2008 Activity Highlights

Saturdays Memorial Day through Labor Day
Crafts for All Ages: 10:00AM - 1:00PM • Hay Wagon Ride: 4:00PM

May | June | July | August | September | October

May

Memorial Day Weekend: Dance with DJ Skot Pare, Make Your Own Sundae, Hay Wagon Rides, Family Events.

June

July

Christmas in July - You asked for it. We’re doing it!

Make Your Own Ice Cream Sundae

August

Haunted Campground. Hay Wagon Ride through the dark camping area plus flash light candy hunt, Halloween games, and a bonfire.

September

October

Clean-Up Weekend - May 2-4, 2008

Camp for free* in exchange for helping us clean up the camping area. We require three hours of work from each person in your camping party over the age of 10 years. * You may have the campsite from 3:00PM on Friday to 1:00PM on Sunday by raking, picking up trash, etc. on Saturday morning from 9AM to Noon. We also invite you to join us for a Pot-Luck Supper on Saturday evening. Each family or couple is asked to bring either a casserole, salad or dessert (enough for eight servings) and your own plates and utensils. Coffee is provided. Bring your own cold beverage. Please call us at 1 800 274-8031 to make a reservation!

Haunted Campground - August 23, 2008

Tamworth Camping Area will be holding its 8th annual Haunted Campground in 2007. Get ready for a haunted hay wagon ride through the Haunted Campground where campers have decorated their sites in the eerie essence of the spirit of Halloween. But watch out! You never know what might jump out at you. The Hay Wagon will lead you to the Pavilion where you can play games and have a flashlight candy hunt. You will then move on to the Bonfire where there will be able to wear your scariest costumes. There will be a recognition for all costumes. Held from 7:00-10:00PM, this event is Free to registered campers only.

Heifer Project International

Each year we conduct activities on Labor Day Weekend at Tamworth Camping Area to raise money for Heifer Project International. Heifer Project International has been feeding the hungry in the USA and around the world since 1944, helping more than 4 million impoverished families in approximately 110 countries and 35 states become more self-reliant through the gift of livestock and training in their care. Their rule is that each family who receives an animal must give away the first born to another needy family willing to learn to feed themselves. A non-profit organization, rooted in the Christian tradition, HPI joins with people of faith everywhere to work for the dignity and well-being of all people. HPI provides 24 types of food and income producing animals, as well as intensive training in animal husbandry, environmentally sound, sustainable farming practices and community development. Heifer Project International is a member of InterAction and of International Service Agencies (#0315). For more information, visit Heifer Project International online at http://www.heifer.org or call 1 800 422-0474. Tamworth Camping Area has been supporting HPI for 20 years through our activities and hope you will join us in this effort. Immediate funds are needed at Overlook Farm due to a recent fire in their main animal barn where they lost 70 animals. Please send donations to: Heifer International, Overlook Farm, 216 Wachusett Street, Rutland, MA 01543.

The mission of Heifer Project is “to eliminate hunger and poverty through sustainable agriculture.” Contributions to HPI support education and gifts of livestock to poor families in this country and around the world. With Boston skyscrapers profiled on the far horizon, Heifer Project’s vision of a better world is lived daily on a 270 acre hilltop farm in Rutland, Massachusetts. Overlook Farm supports the mission of Heifer Project International by educating visitors about HPI’s message to eliminate hunger and poverty through sustainable agriculture. Programs revolve around an integrated land and livestock production system which uses techniques and resources similar to those available to U.S. families who receive assistance from HPI. Since Overlook is a working farm which markets products from its integrated woodlands, organic garden, and more than a dozen livestock enterprises, visitors can see for themselves how the HPI model works.

Visitors to Overlook Farm experience a special one acre plot that shows subsistence-level agricultural practices of farmers in other countries. They can spend time at a Central American-type farm or visit a Tibetan yurt, (a yak hair tent). Visitors can even arrange for a “Habitat Farm Hunger Seminar” that includes cooking a meal common to the world’s poor. Overlook Farm provides visitors the opportunity to assist in meeting HPI’s vision of a better world through hands-on suport. Overlook receives the assistance of several full-time and more than 100 local part-time volunteers. Work groups from colleges, churches and civic organizations come to learn and lend a hand throughout the year. Overlook also provides a place for recreation and relaxation. Visitors can picnic, hike the woodland trail or shop at the gift shop. Overlook invites you to take a tour, bring a work group, attend a special event or become a volunteer.

Overlook Farm is located 10 miles northwest of Worcester. From the intersection of Routes 122A and 68 in Holden, go North 2.5 miles. At the blinking light, take a right onto Wachusett Street. Overlook Farm is ½ mile on the right. From Route 2 in Gardner, follow Route 68 South for 14 miles and at the blinking light take a left onto Wachusett Street. Overlook Farm is ½ mile on the right. Hours are Monday-Saturday: 8:30AM-4:30PM; Sunday: Noon-4:30PM. For information, call (508) 886-2221.

Heifer International 2006 Funds Buy Goat, Llama and Water Buffalo

Thanks to all those “bikers” who ate pancakes and to Diane for her various craft and game activities, we raised $260.00 for Heifer International which we were able to match for a total Tamworth Camping Area 2006 contribution of $520.00. This amount of money bought a water buffalo (the source of real mozzarella cheese) a llama (just like our Mr. Wilson) and a goat (not our Georgie!), all of which will provide food, fiber and future income for many families in need of a way to sustain their lives.

Thanks so much for your help. Please join us again this year for more pancakes and fun events for Heifer International!

Farm Report 2008

If you have never tasted farm fresh eggs, you are in for a treat! We sell eggs from our chickens in our camping area country store, along with yarn spun from wool shorn from our sheep. In the Fall of 2006, we were able to make some long planned renovations to our animal barn which includes separate stalls for our horse, Molly, and for some of our older goats and sheep who can’t chew hay as well as they used to. They may be “bumped” from these stalls during lambing so the baby lambs will be sheltered from too many hooves! We currently feed 20 plus animals twice a day, and that’s before any new babies are born!