Legends of Tracking 2025 – A Retrospective
A Family Skills Festival in the Forest A Retrospective Check out the video below or watch it here! Imagine a weekend where kids, parents, educators, learners, and mentors gather under towering trees to rediscover the art of living close to the land. That’s what happened at this year’s Legends of Tracking Skills Festival—a weekend of […]
Halloween 2025 – Coloring Contest
🎃 Trackers Coloring Contest · Halloween 2025 Halloween Contest Spooky season is here! This page stars Sock-on-a-Stick, the mischievous goblin trickster of the Goblin Market. Will you color him silly, spooky or spectacular? 👻 🏁 Contest EndedYou can still download this page for coloring at home.Find the latest contest here → Click the page to […]
Wild Foraging: Four Fall Foods to Discover
A friendly heads-up: Foraging is wonderful, but it’s also serious business. Never eat anything wild unless you’re absolutely certain of your identification—when in doubt, leave it out. This guide shares our experiences, but every forager needs to do their own research, be sensitive to personal allergies, and take responsibility for their choices. Start small, be […]
Trackers is Our Name
Paying Attention in an Age That Profits When We Don’t Many folks look at Trackers and see a skills program—offering camps where kids learn archery, wilderness survival, fishing, woodworking, and more. Others know us for our fantastical themes—secret agents, elf quests, zombie survival, and so on—sparking imagination in young minds. Still more parents trust us […]
Peak Fun: Trackers Action-Pack
At Trackers, we’re not your typical “nature day camp.” Think less mud kitchens and meet-a-tree, and more Goonies, Labyrinth, or a classic 1980s Saturday morning cartoon. We keep things moving. On the surface, it might seem like just a fun adventure—but behind all the action is a deeply intentional teaching strategy. One key element of […]
Summer 2025 – Coloring Contest
☀️ Trackers Coloring Contest · Summer 2025 Summer Contest Hooray for summer! Celebrate the start of the season and all the adventures happening at camp with a brand new coloring page. 🌞 🏁 Contest EndedYou can still download this page for coloring at home.Find the latest contest here → Click the page to print it […]
April Showers Bring Baby Lambs!
Spring has arrived at Trackers Farm, home to our Wilders Farm Camps, and with it, a wave of baby animals! Our fields are full of bleats, peeps, and wobbly legs. So far, we’ve welcomed 15 lambs (and counting!) from our Soay sheep—a hardy, ancient breed known for its wild spirit. One of those lambs, Sundae, […]
Mother’s Day – Coloring Contest (2025)
💐 Trackers Coloring Contest · Mother’s Day 2025 Mother’s Day Contest Celebrate the mothers, grandmothers and caregivers who help our families grow wild and strong. 🌼 🏁 Contest EndedYou can still download this page for coloring at home.Find the latest contest here → Click the page to print it and color it at home. 📅 […]
Introducing Fellowships – Growing Friendships in Nature
Two of our cornerstone school-year programs have launched for fall—Weekend Apprenticeships and Weekday Homeschool—with something new and exciting added: Fellowships. Portland Apprenticeships or Homeschoool Bay Area Apprenticeships or Homeschoool Seattle – Kirkland Apprenticeships or Homeschoool Why Fellowships? Because connection matters. We’re seeing it more every year: more kids report struggling to make lasting friendships. Research […]
Trackers 5-Year Plan – April 1, 2025
On this April 1st, we’re pulling back the curtain on Trackers Earth’s 5-Year Plan—because what we do takes vision, wildly fun ideas, and just the right dose of post-apocalyptic preparedness. 🛶 2025 – Stay the course: Keep striving to run the Best Camps in the Known Universe. It’s what we do. It’s what we’ll always […]