Melanie Douty-Snipes

Director of Education
Camp Director

Melanie Douty-Snipes has been an experiential educator for over 30 years springing from a degree in environmental education from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. She was an instructor at several outdoor education centers in the U.S.working with a variety of nature study approaches,facilitating low and high ropes course elements and team building, She spent 9 years as coordinator of the Middle School Friends Program incorporating Quaker testimonies of peace, simplicity, integrity, sustainability, community and equality into 58 weekend retreats. Over the past 15 years at Snipes Farm she has developed garden, nutrition, farm and environmental education lessons for farm-to-school and school-to-farm programs for local schools. She and her team have helped to install school gardens, lead farm field trips three seasons each year, have provided hundreds of after school cooking lessons and tied a seed-to-fork curriculum to classroom lessons as well. She co-founded Snipes Farm Day Camp in 2008 which has grown into one of the finest camps in Bucks County and one of the greatest blessings to Snipes Farm.