Farm & Garden Camp is brought to you by 
The Farm Education Collaborative

Directors

Hope Guardenier 
M.S. in Environmental Science
As the Executive Director of School Sprouts Educational Gardens, Hope has been instrumental in designing and implementing over 15 teaching gardens throughout the Pioneer Valley.  She works with schools, community centers and afterschool programs to realize a vision of outdoor classrooms that allow for hands-on learning and meaningful work.  Hope has a M.S. in Environmental Science and additional experience in curriculum development, program coordination, and over a decade of teaching in the outdoors.  She  is passionate about connecting youth of all ages to their food and bringing learning to life.  She and her family live and garden in Belchertown.


Alya Stoffer-Koloszyc 
M.S. in Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Elementary Teaching Certification
Alya has danced between farming and teaching since 1996, when she began a three year apprenticeship at Intervale Community Farm, a large CSA in Burlington, Vermont.  She combined these passions in her role as Education Coordinator and Market Manager for New York City’s Greenmarket in 1999 and worked on farms between and during teaching jobs over the following decade.  Alya collaborated with city educators and market farmers to develop a kindergarten food curriculum, which evolved into her graduate thesis at Bank Street College of Education.  She has worked as a classroom teacher for eight years in both public and private settings, growing food inside and out with children from three to six years old.  She also co-directed an overnight summer camp in Brattleboro, Vermont and helped to initiate a garden program there. She currently directs the Farm Hands Preschool at Town Farm.  Alya now makes her home and garden in Leverett with her children, Avery and Barnaby.