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 FALL 2024 Contra Dance has been rescheduled for october 26th, 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!
Land and Listen
Land & Listen is a monthly gathering for reflection and relaxation at the Duke Campus Farm. Each gathering begins with conversation around a short piece of environmental poetry by Black, eco-feminist, and queer poets. The loosely-facilitated literature discussion will be followed by unstructured time on the farm to do crafts, harvest flowers, cartwheel on the grass, explore the farm, and take time to decompress after the week. This program offers space for folks to engage with meditative prose, the land, and each other.
This fall's offerings include:
Friday 09/20, 4-5:30pm: Seed Sovereignty
Friday 11/15, 4-5:30pm: Native American Ecology
This program is open to all. No background in poetry or experience at the farm is necessary. Sign-ups are encouraged by visiting the link below.