Location
will be Goatlandia's Sebastopol sanctuary
Hours (Please note updated start time)
Each camp day will be from 8:45am until 2:30pm. On the final day, camp will end around 12pm, followed by a family group sanctuary tour. All camper families are invited!
Registration Fee
is $395 which includes snacks and lunches, a Goatlandia camp t-shirt, and a gift bag
Eligible Applicants
will be ages 6 - 12 years old
Class will be 30 students maximum
and two age groups: 6-9 and 10-12, with a goal of 15 spots per age group.
4 Scholarship spots available (UPDATE 5/15: We have filled all scholarship spots and are no longer accepting scholarship requests.)
Two per age group, 6-9 and 10-12. To keep our camp accessible to as many children as possible, we kindly ask that campers who had previously received a scholarship leave these new spots open for others.
Curriculum:
All campers will enjoy morning greeting time, lunch and end of day sessions together, and then split into groups for age-specific activities and projects.
In addition to outdoor education, campers will also enjoy various activities including a goat hike, kids yoga, and a plant-based ice cream taste test!
Campers will learn from expert guest speakers on specialized topics such as animal behavior and physiology, nutrition and healthy eating, environmental practices, compassion, and equity and inclusion.
A family group tour for all camp families will be on the last day of camp, along with free passes to join a weekend group tour.
Linda Blum has been teaching young children for close to 30 years now. Having launched her career as an infant/toddler specialist, Linda currently works mostly with children ranging from 2-7 years of age. Linda has her Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and is a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT). She also holds a AA Degree in Child Development. Linda works directly with students who have Special Abilities/Needs. She works in local schools to help support and implement academic and behavior support strategies for children. Linda also provides direct teacher training in the classroom and professional development programs for educators across the Bay Area on best inclusion practices. Linda is honored to be an advocate for children and parents in helping them navigate the world of special needs, accessing services and locating community resources.
Linda created Goatlandia’s Kids Camp curriculum at its inception, and she is very passionate about working with animals and educating young children on healthy food choices and compassionate thinking and living! A vegetarian since age 12, Linda has a special interest in health and nutrition, and is excited about sharing her love of animals with her students.
In her spare time, Linda enjoys dancing Salsa, Tango and Bachata, singing opera, snow and water skiing, and traveling. She is also fluent in Italian, lived in Italy for 2 years and is an Italian citizen. She loves speaking in Italian and teaching ASL (American Sign Language); and is currently learning to speak Spanish.
Joan, now retired, worked for over 30 years as a Gardener and Gardening Supervisor for the City and
County of San Francisco, at San Francisco General Hospital. Coinciding with the emergence of the
A.I.D.S. Epidemic, Joan and her staff created a place of quiet respite on the hospital grounds where small
groups of A.I.D.S. patients and their friends could sit together and talk surrounded by a beautiful garden.
We called it “The Comfort Garden”and would hold annual remembrances there for all the patients that
had passed the previous year.
During her time working at the hospital she also developed a raised bed food garden on campus and
initiated a food give away program for patients taking classes in Smoking Cessation, Diabetes Regulation,
Cancer Recovery and General Diet Nutrition. Along with volunteers, she would harvest, clean and bag up
veggies from the garden beds and deliver them to the weekly classes. Additionally, she then would
coordinate with The Wellness Center at the hospital to have chefs put on cooking demonstrations to show
the patients how to prepare simple meals from the vegetables they were given. This program blossomed
into an annual event, celebrated by the entire hospital called “Spring Fest” where patients, staff, family
and neighbors could learn about growing and eating healthy foods, which is a missing part of most health
care facilities.
For 40 years, Bob worked in Recycling and Waste collection. For 30 of those years in San Francisco, with
Golden Gate Disposal and Sunset Scavenger Company, which are predecessor companies of Recology,
Bob was responsible for managing all of the numerous residential and commercial recycling programs
operated by Recology in San Francisco. In 1999, Bob directed the consolidation of the recycling
programs, and merged them with a complete reorganization of San Francisco’s refuse collection system. Bob helped design, test, implement and managed San Francisco’s “Fantastic 3”, the three-color cart based collection program that is typically considered the pinnacle of waste collection in the SF Bay Area. The Fantastic 3, was the first collection program in the country to bring a comprehensive residential and commercial Food Waste Collection to a major city. It also provides simple, universal, and efficient refuse collection and recycling opportunities to small business as well as single and multi-family residences throughout the city.
Bob's also designed and implemented a Waste Diversion Audit Program. Based on individual waste
evaluations (Dumpster Diving), the program provides valuable information to building managers,
allowing them to modify what, when and how they dispose of their waste and recyclables. The program
also provides a protocol to assure compliance and marketability of the identified recyclable materials at
the customer’s locations as well as Recology facilities. Building managers, the City of San Francisco, and
Recology all benefit from this program through the maximization waste diversion compliance and
collection costs.