We call it "growing children.” JRC is dedicated to enriching children’s lives through working and playing together. Our atmosphere celebrates the individual, helps campers learn to get out of their comfort zones and take acceptable risks, all while learning and living in a self-sustainable community. JRC’s staff exemplifies core values of honesty, self-respect, and respect for others. We believe strongly in self-sufficiency. Our pace of life is connected with the sunshine of each day and we celebrate and create life's happenings. Growing our own food, tending the animals, playing, and working together, all help to develop a caring community where each person is an important part of the whole. Campers know they are contributing to fresh bread for dinner when they gather wood for the outdoor oven. In today's high-tech society, it is rare to sleep outside, gather eggs, and pitch hay to calves. Here at camp, this wholesome lifestyle continues from generation to generation. Campers choose several times daily from activities announced to them by staff members. Typically, there are between 12 and 15 activities announced at any given activity period. If 3 campers are interested in participating in an activity, in most cases that activity happens.