We are excited to be offering socially distanced lodge rentals for households of up to 10 people with options for prepared meals and family activities including hiking, pool time, canoeing, farm tours, and more.

Come enjoy Summer with us at Camp McDowell!

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Learn how to effectively build an inclusive community within your classroom by learning the answer to this: How do we build inclusion and opportunities for social and emotional learning through intentional choices?

In this an interactive workshop we will:

• Investigate ways to include social and emotional growth in any classroom or organization.
• Learn how to create a place where students can develop their social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision making, self-awareness, and self-management.
• Build a classroom that is more successful academically because of the buy-in your students have for you, their community, and their coursework.

Continuing education credits can be earned. Cost depends upon the lodging you choose. Four meals are included.

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Connecting with your family to nature and to a farm.

Growing Roots is a Family event at Camp McDowell for all ages. This can be a powerful and meaningful chance to create a lifelong bond with your children by sharing nature with them.

Activities may include:

• Learn and get excited about Nature and Farming together with your children or grandchildren.
• Discover what's unique about Alabama as you wade the streams and hike in sandstone canyons with geologists.
• Create art using natural resources.
• Swim and tube the waters of Clear Creek and in our zero-entry pool.
• Awake in the morning and do farm chores together...milk goats, gather eggs, feed farm animals, & pick blueberries for cobbler!

Cost depends on choice of lodging and includes 4 meals.

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Join us for a shorter sampling of Folk School offerings. Come for the day for Saturday’s classes or stay the night to enjoy all Camp McDowell has to offer including hiking and canoeing on Clear Creek.

POSTPONED: New dates coming soon!

Farm Folk Weekend is your chance to experience the best of Camp McDowell's farm and folk programs. Bring the folks you love to Camp McDowell for a fabulous Labor Day weekend filled with fresh air, farm food, folk classes, fellowship, and more! Taught and facilitated by instructors from the McDowell Farm School and the Alabama Folk School, this is an amazing weekend, full of learning and community. Stay tuned for more information about classes and to register.

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During this workshop quilters and artists practice in a beautiful, encouraging atmosphere while others fully immerse themselves in old-time music, their days and nights filled with classes taught by master musicians, jam sessions, concerts, and group performances. Participants register for one class that includes six in-depth sessions in that discipline. Afternoon mini-classes give participants a chance to learn a brand new instrument.

In-depth classes offered in this session include Fiddle I & II, Banjo I & II, Guitar, Mandolin, Harmony Singing, Repertoire, Blacksmithing, and Gee's Bend Quilting.

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Calling all 5th & 6th graders! It’s all the fun of SUMMER CAMP...in the fall! Join us in Clear Creek (“Lower Camp”) for group games, hiking, singing, s'mores and friends! Halloween costumes are encouraged for the Pasture Party and friends are ALWAYS welcome! Dinner is served at 6:30p Friday. We will have a closing worship service with Eucharist Sunday at 9:00 am. All family members and guardians are welcome to attend. Join us for this awesome weekend at wonderful, wonderful Camp McDowell!

Cost: $135 per person

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Fall at Camp McDowell might be the loveliest time of all. Join us for a weekend of craft and music classes. Choose from Pie Baking Basics, Mosaic Art, Field Photography, and beginner Guitar and Ukulele classes. Click the registration button below to see more details about pricing and classes. All classes are appropriate for beginner and intermediate students alike.

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All combinations of families are invited for a special weekend of fresh air, farm food, and quality time in the beauty of God's Backyard! Spend time together as you harvest vegetables and feed the pigs, cut firewood, prepare and share a farm to table meal, learn sustainable practices for home, and enjoy a “Garden to Glass” class (while the kids are at "Kids Camp"). Family Farm to Table Retreat is a beautiful and fun way to reconnect with God’s creation and each other the weekend before Thanksgiving! Recommended for 1st grade and up.

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