Seven days without a screen.
A lifetime of knowing the earth.
Once a year, during summer holidays, Greenaffair runs a week-long nature and soil camp for teenagers. No phones. No devices. No schedule built around entertainment. Seven days of growing food, composting, cooking, walking in nature, working with mud and clay, and writing in a journal. Teenagers arrive as users of the world. They leave as participants in it.
Seven days.
Seven encounters with the real.
Each day has its own character and its own activity. Each day builds on the one before. By Day 7 the teenager who arrived is not the same as the one who leaves — not because anything dramatic happened, but because seven consecutive days of paying attention to the living world does something that nothing else quite replicates.
Arrival. First soil encounter. We put our hands in the earth before we say hello.
Growing from seed. What a seed needs. What it knows before we teach it anything.
Composting and the circle. Food scraps become soil. Soil becomes food. Nothing is wasted.
Nature walk and identification. Forty plants within walking distance. We learn to see what was always there.
Cooking from the garden. We harvest. We wash in cold water. We cook simply. We eat together.
Mud, clay and making. Sensory work. The hands know things the screen will never teach.
Journaling and departure. What changed. What they will carry back. What the earth gave them.
What a week in the soil
does to a teenager.
Teenagers spend an average of eight hours a day looking at screens. In the same time, they touch the natural world for fewer than fifteen minutes. This week reverses that ratio. The effects — on attention, on mood, on the sense of self — are not subtle.
No amount of nature documentary or classroom lesson does what a week of actual soil, actual plants, and actual hands-in-earth does. The body records this. It becomes a reference point that teenagers carry for the rest of their lives.
This is the unexpected outcome that parents report most consistently. Teenagers arrive uncertain, perform, and leave knowing they can grow food, cook it, identify a plant, and spend seven days without a phone. The confidence is specific. It is earned. It lasts.
Once a year.
Register your interest now.
The camp runs once a year during summer holidays — typically May or June. Location changes each year. Fees depend on location and are shared when dates are announced. Numbers are capped at 25 participants.
We notify registered families first when dates and location are announced — typically 8 weeks before the camp.
What families
ask us first.
Ages 12 to 16. This is intentional — teenagers, not young children. Old enough to reflect on what they are experiencing, young enough to be genuinely changed by it. Old enough to journal, young enough to play in mud without self-consciousness.
Yes. From arrival to departure, devices are handed in. This is non-negotiable and it is explained to participants and parents before registration. Teenagers are told — not asked. In our experience, by Day 3, nobody misses their phone. By Day 7, most do not want to go back.
Location varies each year depending on the host farm and region. We announce the location approximately six weeks before the camp. All camps are on working farms or in natural settings with access to soil, water, and growing space.
Once a year, during the summer holidays — typically May or June. Exact dates are announced approximately eight weeks in advance. Register your interest now to be notified first.
Clothes that can get muddy. Closed shoes. A notebook. Nothing else is needed. We provide all tools, materials, and food. We specifically ask that nothing electronic be brought.
The camp is supervised throughout. Accommodation and meals are included. We provide a full safety briefing to parents before the camp and daily updates during it. Teenagers have traveled to our camps from across India.
We intentionally keep numbers small — between 15 and 25 participants. Large enough for community, small enough for individual attention.