Wellness theme trip for NFCMS
On May 18th we hosted the Upper Elementary as a culmination of their service learning project. This year they worked in class on nutrition lessons [...]
Hotchkiss K8- Last week of school crazies…
Naomi transplanting tomatoes with the 1st graders. We hosted 35 1st graders on May 21st and boy you could feel that it was [...]
2012 Interns and other farm happenings…
Snapped after a field trip. I told them they looked like Charlie's Angels, and I caught them all laughing. Probably wondering, "Charlie's what...?" [...]
Spring Field Preparations
Mark and Naomi have been working hard in the field to prepare for our 2012 season programs- and last Thursday I finally got out there, [...]
Hotchkiss K8 1st Grade
Last week we seeded tomatoes with the Hotchkiss K8 1st graders. Last fall the students saved these seeds themselves in their classroom, well- with a [...]
Garnet Mesa 5th Grade
On March 27th we had the opportunity to work with the four 5th grade classes at Garnet Mesa Elementary. We studied soil structure [...]
On the ground at Thistle Whistle Farm
Last Friday was the first field trip for 2012. North Fork Community Montessori School upper and lower elementary classes (47 students) came out to Thistle [...]
Garnet Mesa 4th Grade
Last Thursday I spent the morning in the new greenhouse at Garnet Mesa Elementary. It is thrilling to work with classrooms that have buy-in and [...]
Our Educational Greenhouse
Our educational greenhouse is located at Thistle Whistle Farm in Hotchkiss. This past winter we decided to take the plunge to help fund a propagation [...]
Harvest at The Sauce Plot
Last week at the Sauce Plot we learned a bit about how our bodies process the food we eat, then we created an art project [...]