Summer Camp 2025
Program Schedule
Week 1 | June 30 — July 4
Colliery Dam
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–8
$175
All Day | 9am–3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$350
Afternoons | 12:30—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$175
Week 2 | July 21 — 25
Linley Valley
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–8
$175
All Day | 9am–3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$350
Afternoons | 12:30—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$175
Week 3 | July 28 — Aug 01 Forest/Farm near Colliery Dam
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–8
$175
All Day | 9am–3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$350
Afternoons | 12:30—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$175
Forest/Farm School with
Azimuth Farm & Forest of Big Bang Cider | 1235 Nanaimo Lakes Rd
We have partnered again with the Big Bang Cidery, a previous Forest School site, where students will explore and play within the forests surrounding Chase River and Colliery Dam Park. The farm component will offer children an opportunity to learn and work alongside farmer Blaise Barre from Azimuth Farms, who operates a CSA Organic Market Garden. Blaise farms a plot tucked within the orchard. Farm animals are there to visit as well. The farm portion is availible to children who are farm curious, though the forest will always have an instructor for forest play and adventure!
Week 4 | August 11 — 15
Colliery Dam
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–8
$175
All Day | 9am–3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$350
Afternoons | 12:30—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$175
Week 5 | August 18 — 22
Neck Point Park
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–8
Afternoons | 12:30–3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$175/ 5 half days
Week 6 | August 25 — 29
SEED Neighborhood Ecosystems*
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–8
$175
All Day | 9am–3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$350
Afternoons | 12:30—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
$175
* Located in Nanaimo's South End, students will learn and explore within the Chase River and Catstream Watershed as well as the numerous food forests in the SEED neighbourhood that are ripe with fruits and berries at this time of year.
*ABOUT THE SEED Neighbourhood
Nestled within the South End and Harewood Community, SEED Neighbourhood (South End Ecological Development) is becoming a Mecca for environmental restoration and food production. Forest School students will explore the Catstream Watershed with its forest, stream and wetland, as well as plunge deep within Chase River Canyon where one hardly notices the city scape surrounds.
SEED Neighbourhood contains the Princess St. Forest Classroom which has transformed from a blackberry thicket into a thriving pocket forest for easy access nature connection.
In addition to adventuring and playing in these spaces, students will have the opportunity to practice caring for the land through invasive species removal and garbage removal, and tree planting. Furthermore, three food forests in the neighborhood: Thuthiqut, BingKee and Bayview,
containing all together over 120 fruit and nut trees, offer delicious ecosystems for children to learn how to tend to our urban forest gardens. Last years summer camp in the SEED Neighbourhood proved it to be an ideal location for Nanaimo Forest School.
Spring Break 2026
Program Schedule
Week 1 | March 16 — 20
Colliery Dam
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–6
SEED* Neighborhood Ecosystem
ALL DAY | 9am—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
Week 2 | March 23 — 27
Linley Valley
Mornings | 9am–12pm
Children age 3–6
Linley Valley
ALL DAY | 9am—3:30pm
Children age 5–12
When registering a co-op membership fee of a sliding scale 10–100$/year and family will need to be applied, unless you already are a member for the year.
