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.
Students and community members dance together at DCF's 2025 Spring Contra, our biggest one yet with over 200 people!
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2025 Restorative Spring Break offered ways to unwind, including planting seedlings, screen printing, and playing with goats.
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A double rainbow shone over DCF's Heirloom Collard Seed Keeping work shop with Chris Keeve.
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Former programming member Mira Polishook holds up a mushroom at this year's mushroom inoculation workshop with the Vilgalys Lab.
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Contra Dance
2025 Fall contra is on october 25th, from 5-8pm
Join us each Fall and Spring for our biannual Contra Dance! This community event 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!
Entry fee is $5- pay at the door with either cash or card.
Click the button below to volunteer at Contra and help with set up, break down, parking, and merch/snack/welcome tables. Free entry for volunteers + a DCF shirt!
visit the farm
If you would like to schedule a tour, workshop, or other program with the farm, please fill out one of the following interest forms.
freshman orientation
Each August, we welcome hundreds of Duke first years to the farm for work days, tours, bonfires, pizza nights, and more. If you're an orientation leader who would like to bring your O-group to the farm (or engage in on-capus DCF programming), please fill out this request form.
Some costs associated with buying produce, work day supplies, pizza making supplies, and bonfires. These costs will vary depending on the size of your group and length of stay.
We have reached our programming capacity for Orientation 2025. We look forward to partnering with you next summer!