Ah, the gentle flash of a firefly; the hallmark of any early summer’s eve! Like tiny bursts of starlight, these pulses of white and green light punctuate the dark like the dots and dashes of Morse code. Technically a beetle, these “lightening bugs” (another name for...
Check out some of the items that have been donated for our live and silent auctions at our Surf ‘n’ Turf Fundraiser on June 24th, at Camp Kawartha. Click here to purchase your tickets for this event!! We would like to express our sincere appreciation...
Visiting students will now have a sweet view of maple syrup being made in Camp Kawartha’s new Sugar Shack. Staff used recycled materials to create a little charming building with a large window installed low enough for even the smallest guests to see the sap bubbling...
I was a kid with her head in a book. The outdoors were okay, I guess. My parents like to tell stories about how I was the kid who would walk around the puddle instead of through it. I wasn’t big on getting dirty and was happy to quietly sit in my room or on the couch...
It’s a fact of life that even the most beautiful organic material is destined to go from ripe to rotting in a relatively short period of time. Here at Camp Kawartha, we can produce over 120 litres of organic waste each and every day. But what to do with such a volume...
Last week, as I was giving creative input into this year’s sweatshirt design, I had a chance to reflect on the tagline in our logo “Inspiring Environmental Stewardship”. I paused to consider how “Inspiring” is both a descriptor as well as a verb or action word....
