You’re invited to a ThorpeWood Community Event! We are planning a lot of fun community events throughout the year – and we are starting with a concert at our beautiful timber frame lodge! Come listen as Eef Barzelay of Clem…
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‘So What Else’ Overnight – 2023
For the first time since April 2019, we welcomed back the wonderful organization So What Else! Here’s a bit about this wonderful non-profit: So What Else’s mission is to improve the lives of children and families living in underserved communities…
Posted in Stoney Lick Farm, Youth Programs
Woods in Your Backyard
The ThorpeWood team assembled this past Saturday at the Ole Mink Farm Recreation Resort to attend The Catoctin Land Trust’s Woods in Your Backyard program. The event is designed to unite local landowners in caring for our woodlands. The Catoctin…
New Years Resolutions – 2023
Well the farm animals are all astir over the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. They are a motivated bunch of critters – goal-driven, ambitious, unstoppable. Let’s take a look at what they have planned for the new…
Posted in Horses, Stoney Lick Farm
December at ThorpeWood’s Lodge
As anyone who has been to ThorpeWood in December knows, there is no place as beautifully decorated for the holidays as ThorpeWood’s lodge. Word has gotten around over the past two decades, it turns out. We had so many non-profits…
2022 Holiday Open Houses
ThorpeWood was delighted to host three Holiday Open Houses at our lodge this year! Each night from 2-8pm, we surrounded ourselves with neighbors and friends of ThorpeWood. Our 17′ tall Christmas tree, topped by our taxidermied bard owl, dazzled attendees.…
Green Careers Event
Earlier this week, we were delighted to host the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education’s (MAEOE) Green Careers event at ThorpeWood’s lodge. This event focused on bringing together high schoolers with 30+ green professionals from a huge range of…
Posted in Events, Youth Programs
Our Partnership with Head Start
As we close out 2022, we are honoring our relationship with the Frederick County Head Start program. Nine years ago, back in January 2014, we announced our new partnership with the following message on our blog: We are so very…
Posted in Head Start, Youth Programs
Teen Camp Jamie 2022
Following up from their recent camp this past September, Camp Jamie held a teen camp at ThorpeWood this past weekend. The small group of 8 campers and 7 staff dedicated their day to healing, sharing, and being in the presence…
Posted in Youth Programs
Introducing…Clare!
Oh my are we delighted to introduce Clare, our assistant program director and barn manager! She was already proven gold by the time we offered her the job – she volunteered with us for programs, animal care, and litter pick…
Posted in Stoney Lick Farm
