Belle Vie Farm Summer Camp 2026
growing great kids since 2018
Belle Vie Farm's Summer Camp 2026 will offer summer camps for children ages 3-5 (potty training not required) and 6-11.
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We also have Counselor-in-Training camp opportunities available. Kids ages 12-15 are eligible for our CIT positions. The cost for CITs is $150/week.
Learn more about our CIT Program here.
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Our weekly summer camps run from June 15-August 21. Morning Camp runs from 8:30am-12:30pm and is $250-270/week. Extended day is offered for campers 6-11 until 4:30pm and is $150/week.
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Register before Dec. 1 to get Early Bird Pricing: $50 off each camp week
for ages 3-5 and 6-11!
BVF Summer Camp 2026 includes NEW sleepover camp nights! Kids will have an opportunity to register for up to 10 camp nights at the farm during the 2026 camp season. Camp nights will include sleeping tents/cabins, dinner & breakfast, and more!
BVF has a core mission in our work with kids: help them build & grow great character qualities! Learn more about how we do that here!
Belle Vie Farm offers pre-summer camp gatherings for families registered for at least one week of camp. What is scarier than flinging across the BVF dirt slide zipline? Coming to camp on the first day and not knowing anyone! Yikes!
​We feel you - we don't like going places we don't know anyone either. Our solution? On the dates listed below, BVF summer campers and their families can join us at the farm for "summer camp lite"! We'll have a sampling of activities and, of course, bunnies, bunnies and more bunnies! If the weather is friendly (i.e. colder than a boulder, as Shelley likes to say), we'll have a fire pit burning and s'mores waiting! The farm will welcome families from 10am-12pm on March 14, April 18, and May 23. Register for camp dates and pre-view attendance at the same time here!
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For the 2026 Belle Vie Farm Summer Camps, we will once again offer weekly themes. In addition to activities centered around the theme of the week, camp weeks will include the following activities:
Cooking
Hay Ride
Gem Mining
Gardening
Candle Making
Ice Cream Making
Soap Making
Forest Play
Animal Care
Safe Archery
Pickle Making
Water Play
Wilderness & Earth Skills
July 20-24
Art, Theater & Choreography
July 27-31
Cardboard Adventures
Aug 3-7
Inventions Galore
Aug 10-14
BVF Olympics
Aug 17-21
June 15-19
Pirate Fever & Mermaid Adventure
June 22-26
​LARP & Tabletop RPG
June 29-July 3
Mythical Creatures & Enchanted Forests
July 6-10
Secret Agents & Spies
July 13-17
Themes
Our animals include donkeys, pygora and fainting goats, rabbits, laying hens, Welsh Harlequin ducks and Tamworth pigs raised in our forests!
Animals
Places
Belle Vie Farm Summer Camp takes place on 34 acres of farm and forest just 5 minutes from downtown Carrboro. Belle Vie Farm has two separate indoor spaces that campers use. Our barn is the center of our farm and houses most of our growing and indoor gardening activities! Our art and maker studio is a climate controlled 1800-square foot space that is a short walk from the barn. This space has a full kitchen as well as hundreds of art and maker materials. Our camp also offers 25 acres of forest to explore, a half-acre pond filled with frogs, turtles and dragonfly nymphs, ephemeral streams for romping through, an outdoor water play area.​
And, of course, Belle Vie is home to the infamous DIRT SLIDE, the 75-foot zip line and Rock Village's Climbing Webs!
Campers are invited to explore our Art Studio and MakerSpace, a magical space filled with every artistic medium one could imagine: acrylics, watercolors, encaustic wax, pastels, Sharpie markers, colored crayons, a huge variety of papers, canvases and wood. Click here for a full list of available supplies. Also available are maker supplies for the engineer-minded creative! Think Scrap Exchange on a farm! From bottle caps to fabric and scrap wood to recycled plastics, the MakerSpace has something for everyone.
Spaces
People
Belle Vie hires counselors who have attended at least one year of college and who have experience working with children. We do not employ high school students to work with our campers. Our Summer Camp Director is Shelley, owner of Belle Vie Farm.
The starting wage for our camp counselors is $20 per hour. We believe in paying staff what their experience demands, and we want the BEST camp counselors to choose Belle Vie Farm!​
Morning camp for ages 3-5 (8:30am-12:30pm) is $250. and for ages 6-11 is $270. Afternoon Camp (12:30pm-4:30pm) is available for campers ages 6-11. The cost per week is $150.
If you have siblings registering, please complete the registration twice so that we have each child's information.​
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