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​Summer 2025

Registration is now open!

Program Information

Camp Dates
Camp EarthPact is a Monday to Friday day camp, from 9 AM to 3 PM with options for before (8 AM - 9 AM) and after care (3 PM - 4 PM) for an additional fee.
Week 1 will take place from June 23 - June 27, 2025, and Week 2 will take place from June 30 - July 4, 2025. You may register for one or both!
Location
Camp EarthPact is based out of the Watkins Regional Park campgrounds in Upper Marlboro, MD. We incorporate field trips into the camp curriculum, historically to partner farms in the county.
​This year, each week of Camp EarthPact will feature TWO partner Black- and women-owned farms in Prince George's County, where we will spend about half of each week!
Châteaux Cocoa is an urban farm located in Upper Marlboro, where you can find herbs, vegetables, bees, and chickens. Farmer Dee works with schools and community groups to host beekeeping educational days and training budding gardeners. You may recognize her from Camp EarthPact 2024 as one of our fabulous counselors and CELL 2024 graduates.
A Heart 4 People Farm is an 8-acre farm located in rural Aquasco, MD. Farmer Michele is a graduate of the inaugural CELL cohort of 2023 and host of Camp NatureScape. She grows crops and raises bees for the purposes of feeding senior citizens and food insecure families, and also teaches groups of all ages how to grow their own food!
Camp Fees
Camp fees are charged at a rate of $200 per week per camper.
Before and after care rates are based on daily attendance and are $25 each per week. 
​About the curriculum
Camp EarthPact 2025 will adapt the Africultural Connections Curriculum, created in collaboration with OurSpace World, Inc., Africulture/Carter Farms, and B. Sharise Moore to bridge the gap between the farm and the classroom. Check out the curriculum, free and available online!
Contact US
You can reach us at [email protected].

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai

What is Camp EarthPact?

Camp EarthPact is an African-centered youth summer camp program that was first piloted in the summer of 2022. It focuses on environmental stewardship targeting campers ages 4-17. The goal of Camp EarthPact is to build a pipeline for a future generation of climate-conscious Black land-stewards while building knowledge and skills around climate justice, sustainable land use, and sovereign community. By design, Camp EarthPact integrates ancestral wisdom, history, and core classroom subjects (math, science, literacy and culture) into the real-world context.

Camp EarthPact Leadership Lab

In 2023, OurSpace hosted the inaugural Camp EarthPact Leadership Lab -- a pilot program to mobilize leaders to host their own EarthPact camps. Acceptance into the virtual Leadership Lab provided a 6-week module that covers topics such as camp design, logistics, staffing, marketing, safety, arts and culture and ancestral wisdom to support camps that focus on areas such as, regenerative agriculture, sustainable land stewardship, renewable energy, forestry, waste reduction, alternative transportation, natural building and environmental justice.  At the completion of the modules, attendees engaged in coaching sessions with the lab facilitator(s) to support the curation of individual and cooperative camps.
Scroll down to read more information about  Camp EarthPact's 2023 and 2024 summer programs!
Summer 2024
Summer 2023
Below is a recording of the Camp EarthPact Virtual Expo held May 25, 2023, accompanied by flyers for the Camp EarthPact programs hosted by those who successfully completed the 2023 Camp EarthPact Leadersip Lab
(click on each flyer for more program-specific information where available)

THE CAMP EARTHPACT CREW

Mama Eshé

Camp EarthPact Leadership Lab Instructor
Eshe is the Director of Programs at OurSpace World. She has a bachelor’s degree in Youth Development and a Master of Arts in Applied Healing Arts. Ms. Armah has a long occupational history of agricultural/outdoor education and project management spanning close to 25 years, and recently worked as a program coordinator for The Federation of Southern Cooperatives. She has worked on various OSW projects (centered around outdoor education and leadership development) since Summer 2022 and has a passion for Black youth.

Big Sister Endora

Camp EarthPact Assistant Director
Endora is th​e Teach22 Program Assistant at OurSpace World. She recently graduated with a degree in Afro-American Studies and Political Science and is passionate about social justice and community organizing.  Endora loves spending time outside, doing yoga, and connecting with nature. She enjoys sharing her love of nature with children, showing them that nature is both a playground with exciting things to explore as well as a sanctuary that can ground us and bring us peace.

Big Sister Sessina

Camp EarthPact Director
Sessina is the Teach22 Program Coordinator at OurSpace World. She graduated with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and is passionate about making science education accessible and exciting. Sessina loves the outdoors and all of Earth’s amazing lifeforms, and is dedicated to instilling that love in the next generation of Earth’s stewards and healers.