Cowboy
Camp
Howdy Folks, Lori and I are glad you stopped by to check out Cowboy Camp. Our Cowboy Camp is a 3 day 2 night live-in experience giving people the opportunity to steep themselves in cowboy culture, some traditional, some contemporary, but all cowboy. Our programming is designed to teach respect, responsibility, personal accountability, work ethic, and stewardship, and it is all done through the experience of learning cowboying skills. As you preview our Cowboy Camp, please do not be mislead, this is not a modern day rodeo school. This is ranch cowboying.
Youth and Adult Camps
This is a three-day weekend experience for youth and adults. During your amazing stay at cowboy camp you will learn basic horsemanship; tack identification and use; how to crease your own cowboy hat; how to move cattle on horse back after determining the feeding needs of cattle; cattle branding; and basic cattle husbandry and health. You will also learn how to pack and lead a pack horse from outfitter and western states guide Tom Cable. One night you will have the opportunity to camp out in bedrolls under the moon-lit sky and listen to the katy-dids, peepers, and coyotes. Last, but definitely not least, you will have the opportunity to partake in an old-fashioned cowboy worship service on Sunday morning, not to mention an afternoon that includes hand cranking homemade ice cream.
High
school camps are for students,
ages 14 through 18, while adult camps
begin after high school graduation
through ??? Our three day camp is all
inclusive, room, board and tuition.
The buckaroos will stay in our bunkhouse
on the farm and eat at our cook house
outside
the main farm house. Our facilities
include a heated and air conditioned bunk
house complete with running water, a
heated men’s and women’s shower house
and latrine, and a horse stable modeled
after the stable at the 6666 Ranch of Texas.
Our
outdoor horse facilities include a
large 60 foot solid board round coral
surrounded by a custom-designed cattle
working facility. To the east of the
round corral is our 100’ x 200’ corral
and roping arena.
Our beautiful homestead farm is a
part of the over 500 acres we have
access to, nestled in the beautiful
Appalachian hills in the corner of
Muskingum, Coshocton and Guernsey
Counties. We raise Texas Longhorn
cows that we cross-breed to proven
Angus bulls giving our cattle herd
a unique and wide range of marketing
options, from grass-fed-and- finished,
to organic grain-fed freezer beef,
to roping steers for area cowboys.
If this doesn’t get you excited, you better check your pulse because you might be dead. This is not reality TV or anything like it. This experience is on a real operational farm that takes real cowboys to work. Don’t let the word “farm” confuse you. MorroWood Farms is a lot more of a ranch than many ranches; but we don’t feel like there are any REAL Ranches east of the Mississippi. Since ranchers and farmers are both called by God himself to be stewards of the land, I guess the title really doesn’t matter.
We invite you to make reservations now for the summer of 2007, 2008, or 2009. Our camp structure is easy: we host a camp every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from April through October. The cost is $250 per person. Each weekend camp will be held for a minimum of three cowboys to a maximum of six. When you’re done, if it wasn’t worth your time, we will give you back our net profit as long as you can tell us why it was a waste of your time. We would like to note that you can only book to come to camp three weekends a month, the fourth weekend in a month we donate all of our facilities to Cool Springs retreat to use free of charge so they can host young mens mentoring programs for young men in our community. This is our way of sharing with others what God has blessed us with.
Family Camp
Currently we are entertaining the idea of booking families for some of the available weekends instead of individuals; so please ask us if you are interested in bringing the whole family.
FFA Officer Training Weekends
We are currently taking reservations for officer training weekends on an “as requested” basis. David Morrow, founder of MorroWood Farms Ltd. is an accomplished Vocational Agriculture teacher and 6 year FFA Advisor who chose to leave the classroom to pursue his “first loves” of faith, family and farming in a full-time capacity. However, before he left teaching, he and his officers created an innovative model for developing successful programs of activities that meet national chapter application standards. Using his Cowboy Camp facilities and knowledge of what it takes to create a successful POA, he and his mom, Dr. Linda Morrow who is a teacher educator and educational trainer/facilitator, will lead you through a memorable and productive goal setting, team building week-end that will definitely be worth your time. We are currently taking reservations for FFA officer training weekends as early as fall, 2006. Please call or e-mail for more information and details.
Please Contact Us with any and all Questions
David & Lori Morrow
68282 Cool Springs Road New Concord, Ohio 43762 Phone 740-255-0440 Fax 740-435-0816
email david@morrowoodfarms.com
"I am crucified with Christ , therefore it is no longer I but Christ who lives within me. "
-Galatians 2:20-