THAT GIFTING TIME OF YEAR!!

Your donation to Camino de Paz, whether $10 or $10,000, is deeply appreciated. Here's what your money can provide:

Tuition assistance for a family that cannot afford private school (up to $4,500)

Books, especially multiple sets for literature and humanities seminars
($500 – $1,000)

Software/accessories for foreign language classes ($300/set)

Specialized instruction in fiber arts for felting, spinning, weaving and dying classes ($1200)

Herbal and nutritional supplements for our animals ($150/month);

More solar panels to defray our utility costs

Increased radio and print advertising, so CDP is no longer northern New Mexico's best kept secret!

Why a Farm School?

"Work on the land is an introduction both to nature and to civilization and gives a limitless field for scientific and historic studies."
- Maria Montessori

At Camino de Paz the farm provides a broad context for the students' applied learning and for the development of the whole personality. Math, science, reading, writing, history, arts and crafts come alive as these skills are used daily in a real, practical way.

The farm presents the possibility for students to create a real, working community at a time in life when there is a driving need to be with peers, to be valued and accepted for who they are and to form mentoring relationship with adults who are not their parents. The daily work required on a farm also supports social, emotional and character-building skills such as cooperation, compassion, honesty, integrity, problem-solving, creative thinking, listening, observation and pride in a job well done. These experiences serve to promote an understanding of the natural and social world that make possible a different kind of moral discernment and an understanding complex sets of relationship and that every issue has many aspects, considerations and points of view.

Although it would be thrilling for any of our graduates to choose organic farming as a profession, there is the expectation that each student will be prepared for high school and beyond in any profession they desire.

"There is practically no field of human endeavor that does not relate to
agriculture in some way." - Rudolf Steiner