Whole Child, Whole Family, Whole Community.
Summer Camps
Apple Blossom Village nurtures an inner enthusiasm for learning and wellbeing that honors and educates the mind, body, emotions, and spirit of every child, providing a strong foundation for life.
Land Acknowledgement
Apple Blossom is located in Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota), the traditional homeland of the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) and the Dakota (Sioux) People.
We express gratitude and appreciation for this land, and we honor the Dakota and Ojibwa People as its original protectors.
Real life skills are taught at Apple Blossom
New in Fall 2022 we will offer outdoor immersion all day everyday with the purchase of 2 winterized yurts! Please donate to help us reach this goal! We teach Survival Skills such as *whittling *campfire and shelter building *archery *tracking*bird watching, *cooking over the fire *composting *harvesting *preservation *planting *winter shelter building *ice skating *snowshoeing *skiing *seasonal crafts
World and Indigenous Cultural learning, German and Ojibwe language learning, field trips, and sustainable practices
Nature Immersion
On the shores of Lake Irving and the Mississippi River in Bemidji, MN, we explore and create in the great outdoors. At 47 degrees latitude, our summers are warm but short lived. Apple Blossom Village offers imaginative summer camps interwoven with the arts and nature immersion. Click here for more information about our summer day camps:
Recommended Reading:
The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
Balanced and Barefoot by Angela J. Hanscom
Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
Arts integrated curriculum
Apple Blossom Village provides a school experience during the school year for early childhood through third grade. Offering a unique option for families during the early childhood and elementary years. Apple Blossom's environment and curriculum builds a strong foundation for the whole child, while also supporting the whole family with a small welcoming "village" in these critical early years. We share camps, festivals, a holiday store, field trips and service projects with our whole community, getting to know the community in which we live.
From our First Day of School Ceremony to Festivals and Family Programs, Apple Blossom offers intentional ways to connect with each other and the wider Community. Come join us!
Future Yurt Kitchen for our Outdoor Classroom
Ready for our Autumn Lantern Walk
Apple Blossom is committed to a learning environment of respect, honesty, and inclusion that celebrates differences beginning in Early Childhood. Our vision and purpose promotes the importance of diversity and inclusivity through world language and culture, and an anti-bias curriculum that grows and deepens as the children grow. It is our goal that each child will feel connected to their own culture and traditions, and that all children and families will feel honored and respected. We stand firm in our commitment to offer learning in an atmosphere of love, trust, and respect for all people.