We have an awesome community at Appel Farm! Get to know our campers, alumni, staff, and parents!

Get involved! Click on your link, below, answer the questions, and look for yourself on our Welcome Wednesday blog sometime soon!

Return Camper       New Camper      Alumni       Staff       Parent

And, now, introducing…

Return Camper Sarah Sullivan, age 12, from Glen Ridge, NJ, USA has been coming to Appel Farm for 4 years, and is coming to Second Session this summer!

• What are your favorite Majors or Minors? Improv and Ceramics (Yeah clay!)
• What is one of your favorite things about Appel Farm? Probably the people. We’re all pretty chill.
• What is one thing your camp friends don’t know about you? I have an obsession with cats.
• What is something that you are proud you’ve done this year since camp? I started taking wheel throwing classes outside of camp.

Return Camper Alex Bygrave, age 16, from Exton, PA, USA has been coming to Appel Farm for 2 years, and we hope he will return this summer!

• What are your favorite Majors or Minors? Theater Performance and Creative Writing
• What is one of your favorite things about Appel Farm? The people, man. The people you meet are why you make all the awesome memories you take home with you.
• What is one thing your camp friends don’t know about you? Can’t stand dramatic theater. Which is weird because I’ve been in so many of those.
• What is something that you are proud you’ve done this year since camp? I’ve been working on my book, the inspiration for which came while I was at my first year of Appel Farm. And I’m almost done

Alumna Amy Zipkin, from Wynnewood, PA, USA, was a camper from 2000-2006.

• What is one of your favorite things about Appel Farm? Everyone is friendly and campers are free to express themselves.
• What is one thing you learned at camp that you use in your life today? Problem-solving skills
• How are the arts incorporated into your life now? I do theatre and art activities with the children I teach.