Campers love working in Hive’s organic garden raising summer vegetables and herbs. We harvest whatever’s ready to eat and deliver our garden delicacies to the kitchen for dishes the entire camp will enjoy. Girls develop new appreciations for the foods they eat when they see them grow from seed to plant and help bring them to their tables.

Campers collect eggs from Hive’s chicken coop every day. Like our garden vegetables, the fresh-laid eggs show up in the dining room a day or two later in delicious meals. The chickens we keep are beautiful to look at and fun to watch, too, hunting and pecking for their food in the coop yard.

Hive is home to three goats that campers take turns milking twice a day. Early in each morning there’s a special wake up call for girls who will head to the Hive barn for milking duty, and there’s an evening milking after dinner. After we pasteurize the goats’ milk we make it into delicious goat cheese and ice cream!

“Some Pigs” live at Hive in a pen next door to the goats. Campers feed the pigs leftovers from the kitchen, which helps us to recycle and compost as much of our uneaten food as possible. The pen needs cleaning a few times a day (they are pigs after all!), so girls can help out with that, too, if they want.