HVC Green Page

Hidden Valley Camp is a participant in the Maine Youth Camp Sustainability Initiative. Many Maine camps are striving to reduce their carbon imprints and use aspects of the camp experience to teach children about the many ways in which individuals and groups can conserve and recycle resources. At HVC...

• Our dining hall limits food waste and deliver what is left to a local pig farm.
• Campers and staff recycle paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, and metals. (Our town has one of the highest recycling rates in the State.)
• Campers have participated in many environmental community service projects.
• We have installed compact flourescents in all light sockets.
• Our two organic gardens use HVC compost and produce some of the vegetables used for our camp salads.
• We've installed motion sensitive lighting at night.
• Lumber for construction at camp is harvested and milled right here at HVC.
• We purchase local produce where possible.
• Our HVC shopping bags mean that camp shoppers do not need to use plastic ones when procuring supplies.
• Peter's participation on the local Planning Board has us deeply involved in local land use and preservation issues.
  

	Outreach- Outdoors particpants assist local farmers.		Timbuktu, our new painting studio, was constructed using lumber milled from hemlock and pine trees harvested on camp property.
	HVC Community teens have planted over 2,000 tress at Acadia and built a picnic area on local conservation land.		Our pool is warmed via solar panels that heat water passively in 14 miles of tubing on this solar field.

Hidden Valley’s Community Service group – Outreach- Outdoors helps a local homesteader with an addition to his off-the- grid home

Our swimming pool is solar heated.  Take a look here at our solar field.