Late season garden club
For the past couple weeks a group of enthusiastic students from the Hotchkiss K8 have met for a late season garden club. It's been a [...]
Free Concert Series
We are thrilled to be the presenting sponsor for Pickin' in the Park - now the ninth year! Partnering with Rob Miller at Pickin' Productions [...]
8th Generation
This May marked the 8th generation of tomato seeds saved and planted with the Hotchkiss K8 1st graders through our program! Tomatoes harvested from these [...]
Sibling Rivalry
The 6th science classes had a great time mixing soil and planting corn on May 2. As a part of their study of ancient people, [...]
Hands-on measuring lesson
On May 12 we worked with HK8's two 1st grade classrooms for a hand-om measuring lesson with onions! The students learned about standard and non-standard [...]
Avalanche Goat Dairy
On May 10 we partnered with Avalanche Goat Dairy to host over 40 kindergartens for a morning of goat wrangling and educational activities. Children toured [...]
2016 Yurt-Classroom
Our little yurt classroom has been up and in use at Thistle Whistle for FIVE years now! Mark and I met today and discussed our [...]
Fun Zone!
For the eighth year the Kampe Foundation has hosted the Kid's Area during Mountain Harvest Festival weekend in Paonia. It is pretty much the Fun [...]
Building Life Skills
This is the second week we've partnered with teachers at the Hotchkiss K8 to work with students building life skills. The students have been using [...]
Families on the Farm 2015
We had a great program and the most diverse group of participants yet this season, coming from Mexico, China, India and Myanmar. Our dedicated team [...]