The Duke Campus Farm provides learning opportunities that venture outside of the traditional classroom structure and explore embodied and ungraded education. We offer a variety of co-curricular programs, events, and collaborations throughout the year, all connected through a rotating yearly theme.
Seeds and Their Stories: Following Food and Plants Through our Communities
This year the Duke Campus Farm will delve into the generations of knowledge and stories that seeds offer, through events centered on seed cultivation, processing, saving, and archival exploration. Our programming will center the significance of heirloom seeds and biodiversity, ecological and social justice, and the legacy of seeds that we hold today. Our hope is that investigating the stories of North Carolinian seeds may help us to understand the depth of history and community that cultivated these crops and prompt us to look to the future of climate adaptation.
DCF welcomes all members of the Duke and Durham community to join these conversations as we listen to the stories that these seeds have to tell.
Contra Dance
our Spring Contra Dance will be on April 19th, 5-8pm!
Join us each Fall and Spring for our biannual Contra Dance! This community event is free and wholeheartedly welcomes community members, students, staff, faculty, friends, fellow farmers, travelers passing through.... Guided by Eileen Thorsos, a long-time contra caller, and serenaded by Mara Shea on the fiddle and Dean Herington on piano, you will find yourself whisked away into a night of promenading, balancing, and do-si-do-ing with new friends. It's impossible not to come away from this evening beaming!