30 years + 30 days + 30 kids + you = free summer camp!
For 30 years Dr. Bud Wilson has worked a miracle - giving his all to provide a month-long transformative ranch and wilderness summer camp for any child... tuition free.
This summer 30 lucky campers will make the Sangre de Cristo Youth Ranch Summer Camp their home away from home.
For 30 days they will be beaming out sights, sounds, revelations and stories from camp.
We'll be live on this site on June 21 - the day camp starts. We want you right there with us - doing the deeds, singing the songs, in on the jokes, and up on the peak.
If you know someone who just needs to be a kid outside this summer - let them know Singing River Field Center is the place to be. Day-camp runs 9-4 Monday through Friday with a Thursday night campout starting June 22nd. Tuition is sliding scale. Facilities include: day lodge, a farm and greenhouse, nature trails, swimming and fishing holes...READ MORE
the Light at the End
During the last week of school most students are just biding their time, watching movies and eating junk food in class, playing hooky, yearning for summer break... At Roots & Wings Community School, Passage is a time for deep reflection, relaxation, celebration, friendship and fun - this is what the most important week of the year looks like:
Students Shine on Earth Day
Joan Long and Claire Cote increase ridership on NCRTD (free blue bus) public transit with youth created artwork
On April 22 – Earth Day, there was a full house at OCHO Art + Event Space in Questa. Bursting with youth creativity, color and light, the “Luz es Vida Earth Day Youth Performance Café” was full to capacity in more ways than one! Five large, brightly painted banners as well as some wonderful smaller works greeted guests as they entered the gallery space . Each one reflected the “Luz es Vida – Light is Life” theme in its own unique way through the creativity of the many youth hands (over 220!) that worked on them...READ MORE
Snow Day
Kyle Totman, Alex Keltner, and Cade Harris stand tall in their newly dug quinzee while instructor Scott Laidlaw inspects
Syd Slater studies the snowpack depth
Everybody loves a snow-day! For students at Roots & Wings Community School, a public charter school in Questa, the term snow day has new meaning. On the morning of March 2nd, with the much of the county still digging out from under a record snowfall - most area students were hoping to have the day off. Meanwhile, middle scholars at RWCS were up early and busy packing up with classmates to head out into the snow for an epic adventure...READ MORE
Roots & Wings students head out to school in Bull of the Woods pasture in the newly protected Columbine Hondo Wilderness