When walking through Sticks and Stones Farm at 201 Huntingtown Road, one can find towering forests, quiet cabins, and for the week of July 11, a village of handmade stick forts.twocoyotes.org or 203-843-3112.

The Two Coyotes Wilderness School offered a camp focused on fort and shelter building that week at Sticks and Stones Farm, where the campers learned how to create their own structures from materials found in nature.

The camp's manager, Karen Pettinelli, said campers were creative in how they use materials they found to build different structures and "make their own universe."

Camper Max Verna said it was  fun building forts. He added that he used materials from sticks to moss and leaves in his creations.

"It's like a little village," Max said about the collection of at least five structures he had made with a group of campers.

The younsters all treated the space as a village, pointing out certain forts as the "town hall" and the "hospital." They even elected one of their own as the "mayor."

Two Coyotes Wilderness School is a nonprofit organization "dedicated to [nurturing] healthy, whole human beings through building self-awareness, community, and connecting people to nature," according to its website, twocoyotes.org. It offers programs year-round, and summer camp programs are offered at its locations in Newtown, Granby, and New Fairfield.

More information about Two Coyotes Wilderness School, including information on how to register for upcoming camps and programs, is available at