Spring Break Camp announced! Oceans and Rivers

kids making frog life cycle art

Oceans and Rivers Camp:

Join us at the Alvord Farm March 26th- 30th as we explore the wonderful world of water and aquatic species! We’ll learn about shells, sand, fish, whales, frogs, and tons more…Each day play games, hear a story and make an art project to take home. You bring your lunch and a water bottle and clothes to get messy in. Our camp will be run by our coordinator Karen Rainsong, and other counselors will include Sahra Bakalis and Anna Alkin (See staff page.)

Some of our activities: make a moving frog life cycle, paint a gigantic underwater scene cooperatively, make ocean puppets and put on a puppet show, watercolor painting, rubber fish printing, ocean bingo for prizes, scavenger hunts, sand painting and lots more!

Ages: 6-9 years
Dates: March 26th- 30th
Cost: $185 per child
Time: 9am to 1:00pm
Deposit: $20.00 deposit required to hold your space in camp (non-refundable)
To Sign Up: Call Karen at (541) 968-1986

Earn credit for your camp fees! Volunteers needed for project

If you are interested in helping up transform some old desks for our schoolhouse, please get in touch with me. Sometime in the next month or so I will be taking 8 old school desks that I bought and cleaning, sanding, and refinishing them. I’d like to remove some of the rust off the feet too. I could use some helpers. Earn credit toward your child’s summer camp fees! I’ll give you $15 an hour credit toward camper’s fees. The desks are in my home garage now. You don’t need any experience, just be able to do a little physical work. Call Karen at 541 968-1986 to sign up!

Knitting Day looks like low turn out

Since I didn’t get much of a response on knitting day, I’m not going to hold it this year, and we can just hope for more response next time. I will be giving a tour of the farm to interested potential volunteers on Sunday at 1 pm, so if you want to meet with me to discuss how you can help, please let me know by calling 541 968-1986. Thanks! Karen

Wintertime at the Farm

Hi everyone! With winter upon us, we are battening down the hatches at the farm. The hay is piled high in the barn and the heat lamps are on all the time for the bunnies and ducks. The roof has been fixed and now the tasks fall more to storm clean-up! When the wind blows we sometimes get downed tree limbs so those have to be cleaned up.

We hope you will join us on December 10th for a fun and cozy Fiber arts playshop- the only one we have for adults! Of course, older kids are welcome with a project to do. Bring your knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, or whatever fiber arts project you are working on and sway stories and tips as we work around the wood stove. Hot drinks provided. Call Karen to pre-register and see our events page for more info. 541 968-1986.

thanks and stay warm!

Cancelled Kalapuya Day

Hi All,
Sorry to say we had to cancel Kalapuya Day this Sat due to bad weather expected. Willa says the driveway could get icy and she is not sure it would be so safe to have a group. We are planning to reschedule for this Spring. Please do sign up for our knitting day which is coming up on December 10th! That will be a fun day to come out and bring your knitting, crocheting, or fiber arts project and chat with other adults over cider or tea. Call Karen to pre-register; 541 968-1986. Thanks!

Upcoming Playshop “Kalapuya Day” in November

Kalapuya Day, Saturday Nov. 19th, 10:00am- 12:30pm: Come out and join our friends from Whole Earth Nature School as they teach us all about the First people who lived on this land. How did the Kalapuya people hunt and prepare food? What kinds of structures did they live in? What kinds of stories did they tell? How did they make fire and tools? We will get to try lots of hands-on things like atlatl throwing, archery, put together an imaginary pit oven, and get our faces painted with red ocher. If there’s time we may also hear a native story from the Northern Oregon area. Ages 6 and up with an adult. Pre-registration is required, call Karen at 541 968-1986. Bring a signed liability waiver, (coming soon to this site), and a sack lunch. Cost: $3-5 sliding scale per child. Thanks!

Hello World! A new blog is born…

Welcome to the Alvord Farm and Museum blog. We are located in Eugene, Oregon and have family programming year round. Our events are sliding scale (except summer camp) and are by an appointment or signup basis only. Thanks for visiting the site and we will have more content soon!- Karen