Hello CK families, campers and community members! Thank you to everyone who has reached out to our camp with donations and offering support due to the storm. It's in times like theses where we are so grateful for the amazing community and the lifelong commitment of...
Gikendawmowin book boxes & scavenger hunt!
Below is the description of a great project that one of the young people, Minowe, who has attended programming at the Environment Centre for years has put together. We just wanted to help spread the word - consider having a look and joining in the fun & learning!...
Indigenous Ways of Knowing…
Camp Kawartha is delighted to be able to work with TRACKS (TRent Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge and Science) Program to create a space where campers and students can learn about Indigenous ways of knowing and strengthen their connection to the land. TRACKS is an...
Meet our new Summer Camp & Environment Centre Registrar
You may have spoken with James recently if you've called the office in the past two months about Summer Camp or the Environment Centre. We figured it was high time we properly introduce him to our CK Community! James White is our most recent addition to the CK office...
Creating sustainable attitudes at Camp Kawartha Environmental Centre
Source: Peterborough Examiner. Jacob Rodenburg is looking out the large, south-facing central window of the Camp Kawartha Environmental Centre, an innovative zero-carbon building that can still claim some environmental "one-and-only" features seven years after it...
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre aims to inspire the next generation of environmentalists
Source: Peterborough Examiner. A community consultation was held Thursday afternoon [April 14, 2016] at the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre on Pioneer Road for the new project Pathway to Stewardship, A Framework for Children and Youth, aimed at helping raise the next...
Nature Playscapes Opening at the Environment Centre
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Environment Centre last month to celebrate the opening of our Nature Playscapes! It was such a lovely day and we were so pleased to see over 100 community members, new & old friends of the Environment Centre come...
New Horizons for the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre
"How do you create a culture of sustainability and stewardship?" asks Jacob Rodenburg, Executive Director of Camp Kawartha. The answer, he believes, is in providing our children with inspiring examples of sustainable living in action. From teaching kids how to reduce...
Environment Centre Day Camp 2011
It is with great pride that we announce the successful conclusion of the first annual Environment Centre Day Camp. For five action packed days (July 11-15), three adults and sixteen campers played and adventured in the forest and trails around Trent. Although we were...
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre – Phase 2 Construction
Source: Peterborough Examiner. See photos of St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School students from their community-based construction program as they work on a timberframe pavillion at the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre.