Urban Adamah
Urban Adamah is an educational farm and community center in Berkeley that integrates the practices of Jewish tradition, sustainable agriculture, mindfulness, and social action to build loving, just and sustainable communities. “Adamah” means “Earth” in Hebrew and at Camp Urban Adamah, we offer campers a taste of organic farm life through fun and dynamic hands-on programs. Our camp sessions are inspired by children’s natural curiosity and innate connectedness to the earth. Whether they are planting, harvesting, building mud forts, feeding our chickens and goats, making earth-based arts and crafts, or learning to cook in our industrial kitchen, camper explore the wonders of the natural world right here in the city. Campers have fun and get dirty!
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Parents, please Sign in to post a review on this page.My then 3.5 year old went to one week at UA summer 2018, liked it fine but I was more excited about it than he was. He went to the next winter break camp and loved it—multiple requests over a few months to go back in the summer, and occasionally sings songs (about the earth and composting) he learned there 5 months later. There were at least 2 counselors from the summer still there for winter which was lovely—he remembered them and they remembered him. He's excited to go back.
We sent our then 4-year-old to Urban Adamah’s winter camp program, and she loved it. At that point, she had only ever been dropped off at her preschool - we were nervous about how it would go, but the counselors were great with assisting with transitions, and by the second day she was fine. She later participated in one of their summer camp sessions.
The leadership and counselors are generally pretty attentive to concerns, at least when compared to other camp environments. If you reach out to the director, I’m sure she will have a call with you to go over how they can or can’t accommodate. She is very approachable.