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On october 28th mark and i visited with the hotchkiss 1st grade classes for a seed saving activity.i wish that brought the camera!after reading a [...]

On october 21st we hosted 100 kindergartners at 2 local farms to learn about food and farming! it was a beautiful day; the weather was [...]

last weekend was the north fork valley mountain harvest festival. check out: mountainharvestfestival.coman incredible celebration showcasing the bounty of our region during the most wonderful [...]

last week mark and i visited the 2nd graders at the K-8 in hotchkiss. we brought just a small sample of the tomatoes that they [...]

Thistle Whistle Farm and The Kampe Foundation have been hosting the NFCMS summer science camp on tuesday afternoons. the farm is a great place for [...]

just a short post of some pictures of our completed yurt classroom! everyone has responded so positively to this beautiful classroom space. we are very [...]

we may finish up our on-farm classroom this week. we've been working on this one for months, thru the busiest time of the year in [...]

our last spring class with the montessori 2nd/3rd graders was a lot of fun. after tending to the raised bed gardens for weeks, we got [...]

on may 1 the kampe foundation joined with US forest service and the colorado department of  wildlife to host the hotchkiss K8 3rd graders in [...]

we finalized two of our 6 week growing experiments in the biodome last week. the nfcms 2nd/3rd graders got a hands on lesson on the [...]