Hi y’all, Sarah Kujawski here, daughter of Nature Camp Caretaker, Ventry Smith. Growing up, I heard all these stories of this place called Nature Camp….
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by Katie Keith Darrin Duling has worked as a botanical horticulturist, landscape architect, and public garden administrator throughout the world. He received an Associate Degree…
By Tina Dudley At Nature Camp, I had the immense pleasure of meeting Gucci, a 19 week-old falcon, and his owner/handler, Corey Basham (Licensed Falconer)….
As you may recall from our last issue, our Nature Camp family lost Joe Garvin. This hit the NCF and NCI board members extremely hard…
Wilson Ratliff has made a career out of shrinking carbon footprints. As technical director of the Charlottesville-based Local Energy Alliance Program, a regional nonprofit focused…
It all started with a snappy grandma, a bold little girl, and an intriguing picture of Matthew Bain holding a snake out on the Nature…
It’s easy for Kirsten Talken-Spaulding to draw a connection between her summers at Nature Camp and her career with the National Park Service. Reflecting on…
One of my great regrets in life is that I never got to know Sam Lavender very well. Sam was the caretaker here at Nature…
In 1991, as a 20 year-old rising Senior at the University of North Carolina, I did the most outlandish and absurd thing I have ever…