As a kid, summer camp was the thing I was always looking forward to. The end of school meant I got to leave home to spend an entire month in the dreamy San Juan Islands with some of my closest friends in the world; it was the best part of my childhood. I never fully expected to come back and work at my childhood summer camp, but I knew if I ever did, I would want to be the gardener, tending to the garden plants and leading garden-based activities for future campers just like me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That dream came true this summer when I applied for the job of gardener at my childhood camp, Camp Nor’wester. Camp Nor’wester provides a month-long summer camp experience for kids aged 9 to 16 and is located on John’s Island in the San Juans. Working for two 1-month-long sessions, my summer will be almost entirely spent on John’s, which I am super excited about. Follow along on this website as I document my work as camp gardener through hand-written journal entries and readings from the book, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature<\/em> by David Haskell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *All photos taken by Zoe DeWitt unless otherwise listed* <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a kid, summer camp was the thing I was always looking forward to. The end of school meant I got to leave home to spend an entire month in the dreamy San Juan Islands with some of my closest friends in the world; it was the best part of my childhood. I never fully … Continue reading Welcome to Camp Nor’wester<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"geo":{"latitude":48.6659889,"longitude":-123.1511536,"description":"Friday Harbor, Washington, 98250, US"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodag-portfolio-su23-dewitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}