Final Post: Basecamp and Onwards

Our last two weeks at basecamp have gone by in a flash. As soon as we arrived home, we sprung into action unpacking and setting up camp for our stay. Our camp was tucked into a little nook in the woods across a brook. The first week at basecamp was spent doing our Independent Student Projects. We were all paired up to work on different projects around the farm for the week to delve deeper into a thing that we care about.

Independent Student Projects

Tanner and Sam	Building a solar dehydrator for the Kroka farm barn
Adam and Julian	Timber framing a porch at Rogers Road
Kendal and Savannah	Program teaching assistants at Kroka
Finn and Sebi	Designing and building a composting system for Perkins Elementary School
Claudia and Caleb	Trail work and mapping
Bea and Rory	Farming at Kroka
Hailey	Apprenticing at Orchard Hill Bakery

            We finished our project on Saturday and presented to the rest of the group on our learning.

            The last week has been filled with last academics, working on our performance, and helping out on the farm. Though our final week is coming to a close, it has hardly registered that we are going home. As we begin to say our farewells to this community that has become our family, we see what our teachers have been teaching us all along: the importance of our community.

We will always have this experience in our hearts and will carry what we have learned throughout our lives. It is time for us to go out into the world and share our story.