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Heartland Farm RR 1, Box 37, Pawnee Rock, KS 67567 620-923-4585 or 620-786-0865 Fax: 620-792-1746 |
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Heartland Farm’s Summer Youth Camp!
This annual three-day youth camp in early June is a time to share with nature, make new friends, join in prayer, and have a good time. Participants make items like sand candles, do farm chores like harvesting garlic, go swimming, learn about the environment, and learn about farm animals like alpacas. Read about the 2007 Summer Youth Camp below. |
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Homemade Solar Ovens and Banana Boats? Thank Heavens for the Sun! |
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With a basic understanding of solar energy, and access to simple materials such as cardboard, aluminum foil, and saran wrap, each camper was able to build a personal solar cooking oven that could reach over 100°F inside! This simple solar box cooks because the interior of the box is heated by the energy of the sun. Sunlight, both direct and reflected, enters the solar box through the saran covered top. It turns to heat energy when it is absorbed by the dark materials inside. This heat input causes the temperature inside the solar box cooker to rise until the heat loss of the cooker is equal to the solar heat gain. |
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What do you get when you add a little bit of newspaper, black construction paper, foil and saran wrap to a cardboard box? Why, a homemade solar oven fit for cooking the best banana boats in this part of Kansas . . . unless of course you don’t have any sun! This was just one of the lessons that eight campers learned recently at the Peace Camp sponsored by Heartland Farm on June 12 - 14. |
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Add a few banana boats—peeled and split bananas stuffed with marshmallows and chocolate chips—and you have a recipe for environmental education and gooey delicious fun. There’s one small problem. As the campers took shelter from the rain on their first night at the farm, it was questionable about whether there would be any sun! But as the smiling faces attest, there was just enough. And so we say, thank heavens for the sun! |
