More About Spence's Educational Farm in Chapel Hill, NC

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The Vision
Spence’s Community Educational Farm embraces a vision of a world where families, communities and villages are connected to each other, Nature and their food sources. Within each bio-region is a series of Community Owned Educational Farms networked together with each other, local farms and their surrounding communities. COE Farms are community gathering places providing space for community events, rituals, recreation, education, apprenticeships, retreats, and locally grown food distribution centers. This vision includes a culture based on partnership and diversity where all life is valued, inner wisdom is honored and relationships to each other and to the earth are cultivated and take priority.

Spence's Farm
6407 Mill House Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
phone: (919) 968-8581
fax: (919) 968-7618
email: spencesfarm@aol.com

Spence's Farm
accepts NC Plenty

Spence's Community Education Farm
As a community we provide quality experiences for children
and young adults in a beautiful and natural setting.

Welcome!
Spence's Community Educational Farm is a model of an old family farm, supported by its local community. We provide year-round programs for schools, families and children. Our themes revolve around partnership with nature!

Our Mission
Spence's Farm is a 204 year old family farm transformed into a versatile teaching environment with a program built around life on a working farm. Our low mentor/camper ratio allows each child personal attention.

Our primary goal is to empower greatness in children and our experiential programs are designed to increase each child's personal knowledge. Our camp is distinguished by its attention to personal growth.

Spence's Farm Philosophy

Mentoring: Once family, friends and neighbors took an active responsibility as Mentors in raising children. As trusted guides and wise teachers, their vital relationship helped young adults become positive contributors in the larger community. We have created this environment for your family to experience those values.

We also developed and use the CRAFTS of Partnership, which we use in how we teach our programs:

COMMUNICATION
RESPECT
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
FRIENDSHIP
TRUST
SETTING GOOD BOUNDARIES

Each day we begin with a discussion of one of our daily themes: partnership, goal setting, communication, problem solving and personal responsibility. Awareness of these themes will empower your child throughout life. At the end of each day we review the topic and have an important acknowledgment session. We encourage everyone to share fellow campers' positive behaviors, and accomplishments, as well as their own.

Staff: Each program has one or more adult/mentor leaders, persons who, because of their accumulated life experiences, skills and knowledge, we consider to be positive role models. Our mentors may be assisted by one or more young people enrolled in our Junior Mentor Training Program.

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For more information, feel free to call us at 968.8581 or email us.