feet.
Is your teen interested in becoming a Counselor in Training at Summer Camp? Joining as a participant will fulfill volunteer time required to apply as summer camp CIT, since CIT practice time will be built in throughout the program.
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