FAQs
If you discover that your camper left something at camp, please call our office within 2 weeks to claim your item. If found, we are happy to mail the missing item home to you. Unclaimed items will be donated to charity after 2 weeks. While we hope to reunite you with lost items, please understand that Farm Camp is not responsible for lost items. Labeling your camper’s clothes is a great help when claiming missing items. Thank you!
Our staff to camper ratio is 1:4.
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Yes, we are always staffed with at least one RN on site and will sometimes have two.
In all of our experience we have found that campers have the most well rounded experience when they tent with someone new. However, we understand that sometimes tenting with a friend can help calm any nervousness about the camp experience. If this is the case we do require a mutual request from both parents to pair friends together in a tent.
Please let us know if your camper has a friend who they are hoping to share a unit with. We arrange our units by age and grade, and as long as they are within the same grade we should be able to make it happen.
- 7:45 am: Wake up bell
- 8:00 – 8:50: Morning Chores
- 9:00 – 9:45: Breakfast
- 9:45 – 10:30: Singing and Announcements
- 10:30 – 11:00: Unit Chores and prepare for Morning Activities
- 11:00 – 1:00p: Morning Activities
- 1:00 – 2:00: Lunch and Afternoon Announcements
- 2:00 – 3:00: Siesta and prepare for Afternoon Activities
- 3:00 – 5:00: Afternoon Activities
- 5:00 – 5:30: Afternoon Tea
- 5:30 – 7:00: Afternoon Chores and Showers
- 7:00 – 8:00: Dinner and Evening Announcements
- 8:00 – 9:00: Evening Activities
- 9:00pm: First Star to Units
Most days start cool, in the 60’s – but usually hit the 70’s before lunch time! Most afternoons are warm enough to swim comfortably or to lay out and It’s typical to have fog in the morning, burning off through breakfast and rolling back in sometime after dinner. Most nights are very comfortable for sleeping and stay in the mid 50’s. Some weeks we might not see any fog at all, other weeks it might be with us every day. It just depends what the winds and weather patterns of the coast bring us!
At Farm Camp, we prioritize the safety and health of our campers and staff above everything else. Because of our location on the coast in Sonoma County, our emergency preparedness focuses on wildfires. While fire risk cannot be fully eliminated, Farm Camp works to mitigate and actively prepare for these situations. We are not at risk for catastrophic flooding.
Farm Camp is accredited by the American Camp Association which requires us to annually notify the Timber Cove Fire Department and Sonoma County Health Department of our dates of operation and number of occupants. We are fortunate to have an excellent relationship with their team, and are in contact with them if an incident happens.
Farm Camp has an office landline, director’s cellphone with service through Verizon, and a Starlink satellite system that provides internet access and WIFI-calling. Directors also have the Watch Duty app to receive notifications in the event of any activity in Sonoma County and the surrounding area. Similarly, we are signed up with Sonoma County’s SoCo Alert System and the Code Red Mobile Alert App. We closely monitor all county wildfire and emergency alerts that may impact camp.
The Timber Cove Fire Department is less than 4 miles down the road, and a Cal Fire Station is just a bit further down the coast. The Farm Camp leadership team and Stagecoach Ranch Leadership team have an annual walk through with the Timber Cove fire chief at the beginning of the summer to review and approve all emergency procedures. Our team has excellent communication with the fire department and they are an invaluable resource and support for our camp’s safety.
Staff are trained in our full Emergency Procedures before camp starts each summer and are reminded throughout to stay aware of all protocols. We perform fire checks on all fires made at camp to ensure they are completely out.
In the event of an evacuation, there are several different planned routes out of camp that can be taken contingent upon the situation. If an evacuation occurs, depending on the location and our proximity to the fire, we have several bus companies we are connected to who will come to pick up those on site. Campers and staff would then be brought to a local meeting point or back to the Bay Area.
If there is a fire very close to our site, the camp is designated as a staging ground for the local fire department. We have a lot of open meadows on site and a large indoor space in which we can shelter. Our site is equipped with many layers of fire defense, fire hoses, enough respirator masks for all campers and staff members, and medical equipment at camp. If a fire is imminent and does not allow for evacuation out of camp, campers and staff would shelter in place or walk to a nearby evacuation route at the direction of the fire department.
Farm Camp has Emergency Parent Communication plans in place. In the event of any nearby wildfire or other emergency situation, Farm Camp will email and text all families as soon as it is safely possible. If we are evacuated formally, we will communicate directly with every parent or guardian.
