Who We Are
Bellwether Farm Camp, Retreat, and Education Center offers a model of sustainable living that promotes physical and spiritual wellness, fidelity to the environment, and social justice.
Programming
Nestled into the curves of the Vermillion River, Bellwether Farm is a camp, retreat, and education center dedicated to exposing the wider community to the creation that sustains all of life. As a working farm, its life focuses on four primary activities.
Facilities & Grounds
Bellwether Farm is a unique and affordable option for your next gathering. The center offers brand new facilities featuring a green technology, renewable energy, and water reclamation systems.
Get Involved
Find ways to get involved with Bellwether Farm including volunteer opportunities and ways to give.
Rooted in nature. Radiating joy. Remembered forever.
Bellwether Farm Camp is a week-long, overnight experience where children grow in confidence, creativity, and connection. Set on 137 acres of forest, farm, meadows, and water, our camp blends outdoor adventure with meaningful community, offering kids space to explore, reflect, and simply be themselves.
Each session welcomes about 40 campers, ensuring a close-knit environment where every child feels seen, supported, and safe. Days are filled with hands-on experiences like farming, cooking, canoeing, archery, hiking, and nature-based art. Evenings bring the whole camp together for homegrown traditions, like talent shows, night hikes, and songs under the stars.
Campers are grouped by cabin—eight near-peers and two trained counselors who provide steady care and gentle guidance. Activities are designed to engage all personalities and energy levels, from enthusiastic extroverts to thoughtful introverts.
Children & Youth Camps
Our days are spent in activities that vary from cooking and farming to archery and canoeing to hiking and field games- and lots of nature-based art! Campers are organized by cabins, with 8 near-peers and two counselors. Campers participate with their cabins in most activities, and gather with the whole camp for meals, daily assemblies, and some after-dinner all-camp activities (like the talent show!)
Family Camps
Families and households are organized together in cabins and our lodge rooms. Our cabins can sleep 10, while our rooms vary. If family or household units are small, similar family and households structures could be assigned to share a cabin. Intergenerational and age-appropriate activities will be offered throughout our time together with an emphasis on families and households doing things together. This is a fantastic way to connect with your loved ones over a long weekend. There are no limitations to the ages that are welcome during these sessions. Parents or guardians are required to attend Family Camp sessions.
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Bellwether Farm is a model of green technology featuring passive buildings, renewable energy, and more. It is a vehicle through which we can teach the wider community about fidelity to the environment, nutrition, physical and spiritual wellness, local food sourcing, food justice, and sustainable living.
Volunteer
Volunteer around Bellwether Farm. Opportunities are posted as they become available.